Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Sat Dec 29 19:03:05 NZDT 2007

Today Index

Norway's government mandates HTML, PDF and ODF for all publicly accessable information, as of 2009:
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/20/norway-mandates-government-odf

AOL announces that they will discontinue further development of the Netscape browser and recommends the use of Firefox:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/

Windows Home Server has a file corruption bug under heavy load, say on multimedia files. So would both the users please read this:
http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9838093-37.html?tag=newsmap

The CIA must be using Windows Home Server then...:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=36444§ionid=3510203

The new NASA moon rocket is to have Open Source avionics systems for lower costs & improved interoperability:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4236758.html

Sony pull out of the large screen projection TV market to concentrate on LCD and OLED panels. Their OLED screen is 3mm thick:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7161623.stm

Steve Furber of the University of Manchester gets a CBE for his part in creating the BBC computer and the ARM CPU:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7162935.stm

And finally. Looks like the squirrels are taking their first step towards fighting global warming. They're stealing the lightbulbs:
http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2007/12/27/news/local_state/127542.txt

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.