Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Mon Feb 5 07:36:07 NZDT 2007

Today Index

Reuters says the FSF is to prevent Novell from shipping Linux. Eben Moglen says the quote used is out of context:
http://today.reuters.com/misc/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2007-02-02T230933Z_01_N02280856_RTRUKOC_0_US-NOVELL-LINUX.xml
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070203135052317

Microsoft produces an iTunes killer - Vista doesn't work with it:
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/9177/52/

Slight problem with Vista's voice recognition. If your website plays audio that just happens to resemble voice commands...:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=416

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh claim to have made a "Maxwell's Demon" device - a molecular scale ratcheted generator:
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=116&art_id=qw1170340561317B216

Intel's 45nm processors are going to have to wait until next year, as the production line needs a bit of tweaking:
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2007Jan/bch20070201002102.htm

And finally. The IPCC announces that their global CO2 rise predictions were accurate, but sea level rise was underestimated by about 50%:
http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn11083-sea-level-rise-outpacing-key-predictions.html

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.