Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Fri Feb 22 11:07:26 NZDT 2008

Today Index

Google is backing development of the Windows emulator WINE so that Linux users can run Adobe's Photoshop software:
http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/digitalcameras/0,39001469,62037989,00.htm

Microsoft makes its fourth statement of interoperability. The EU Commissioners patiently wait for it to become real:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7257411.stm

Swiss Bank Julius Baer convinces a U.S. judge to close down the WikiLeaks.org domain. The money-laundering docs become more popular:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/robertxcringely/archives/2008/02/wikileaks_money.html

Microsoft creates some stereotypical employee characters to entice young & impressionable Windows users. The big question: Will It Blend? :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/hero/

And finally. Sabotage in cyberspace. Looks more and more likely that the recent spate of broken internet cables was not all accidental:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080219-undersea-saboteurs-may-have-been-responsible-for-cable-cuts.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.