The $100 laptop is still on track, with 15 million units being suggested for a
trial run - and you wind it up for power:
http://beta.news.com.com/The+100+laptop+moves+closer+to+reality/2100-1044_3-5884683.html?tag=nefd.lede
Anykey publish a GreaseMonkey script for Firefox web browser users that allows
archived NZ Herald stories to be viewed from their search engine:
http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
http://anykey.net.nz/free.php
SpreadFirefox.com gets taken down by hackers through a breach in their Wiki
engine:
http://beta.news.com.com/Firefox+promo+site+taken+down+by+hackers/2100-7349_3-5888502.html?
While Google hits the headlines with free WiFi in the US, in New Zealand we have
our own free WiFi spot. At Ground Zero in cosmopolitan Whakatane:
http://klixo.net.nz/story/story.105949.html
The Webmin remote maintenance tool for Linux gets a new look with interactive
menus and graphics from the KDE icon set:
http://www.stress-free.co.nz/content/view/141/2/
UC Riverside develops a molecule called 9,10-dithioanthracene that walks in
straight lines on copper, suggesting molecular Turing Machines may be possible:
http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=1166
And finally. Recall how much you love IVR automated telephone secretaries? Well
now there's a 3D virtual receptionist desk called HAKURA:
http://www.i4u.com/article4326.html
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.