The London Stock Exchange goes offline for 7 hours during frantic
trading. Suspicion is its .NET-based system choked with high volumes:
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSL01084620080908
Mark Shuttleworth announces Ubuntu 9.04 will be called Jaunty
Jackelope, and will have as its mascot a warrior rabbit:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080908-ubuntu-9-04-to-be-called-jaunty-jackalope.html
Google to digitise millions of old newspapers and make them available
online. The hard part is sorting out who gets the advert revenue:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10035172-93.html
Tech Report reviews Intel's entry into the SSD market, and it's fast:
http://techreport.com/articles.x/15433
A sneak peek at OpenOffice 3.0, with link to installables:
http://www.tgdaily.com/html_tmp/content-view-39220-97.html
A new variant on the RepRap 3D printer is capable of printing objects
from files on an SD card without the use of a PC to drive it:
http://builders.reprap.org/2008/09/pic24-printing-from-sd-card.html
Plastic Logic is introducing a full-size ebook reader that will work
with existing document formats:
http://www.tgdaily.com/html_tmp/content-view-39220-97.html
And finally. Here's a look into the toolbox needed when you go up
to repair the Hubble Space Telescope:
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/09/1367343.aspx
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.