451 Group announces that not only is Linux ready for the enterprise,
community-driven support is good enough too. Bad news for Red Hat:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080808-ubuntu-community-distros-are-ready-for-enterprise-adoption.html
The popular Arduino microcontroller board now has a compatible big
brother - the Sanguino. Open Source, more everything, and cheaper:
http://www.sanguino.cc/
Mobile phones used to safely land an aeroplane after all the plane's
electronics drop out. By SMS yet:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0807/1218047756406.html
UK's number one single now determined by download sales alone:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7552669.stm
Transmeta licences their low-power CPU designs to Nvidia:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2327527,00.asp
And finally. How getting you body to recycle its own internal waste
seems to make your organs last longer:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14503-how-recycling-could-keep-your-organs-young.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news1_head_dn14503
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.
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