Android phones log nearby wifi hotspot MAC addresses and send them to Google along with GPS coordinates. Google's geolocation services can use this to triangulate your position using only surrounding wifi hotspots.

This is probably due to the new RICA legislation that requires one to provide ID and proof of residence in order to obtain a sim card. http://www.helkom.co.za/pages/rica-sim-card-registration.php

Micro Four Third cameras are very similar to DSLR's but lack the flip up mirror or optical viewfinder. Are these exempt too?

This reminds me of that Eddie Izzard clip: "Well... er.. i got some elephants" "Can they ski?!?!?" "Oh they're tops at Skiing! If you've never seen an elephant ski then you've never been on acid!"

The site does seem rather amateur. A link to the the site at http://www.asus.co.uk/eeepc/1008HA/features.html points to Asus UK's involvement. There is however no such reference on the international version at http://eeepc.asus.com/global/product1008ha.html

allows you to ssh into multiple machines and execute the same command on all of them from one terminal window. So if you set up a shell script that detects a host's distro and then execute the relevant update command you should be sorted.

Foxfilter is a password protected firefox content filter. So unless you have another browser installed it should do the job. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4351

This might be a good idea bit seeing that this is coming from microsoft, I'll just play it safe and avoid this technology at all cost.