Oracle to continue development of Solaris, but not OpenSolaris:
http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3897706/Oracle-Details-Upcoming-Solaris-11-Release.htm
Argentina's President starts their 60,000-student deployment of OLPC computers. Bolivia may follow suit:
http://blog.laptop.org/2010/08/05/argentina-embraces-olpc-supports-bolivia/
The WikiReader palm-size Wikipedia reader is now available in 14 languages. Soon to add the Project Gutenberg archives:
http://www.gizmag.com/wikireader-goes-multilingual/16004/
Rather than display sensible error diagnostics that anyone can read, LG appliances will now beep R2D2-like at a calltaker on the phone:
http://www.gizmag.com/lg-smartdiagnosis/16000/
Support for Australia's universal internet filter wanes as parties realise that education is the best way to protect the kids:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/11/australia_conroy_lonely/
And finally. Why have we been stuck with the QWERTY layout since the 1870's, even though we're now using touchscreens half the time:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10925456
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