The ONYAs award process for New Zealand's best websites and applications gets underway:
http://www.onyas.org.nz/index.php
California's Governator plans to create Open Source digital textbooks for high school maths and science classes to cut costs:
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/05/california-launches-open-source-digital-textbook-initiative.ars
Looks like the Microsoft Office ODF support is as weak as feared. The NZOSS seems to have a good round-up of tests and reviews:
http://nzoss.org.nz/news/2009/microsoft-odf-plugin
The NZ Herald looks at the great HDMI cable scam, where highly-priced premium cables deliver the same content as budget ones:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10571214
When the RIAA said they were discontinuing lawsuits in August 2008 it seems they were in fact lying:
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/#41594001853414387
Google's Andriod OS for mobile phones is now at 1.5 - updates are being rolled out to T-Mobile users automagically. The improvements:
http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/top-10-features-youll-love-about-android-15-2009058/
How to use electric cars and wifi to provide a free, open data and electricity network, saving users money. Companies will hate it:
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/05/the-grid-our-cars-and-the-internet-one-idea-to-link-them-all/
And finally. Eight ways to boost your creativity. Perhaps after all that you can think ogf a ninth? Yes, beer is on the menu:
http://www.newscientist.com/special/creativity
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