Irony abounds as Australia's "Open Government" censors 90% of its
plans to spy on its citizens' mail and internet use to stifle debate:
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/no-minister-90-of-web-snoop-document-censored-to-stop--premature-unnecessary-debate-20100722-10mxo.html
While in Austria, Linz is to have not just Open Source, but an Open
Commons, Open Courseware, Open Data, advisory and coordination centre:
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/first-open-commons-region-in-the-world-linz-austria/2010/07/24?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+P2pFoundation+%28P2P+Foundation%29
Dell drops Ubuntu from its online store, claiming that advanced users
will order it by phone. Are they incompetent or being lent on?:
http://www.techi.com/2010/07/get-this-damned-ubuntu-out-of-dells-internets/
India's US$35 computing device seems to be just a pipe-dream, for the
foreseeable future at least:
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/india-35-tablet/
And finally. A classic example of the stupidity of the "free market",
viz. the 6-bladed razor. I gave up at 2 blades + slime strip:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/23/AR2010072305083.html
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.