Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Thu Aug 28 09:23:40 NZST 2008

Today Index

Doctors in NZ upset as Waitemata and Counties Manukau District Health Board ban iPhones from connecting to their network:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10529366

Amazon to release a new version of their Kindle e-book reader aimed at capturing the US educational market:
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2224708/version-amazon-kindle-target-education

Nasa confirms that laptops carried to the ISS last July were infected with the Gammima.AG virus, probably from a USB key:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7583805.stm

Coming to a mailbox near you soon, ASCII banner spam:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10025917-93.html

The "Space Cube" PC. Underpowered, overpriced, but the size of an apple - that's the fruit-type apple:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/08/27/a-real-space-oddity-arrives-at-pc-pro/

Microsoft's InPrivate Browsing feature for IE stops cookies, URL history etc. and coincidentally makes googling less effective:
http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1843

And finally. TED is a novel camera design for kids. The user holds it up and looks through a picture frame, then squeezes to shoot:
http://blog.ted.com/2008/08/prototype_camera.php

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.