Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Wed Apr 30 10:21:27 NZST 2008

Today Index

Firefox now neary at 29% in Europe, and 31.2% in Oceania. However, Safari has caused a drop of about 1% in the North American market:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080427-all-the-rage-in-europe-firefox-marketshare-climbs-higher.html

US Voting machine tapes show a basic inability to add up. The questions remain. Why did the officials not notice, and why do they not care?:
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1280

Tests indicate that SSDs are not worth the premium from a speed perspective just yet. Old-fashioned spinning disks rule:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=storage&articleId=9080838&taxonomyId=19&intsrc=kc_feat

British Telecom try to bundle the Linux-based Eee PC with a copy of Microsoft Office Home and Student:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/29/bt_offers_office_linux/

If you have a PDL Powerguard RCD, you might want to check this recall notice:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10507026

And finally. English village to be invaded by robots. Copehill Down in Wiltshire is targeted for an autonomous sureillance competition:
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13796-english-village-to-be-invaded-in-spybot-competition.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news7_head_dn13796

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.