Firefox 3.0 beta 1 is out. It's beta but looks to be loading and
running faster, all in the spirit of the original Firefox:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=958
Cory Doctorow writes on the increasing problems of internet autoimmune
syndrome; how systems cut you off instantly and it takes ages to cancel:
http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=479&doc_id=139358&
The owners of the Atari brand from the company that bought Atari from the
merged company who bought Atari from the original split Atari are hurting:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/20/atari_q2_results_substantial_doubt/
New Zealand Communications (formerly Econet) may launch a GSM mobile
phone network next year:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10477280
Multiple vulnerabilities found in the .FLAC codec libraries, due to
improperly handling metadata values from malformed files:
http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20071115.html
And finally. Japanese researchers including Kyoto University have
turned human skin cells into stem cells and then to heart cells:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7101834.st
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.