18-Sep-2008 AM clippings

Enjoy:

Software Freedom Day comes round again on Saturday, with teams around NZ and the world holding events promoting Free and Open software:
http://nzoss.org.nz/news/2008/sofwarefreedomday-events

Opposition to the secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is rising with 100 groups openly voicing their concerns:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080916-100-groups-demand-to-see-secret-anticounterfeiting-treaty.html

Radio New Zealand extends its use of the Free OGG audio format to Media Watch and Morning report after succesful trials:
http://s0.tx.co.nz/at/tep34n864113j191842i277986f2c280148a4t9s4z

Samsung launches a hostile takeover bid for SanDisk, hoping to aquire its lucrative solid-state storage business:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=akjbGjRImQjs&refer=asia

The Fon free wireless network now has 1 million members and 400,000 wifi hotspots world-wide:
http://blog.fon.com/en/archive/foneros/fon-wifi-community-welcomes-1000000th-member.html

Nvidia get ready to push 3D glasses into the Windows gaming market:
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/everything_you_need_know_about_nvidia’s_3d_goggle_gamble

Peru will be the first to trial the OLPC with Microsoft Windows XP on it, but supporting XP will make the US$100 price tag harder to reach:
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1608976459

And finally. For those needing to destroy hard drives quickly, it's hard to beat that old incendiary favouite - thermite:
http://hackaday.com/2008/09/16/how-to-thermite-based-hard-drive-anti-forensic-destruction/#more-2507

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03-Sep-2008 AM clippings

Enjoy:

Google's Chrome browser is released, designed to spice up the web browsing experience. Of course, the Linux version is lagging behind:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/02/google_new_chrome_browser/

Google signs a deal to get the images from the GeoEye-1 satellite, set to launch from California in the next week:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10028842-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1023_3-0-5

The island of Niue gets the world's first 100% saturation of students with OLPC XO laptops:
http://pipka.org/blog/2008/08/16/olpc-in-niue/

Not long after Richard Stallman's visit to NZ, the GNU project celebrates its 25th brithday:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/02/gnu_at_25/

Photos of the HTC Dream, touted as the world's first phone to natively run Google's Android phone OS:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/30/htcs-android-driven-dream-revealed-in-glorious-spy-photos/

Toshiba bring out a pocket LED projector weighing 100 grams but outputting 10 lumens of image:
http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1850

Magnetically-guided silicon microgrippers are shown my MIT that can be steered around your insides and then triggered to collect biopsies:
http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2008/08/microsurgery_using_microgrippers.html

And finally. Australian sprinters do a 100m dash in 3-inch heels. The prize? A$5,000 and a pair of gold stilettos:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7593509.stm

Vik :v) Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. http://diamondage.co.nz