SSL CA Certificates may not be worth the paper they're printed on, as governments and CAs have subverted the system to allow spying:
http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2010/03/govts-certificate-authorities-conspire-to-spy-on-ssl-users.ars
The jury finds for Novell in the SCO vs Novell case. Now SCO have no leg to stand on vs Red Hat & IBM, so look likely to go down the tube:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100330152829622
Microsoft and Ford gang up to produce smart-charging electric cars. But do you want to have to buy Microsoft-compatible batteries?:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/3539961/Ford-Microsoft-team-up-on-electric-cars
"Prefab" scans a computer's virtual screen to look for buttons, boxes etc and then overwrites them to change the app's apparent behaviour:
http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=56581
Royalties & cross-licencing sorted out for the OLPC/Pixel Qi screens that are daylight-readable and low-power. Coming to OEMs near you:
http://laptop.org/en/utility/press/release20100330.shtml
Google now blocked in China. No surprise, but good to see them making a stand against cnesorship. Who will be next?:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1262294/Google-services-blocked-China.html
Seton Hill University of Pennsylvania will be locking every full-time student into an iPad:
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2010/03/30/university-give-students-ipad-suddenly-feel-thirst-knowledge/
And finally. Tweeting undewear to give notification to caregivers when their charges are a wee bit damp:
http://www.simavita.com/pages/simsystem/simsystem_technology/default.asp
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