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.