Open Source in government is about to get an airing in Wellington, as international govt departments meet for a conference on FLOSS:
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/30403/1090/
Microsoft pulls Office from its online stores in complaince with a US court order finding it in breach of a patent on XML use:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9143818/Microsoft_pulls_Office_from_own_online_store?taxonomyId=146
Firefox 3.6 release candidate is out. Improvements include Open web font use, accelerometer interfacing and a new theme engine:
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/01/firefox-36-almost-ready-release-candidate-available.ars
Feedback from the Nexus One users so far is mostly critical of the technical support side of things:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8451473.stm
Google agrees to stop scanning Chinese books, and starts trying to hammer out an agreement with the authors:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10432212-265.html
A new approach to computing uses synthetic neurons as "wetware":
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8452196.stm
And finally. A drag bike arrives in NZ that does 0-100 in less than a second, the quarter mile in 7.8s and all on 14c worth of electricity:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1001/S00054.htm http://blog.greenstage.co.nz/2010/01/killacycle-tour-updates.html
Vik :v) Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. http://diamondage.co.nz
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