Monday, October 12, 2009

12-Oct-2009 AM clippings

Enjoy:

Air New Zealnd's systems take a hit, possibly beacuse of a power failure. The truth will out:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10602700

In America, T-Mobile manages to lose almost all the data that users of the Microsoft/Danger system, urging users to keep phones charged:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=5798

Red Hat hosts an Asia-Pacific "boot camp" for teachers doing Open Source courses in institutes of higher learning. Based in Singapore:
http://www.prwire.com.au/pr/14922/red-hat-hosts-first-dedicated-boot-camp-for-open-source-teachers

Amazon drops the prices of their Kindle ebook readers and "goes global." Global doesn't include New Zealand, of course...:
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/173270/amazon_drops_kindle_price_takes_it_global.html

South Koreans discover what happens when your country is a Microsoft monoculture.exe:
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2009/09/123_52401.html

In Germany at least, illegal downloads seem to be far more profitable for artists than legal ones thanks to good ol' extortion:
http://torrentfreak.com/illegal-downloads-150x-more-profitable-than-legal-sales-091009/

And finally. An American wins the Golden Spurtle for porridge-making in Scotland, attended by 1,000 hungry Scots on World Porridge Day:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8299671.stm

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