NZ Telecom puts some TV shows on "Mobile TV" which is being offered free on their XT network until the end of November:
http://www.telecom-media.co.nz/releases_detail.asp?id=3614&page=index
The Australian Defence Force's latest flight simulator runs on a Suse cluster of Opteron servers running OpenGL. It cost A$1.7 million:
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/154262,defence-spends-17m-on-ultimate-linux-flight-simulator.aspx
1150 Free New Zealand ebooks available now, including the Edmonds iconic Cookery Book. 3rd edition:
http://activitypress.com/2009/08/28/looks-like-new-zealand-already-has-its-first-1000-ebooks/
Turnkey Linux offers a variety of specialised configurations based on Ubuntu and all available as a Live CD. Wordpress, wiki, MySql...:
http://www.turnkeylinux.org
Malware now available to record a Skype conversation and deposit it on a remote server for retrieval by the perp:
http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/154401,skype-trojan-can-log-voip-conversations.aspx
Another googlefail, but only 1 hour 45 mins this time:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=219500837
Google might have more trouble with Germany, as the Germans oppose the Google/Authors Guild proposals:
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090901-711989.html
Acer have caught the all-in-one low powered PC bug, and are releasing yet another model - the Veriton Z280G desktop PC. http://www.gizmag.com/acer-veriton-all-in-one-desktop-pc/12647/
Japan's RIBA robot for moving patients around gets a makeover including a teddybear head. Me, I find it kinda scary:
http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=2500
And finally. The technology behind breathalyzers is subverted to test the nostril hair-singing capabilities of flatulence:
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-08/there-scientific-way-measure-fart-smell
Vik :v) Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. http://diamondage.co.nz
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