Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Thu Feb 15 21:06:43 NZDT 2007

Today Index

Brunswick Corporation to sell New Zealand's Navman to the Norwegian company Navico International:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/0AC89DA9830A9EBBCC2572820078ABE6

Details of the UAC security hole in Vista, which appears to be an issue with the system's design:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37619

Hitachi produces 128 bit RFID chips that measure just 0.05 x 0.05 millimeters:
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=939

Another way of using nanotubes as memory cells is invented, sliding one back and forth to create a two- or three-state circuit:
http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=1449.php

Blu-ray and HD-DVD are cracked wide open, as the processing key that allows any high-def content to be played is extracted:
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/13/bluray_and_hddvd_bro.html

ArsTechnica reviews the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet:
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/n800.ars

And finally. What crazy person would arm a Robosapiens with a flamethrower and a coil gun? Well, this one...:
http://www.evosapien.com/robosapien-hack/marcus/html/coilosapien.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.