Small Business takes a look at the cost of switching to Vista, and
comes up with a potential bill of US$3,250-5,000 per employee:
http://smallbusiness.itworld.com/4383/nls_networking061005/page_1.html
VIA Sets up a solar-powered PC centre in Samoa to offer Internet, word
processing, fax, scanner, printing and copying services to tourists:
http://www.viapc-1.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=444&Itemid=2〈=en
BenQ Offer some nice pics of a flat-surface mobile phone, to cheer up
those people upset at the European branch going down the tube...:
http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2006/10/03/black_box_phone.html
Adding viruses to memory chips makes them go faster. Not the coded ones,
but little bitty organic things that have been coated in platinum:
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10228-happy-snaps-from-a-virusinfested-chip.html
And finally. One dozen really embarrassing moments in the IT world,
collated by Peter Coffee. From downed airliners to poked Pentiums:
http://www.eweek.com/slideshow/0,1206,pg=0&s=700&a=190182,00.asp
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.