Aucklander Peter Calveley stakes on Amazon's "one click" online
shopping system patent and gets the whole thing overturned:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4242736a10.html
The EU settlement forces Microsoft to stop suing patented
Open Source implementations of their protocols and formats:
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/63623,eu-forces-microsoft-to-cage-open-source-patent-dogs.aspx
Updating Vista drivers can apparently cause automatic Vista
deactivation (but pirate copies have this fixed):
http://apcmag.com/vista_activation
New Zealand gets its own slice of YouTube:
http://nz.youtube.com/
South Africa adopts ODF, ASCII text and CSV as their document
standards. They also define what they consider "open":
http://tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1838
Samsung shows off an 8GiB Flash chip made on a 30nm process.
There is talk on combining 16 to make a 128GiB SSD:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7057717.stm
And finally. The strange and beautiful world of Lichtenberg Figues,
or how to make art with an electron beam accelerator:
http://teslamania.delete.org/frames/lichtenbergs.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.