- The big story of the week is of course is Bill Gates reaching his semi-retirement date and giving up day to day control of Microsoft.
- ICANN has approved a new naming system relaxing the rules that has brought us .com .org and .net. We will see things like .sport or .news or something like that. Businesses will be able create their own domains.
- Hometown airlines American has started a pilot program to provide wi-fi on planes. This from Boing-Boing
“Lucky passengers on an American Airlines flight from JFK to Los Angeles tomorrow (Wednesday, June 25, 2008) will be the first commercial flyers to access high-speed, in-flight Internet service since the shutdown of Boeing’s Connexion service in 2006. Tomorrow’s flight is a round-trip test before a full-blown pilot program starts up and runs 3 to 6 months on all of American’s 767-200 equipment — 15 aircraft in total — wending their way from JFK to SFO, LAX, and Miami.”
- Nokia has bought the Symbian operating system. This is the operating system that is on all Nokia phones. The big deal about this is that Nokia is going to make the OS open source, allowing developers to change the OS. This will become a big competetor to Google’s Android mobile OS when it comes out at the end of the year.
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