Microsoft's new IE7 still not rated the best browser, but it is closing
the usability gap on its rivals. If only it ran on more platforms:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2033704,00.asp
TelstraClear launches unconstrained broadband, but decides to make it
less useful by denying the use of static IPs:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/3034937A1CD03378CC25720B0023E677
The USB Implementers Forum, 1394, and the Bluetooth SIG have chosen the
WiMedia Alliance's version of UWB technology for wireless USB:
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/communications/0,39044192,61960583,00.htm
All about the Vodem Vodafone 3G broadband USB Modem, or the Huawei E220
as its manufacturers call it. Catchy, eh? Might even work on Linux:
http://www.gsmmobile.co.nz/News/article/sid=1236.html
Yellow Dog to make their Linux distro (previously used on Macs)
available on the Sony PS3. Microsoft declined to respond for Xbox:
http://arstechnica.com/articles/columns/linux/linux-20061018.ars
And finally. Research seems to rule out appreciable layers of water ice
on our moon's poles, but plenty of oxygen is left in the rocks:
http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/mg19225743.300-hopes-for-lunar-ice-melt-away.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.