Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Mon Apr 23 07:29:21 NZST 2007

Today Index

What happens when the Wired news editor uses only Google Apps for a month? Well, the cracks start to show:
http://www.wired.com/software/softwarereviews/news/2007/04/lavidagoogle

HP Pushes pay-per-page printer services; lease the printer and pay for the output. The printer is so efficient, the profit on ink is too small:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/hardware/soa/HP-offers-Australia-cutting-Edge-printing/0,130061702,339274933,00.htm

NZ Telecom to use dual-mode GSM/CDMA phones to provide roaming services, but will lock them to prevent any danger of use on Vodafone's network:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/1BFF8F0CFDDD22BDCC2572C2001C9D86

Due to popular demand, Del is bringing back Microsoft Windows XP on its laptop and desktop PCs:
http://news.com.com/Dell+brings+back+XP+on+home+systems/2100-1046_3-6177619.html?tag=nefd.top

Thunderbird 2 launches. No, not the round, green one. This is the Mozilla foundation e-mail reader we're talking about here:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39041

Second Life have now opened up their server code as well as their client under the GPL:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=142

And finally. Science images can sometimes be astoundingly beautiful. Here are the winners of the annual Science as Art competition:
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/04/amazing_microsc.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.