Google's Code Search allows anyone to search through code. Those
believing in "security through obscurity" are having kittens:
http://googlewatch.eweek.com/blogs/google_watch/archive/2006/10/05/13648.aspx
Court papers in the SCO case allege that Microsoft discussed backing
Baystar's investment in SCO, but then fired the employee responsible:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2006100801442692
Survey finds that Open Source ocde tends to have only 5 times the bugs of
mission-critical proprietary code such as that in aircarft controls:
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2006/tc20061006_394140.htm?campaign_id=bier_tco.g3a.rss1007
Nokia expects its Symbian 60 OS - and presumably similar offerings from
others - to spread to mid-priced phones next year:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlebusiness.aspx?type=media&storyID=nL05428322&from=business
IBM Releases a new version of Sametime, V.5, with support for Eclipse
plug-ins, VoIP and videoconferencing - and they've opened the source:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/159E17B22165E179CC2571F8001D0E92
And finally. The Ig Nobel Prizes have been given out again, Research
topics include horrible noises, woodpeckers and, er, novel hiccough cures:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10207-ig-nobel-prizes-hail-digital-rectal-massage.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.