With the Herald winding down its coverage of Technology even more - the Connect sections are being canned now - where do you turn to for local Geek News (tm)?

Well, you could do a whole lot worse than picking up PC World's sister publication Computerworld. Yes, I write for it too, but I was looking at this week's issue, thinking it really isn't bad at all.

Steve Bell has two good stories on how the New Zealand government is trying to limit invasive Digital Rights Management, and the progress of the anti-spam legislation through the select commitee - both very important matters that'll affect everyone in some form or the other.

Russell Brown's been to IBM's Almaden Research Centre and found out not just the size of the Internet, but also mine and Theresa Gattung's dirty secret. Oh dear.

I've got a follow-up story on Ferrit's shameless self-promotion, namely writing their own consumer reviews, as discovered by Spareroom journalist and fellow blogger Ana Samways. It got a bit mangled in the subbing but still makes sense I think. Further inside the paper, I've reviewed WorldxChange's new Xnet VFX VoIP service, plus the new Philips VoIP321 combined Skype/Landline phone.

Infoworld's chief technologist Tom Yager is always a good read and his column in this issue is no exception. Tom predicts the eclipse of Linux by Mac OS X - I hope he's wearing double asbestos undies, because that one will have the zealots flaming away in no time at all. It makes sense to me though what's being said, and I'm behind Tom on this one.

Speaking of Linux, ExtremeLabs have reviewed Novell OpenSuSE 10.1 and the results are in the current issue.

Check it out.