Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Tue Dec 11 21:09:21 NZDT 2007

Today Index

Why the economics are right for Linux to sneak in at the low end:
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2414535067.html

A VoIP application is finally ported onto the iPod. It's a bit rough but works:
http://touchmods.blog.com/2399964/

Nokia want the free Ogg multimedia encoding standard removed from the proposed HTML5 standard from the W3C:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071210-nokia-wants-w3c-to-remove-out-ogg-from-upcoming-html5-standard.html

And finally. How to turn a relatively cheap wiimote into an interactive whiteboard sensor without wrecking it:
http://www.hackaday.com/2007/12/09/wiimote-projector-whiteboard/

Clippings now enters its traditional Xmas slowdown.
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.