The NZ Commerce commission finally orders telcos to implement number
portability, catching up with the rest of the world:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10343458
The OSDL rejected Microsoft's comparison study offer on the basis of flawed
interpretations of results in Microsoft's "Get the Facts" advertising campaign:
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1119468,00.html
Cybersource CEO Con Zymaris lays out in plain terms what Microsoft should do if
they are serious about cooperating with the OSDL. Interoperability:
http://www.cybersource.com.au/press/get_real_on_joint_research.html
IBM Publishes its own survey, showing that the TCO of Linux is considerably
lower than Windows. As with other surveys, your milage may vary:
http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=170102340
The State of Massachusetts releases a draft specification for the basis of the
State's policy on acceptable document file formats. They're all Open:
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/42442/index.html
Tablet PC sales are proving to be disappointing this time around as well, with
recent reports suggesting volumes of 1/3 those predicted by Gartner:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1853698,00.asp
New MS IE flaw gives remote attackers control of Windows XP machines running SP2
and IE6 using silent attacks from malicious Web pages:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1854038,00.asp
Apple might be switching to Intel CPUs sometime, but they've ordered PowerPCs
from Freescale through to 2008:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=170100975
Computer climate modelling has, until recently, been unable to model super
greenhouse climates, but one now suggests that's what killed the dinosaurs:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4184110.stm
Argonne National Laboratory produce the first diamond/nanotube composite
materials as dense, thin films:
http://www.anl.gov/Media_Center/News/2005/news050830.html
Cornell University researchers have made nanoscale buckyballs from polystyrene
and DNA, useful for drug delivery and investigating formation processes:
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug05/DNABuckyballs.ws.html
And finally. "Miracle Mice" are discovered that can regenerate severed limbs,
damaged internal organs and nerves, including joints and the optic nerve:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16417002%255E30417,00.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.