Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Sat Apr 5 15:00:55 NZDT 2008

Today Index

The OOXML ISO process has apparently been under inspection by the European Commission, relating to the Microsoft antitrust trial:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/02/AR2008040201515.html

Firefox now expands to 18% of the business browser market, almost catching IE7. So design for standards, not browsers:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207001060

There are now more than 2,000 projects licenced under GPLv3:
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1811059115

By managing qubits as a three-level system, University of Queensland researchers develop a better way to design quantum logic:
http://arxivblog.com/?p=346

And finally. A review of the world's big solar power plants coming online soon. Impressive, but not nearly enough of them:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4239


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.