I have been a member of a social networking site called LinkedIn for about six months after a friend invited me in. At the time I thought it was cute, but I did not get around to doing too much with it – well until yesterday when another friend gave me a nudge. So I had a bigger look, and allowed the site to search outlook for other contacts. That was really interesting. I managed to find a friend from Uni who is now living in the UK with his wife. And a whole lot of other people I know too… I am yet to be convinced of a business use, but it is cute.

There are reports is issues with RIM at the moment over their Blackberry mobile email appliance. At the centre of this is some patent claims against them over push email technology to mobile devices. There is some documentation available here. Realistically from what I have heard most of what was patented was obvious at the time of the patent. Hey, I have friends who worked on similar systems well before this one was patented. Unfortunately patents are being abused in the world at the moment.

IBM have released a whitepaper on their processor. The paper actually suggests some techniques that might be used to install LINUX onto the CPU, given time and more information. I suspect that it will be interesting to watch this over the next few years. Interesting Question: Shouldn’t I have a moral objection to people hacking the XBox 360?

Well, no. People have purchased the hardware, and they should be allowed to do what they want with it, provided that what they want to do is not illegal. Pirating games is illegal. However deciding to install your own operating system onto a computer should not be illegal. If microsoft or anyone else decides to sell at below cost then that is their problem.