Friday, May 8, 2009

08-May-2009 AM clippings

Enjoy:

Telecom NZ and Vodafone reach agreement as Telecom announced a 2 week delay in the launch of their 3G service while they fit more filters:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/telecoms-it-media/2391180/Vodafone-Telecom-settle

The Pirate Bay becomes Sweden's 3rd largest political party and is steering a course for a seat in the European parliament:
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-3rd-largest-political-party-in-sweden-090506/

The EU casts a final vote on an ammendment that prevents EU members from implementing 3-strikes-for-disconnection laws:
http://torrentfreak.com/eu-rejects-three-strikes-legislation-for-good-090506/

OpenOffice 3.1 is out with lots of new features. Including on-screen anti-aliasing at last:
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.1/index.html

The Mimio UM-710 is a 7" screen that plus into your laptop to give you that extra bit of screen space without taking over the desk:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/2393032/Mini-monitors-give-more-screen-space

And finally. Here's a nice project for the weekend; make your own LED from little bits of silicon carbide:
http://www.dlip.de/?p=99

Vik :v) Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. http://diamondage.co.nz

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