Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Fri Feb 3 21:35:18 NZDT 2006

Today Index

RIM Gets another NTP patent defeated, though the decision is not final. But their court case to force an injunction against RIM proceeds regardless:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1917831,00.asp

IR Cameras could be put in cellphones, enabling a host of measurement, monitoring and safety applications. A real boon to emergency personnel:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=178600334

PDA Sales fall slightly, but Palm still leads the market with a 43% chunk. Next is HP with 25%:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29446

The recent Windows WMF exploit has been on sale by Russian hacker groups for US$4,000 since last December:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1918198,00.asp

LEDs look set to not only take over illumination, but to sterilise air and water with UV light:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29437

And finally. A constructive way to blow up a building in an emergency:
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=542

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.