Microsoft is awarded its 10,000th patent, apparently a small-scale reinvention of geotagging:
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/02/microsoft-receives-its-10000th-us-patent.ars
NZ Government reportedly to make electric cars exempt from road user charges to increase adoption:
http://www.environmental-expert.com/resultEachPressRelease.aspx?cid=28058&codi=45116&idproducttype=8
The new NZ Government broadband scheme may take 10 years to roll out fibre to much of New Zealand:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10556284
The Authors Guild in the US claim that by buying an e-book you do not get the right to read the book out aloud. Nor does your Kindle:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123419309890963869.html
Did Google remove multi-touch to please Apple? But Android is Open Source, and the independent coders are putting it back in:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/11/google_obeys_apple/ http://www.trustedreviews.com/mobile-devices/news/2008/11/18/Android-Multi-touch-Capable--Just-Disabled/p1
Rubik's Cube - made from 6 touchscreens:
http://i.gizmodo.com/5150935/rubiks-touchcube-is-the-worlds-first-touchscreen-rubiks-cube
And finally. If you're going to eat an endangered species, don't put the barbie photos and gory details up on Facebook:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10556244
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