Vodafone calls for an injunction on Telecom's new 3G network for interference of signals. Says it is happy to service T'com users:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10570694
How many desktop Linux users are there? Net Applications' 1%? W3Counter's 2.16%? Practical Technology's AWStats 29.9%? http://blogs.computerworld.com/how_many_desktop_linux_users
Microsoft almost done with its world-wide layoff of 5,000 employees:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/2387924/Microsoft-moves-to-lay-off-5-000
On a slightly smaller scale, NZ ISP Orcon to cut 23 of the company's 144 staff:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10570492
UK-based Micro Focus to buy Borland for approximaely US$75 million in cash:
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUSL657306220090506
Some x86 processors won't be capable of running "XP Mode" on Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 operating system:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/164437/windows_7s_xp_mode_wont_run_on_some_cpus.html
Amazon to ship the Kindle DX ebook reader in the Northern summer. THis one has a 9.7" screen and 3.3GiB of storage:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-posted-early-489/
Caustic launches a US$4,000 real-time raytracing processor card, essentially compatible with OpenGL. Uses a 100MHz FPGA and one DDR2:
http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/04/caustic-graphics-launches-real-time-ray-tracing-platform.ars
And finally. Could we finally have detected the existence of magnetic monopoles? It's possible they may be the Dark Matter in the universe:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227071.100-hunting-the-mysterious-monopole.html
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