Red Hat & 17 other vendors sue over a 14 million Swiss Franc government contract given to Microsoft without public bidding:
http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/red-hat-sues-switzerland-over-microsoft-monopoly-965
Microsoft's government supply deal is slammed at GOVIS, is running behind schedule, and discounts may have all but disappeared:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/813B5F0E4A319412CC2575C0006F561A
Greenpeace NZ start a social website and petition to get New Zealand to sign on to the UN's Copenhagen emissions reductions treaty:
http://www.signon.org.nz
Engadget has some leaked pictures and documents on the new HTC Android phone:
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/05/24/htc-lancaster-is-a-qwerty-slider-with-android-for-atandt/
The non-ineroperable ZigBee protocol for home automation gets Open interoperability - ZigBee Pro, with support from LG & Black & Decker:
http://www.cepro.com/article/has_home_automation_standard_finally_arrived_zigbee_pro_with_control4_as_an/
And finally. Tasers work, but despite the sales pitch nobody is sure exactly what they do to the human body:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/25/taser_mechanism/
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