Monday, November 3, 2008

03-Nov-2008 PM clippings

Enjoy:

First America, now in the UK. Games companies start threatening people over non-existent illegal software downloads for money:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7697898.stm

Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Toshiba recall another 100,000 Sony laptop batteries. 17 reports of fires so far. Details here:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/desktop/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=211800559

The German Foreign Ministry is migrating all of its 11,000 desktops to GNU/Linux & Open Source applications, drastically reducing costs:
http://www.osor.eu/news/de-foreign-ministry-cost-of-open-source-desktop-maintenance-is-by-far-the-lowest

Google get to patch their first security hole in the Android mobile phone operating system now it is in the wild:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10080714-94.html

And finally. Neurologists find the molecule that moves nerual receptors toward synapses. It makes your memories:
http://www.dukehealth.org/HealthLibrary/News/scientists_identify_machinery_that_helps_make_memories

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