Qualcomm's law suit to stop Nokia selling 3G phones goes through appeal
and the allied patent suits degenerate into the usual American mess:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/23/nokia_qualcomm_lawsuit/
The anonymous mailing of the source for Diebold's election machines,
which rely on "security through obscurity", prompts return to paper:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061023-8055.html
Ubuntu Linux 6.10 "Edgy" is officially released. Free download, 18 months support: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EdgyAnnouncement?highlight=(edgy)
Fon are now handing out free WiFi routers in Austria and Germany,
one per household. They hope to overtake T-Mobile's WiFi network:
http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/fon/germany-and-austria-have-earned-our-trust.html
Taiwan's Quanta Computer to churn out OLPC "$100" laptops in Q2 2007, in
quantities measured in millions:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/DE6E9718F41443C6CC25721100071AFB
http://laptop.media.mit.edu/laptopnews.nsf/latest/news?opendocument=
Dell to launch a sub-US$500 15-inch laptop next month, using AMD Turion
CPUs and an allegedly smaller environmental footprint:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061025-8078.html
Vodafone's Vodem "does not support [VoIP], and can provide no assurance
that currently available access levels may be maintained":
http://www.vodafone.co.nz/pricing_plans/broadband.jsp
Fake Cisco networking gear starts to surface:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/102306counterfeit.html
Adobe Flash Player 9 beta is now available for Linux abusers, both as an
Ubuntu package and generic tarball:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=279990
http://www.adobe.com/go/fp9_update_b1_installer_linuxplugin
And finally. The Internet Explorer team send the Firefox browser team a
cake to celebrate the 2.0 release. No, it wasn't drugged...:
http://oregonstate.edu/~wenzelf/temp/slashdot/fredericiana.htm
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.