Wednesday, January 14, 2009

14-Jan-2009 PM clippings

Enjoy:

NZ Telecom's Ferrit online shopping site disappears down a rabbit hole. Telecom says it will redeploy staff elsewhere internally:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4816111a13.html

The Internet Explorer market share continues to shrink, according to the latest figures from Market Share:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=1

The New York Times takes in interest in Ubuntu and it's potential to make Open Source desktops ubiquitous:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/business/11ubuntu.html?_r=2

Court battles rage over whether Pystar is allowed to resell legit OS X installations on its Mac clones:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9125818

Microsoft have taken the necessary steps to ensure a a good download experience of Winows 7 beta in the future. El Reg translates:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/11/windows_7_public_beta_live/

The Sony DSC-G3 gamera is a 10 megapixel device sporting WiFi and otspots. It also happens to run Linux:
http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/sony_dsc_g3_camera_has_wi_fi_and_linux

And finally. Coil-free MRI scanners are now capable of resolving objects as small as a single virus particle - 4 nanometers:
http://techfragments.com/news/240/Science/IBM_Creates_3D_MRI_With_100_Million_Times_Finer_Resolution.html

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