Wednesday, August 27, 2008

27-Aug-2008 PM clippings

Enjoy:

The NZ Green Party calls for excluding software from being patented
in NZ and the establishment of a free municipal WiFi network:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4668175a28.html

Mac clone manufacturer Pystar is now counter-suing Apple under
various anti-trust acts claiming anticompetitive practices:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10026033-37.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

One of the few free iPhone apps - a Tetris clone - is pulled from the
iTunes App Store following legal threats from The Tetris Company:
http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2008/08/26/free-tetris-clone-pulled-from-itunes-app-store

The Google Android OS will initially not be shipping with a
Bluetooth API or the GTalkService API for talking to Google apps:
http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/08/26/google-drops-bluetooth-gtalkservice-apis-android-1-0

And finally. Google insights allows the comparison of all sorts of
dodgy data, such as Cubans looking for Linux more often than sex:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10024530-16.html

Vik :v)
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