Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Mon Feb 27 22:48:18 NZDT 2006

Today Index

IBM's cell processor needs a sophisticated compiler - the octopiler - to fully utilise multiple Cell CPUs - and it isn't ready yet:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060225-6265.html

RIM's legal case wasn't settled over the weekend as some had predicted. Their message to NTP remains the same; "Settlement is not an option":
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1931214,00.asp

For those hunting Blackberry replacements, the Palm Treo 650 is getting a better write-up than the Windows-powered Treo 700w:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1912820,00.asp

E28 Limited and BridgePort Networks show a dual-mode smartphone platform based on Linux, supporting roaming between GSM and WiFi networks:
http://www.aloda.info/content/view/1646/156/

And finally. You've seen Microsoft certification, Linux certification and Oracle certification. Now the true professional can get - Lego certification:
http://www.lego.com/eng/info/default.asp?page=affiliates

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.