HP To start shipping laptops with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed, Also quoting 33%
software savings on Linux use internally:
http://www.tectonic.co.za/viewr.php?id=595
Access purchases the Palm software company Palmsource for US$311.3 million in
cash, with a view to improving its cellphone software:
http://engadget.com/entry/1234000133058053/
The upcoming Windows Vista operating system is to come in 7 flavours:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050910-5298.html
Yahoo are accused of helping Chinese authorities track down a journalist jailed
for "divulging state secrets". Nothing like FBI wiretap laws, of course:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4221538.stm
Apple launch their anticipated iPod phone called Rokr, and a half-thickness iPod
mini design called Nano:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4223938.stm
Bluetooth device allows mobile phones to act as Skype handsets:
http://www.tectonic.co.za/viewr.php?id=595
A beta of the RepRap Open Source fabricator's plastic extrusion head is released
to the public, under the GPL. Eventually this will make other RepRap parts:
http://reprap.org/Downloads/extruder/extruder.html
And finally. Motola the elephant in Thailand gets an artificial leg after having
trod on a landmine:
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/08/28/elephant.leg.ap/
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.