Microsoft Vista's EULA seems to prohibit selling the PC, more than one
motherboard upgrade and the use of a Virtual Machine to run Vista:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=156
Security Software company McAfee, in the news after objecting to
Microsoft's API restrictions, sacks its president in a stock scandal:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/ABEFDB9DFFCD0D77CC257205000EF64E
Meanwhile, Microsoft does an about-face, and permits security
software vendors deep access to the code again:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/13/AR2006101301280.html
Palm release a new phone, the Treo 680. GSM, 320x320 touchscreen,
Bluetooth SD, VGA camera, edits MS Office docs, and coloured cases:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2028834,00.asp
Wanted: People to hack security on the $100 laptop:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2028789,00.asp
Spam loses its trademark bid on software titles. Mind you, it's the
Spiced Ham company Hormel that lost the bid...:
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20061011/techbits-spam.htm
The first confirmed "spintronic" device incorporating organic molecules
is created in the lab:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/nios-msa101206.php
And finally. What do bored Disney costume fillers do backstage?
Film simulated cartoon orgies of course (Reuters):
http://tinyurl.com/yxepw
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.