Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Wed Feb 8 22:27:53 NZDT 2006

Today Index

The German site for BMW gets ist search ranking set to zero by Google, following the discovery that it is using "doorway pages" to increase its ratings:
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-02-04-n60.html

Wikinews publishes the IP addresses of US Government servers that were used to vandalise Wikipedia content:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice_workers_among_government_Wikipedia_vandals

An interview with Mark Tilden on the all-singing, all-dancing successors to his popular Robosapiens designs:
http://www.you-review.net/features/interviews/mark-tilden/3/

It looks like Palm are making a PalmOS version of the Windows-powered 700w phone:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29519

When is spam not spam? Yahoo and AOL are to sell spam filter bypass rights, and will stamp the mail as "legitimate" spam. It will still suck:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11191805/

Google and Skype start to bankroll Wi-Fi networks that allow bandwidth to be shared among subscribers and visitors:
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3583386

Novell opens the Xgl source code, adding 3D features to the X interface. They also bring Intel, ATI and Nvidia to the party, to help write efficient hardware drivers: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3583191

And finally. It looks like GW Bush has decided he can authorise extra-judicial killings within the US, as long as they're "suspects":
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11180519/site/newsweek

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.