Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Tue Feb 26 09:12:07 NZDT 2008

Today Index

The New Zealand Open Source Society open a petition to Standards NZ in support of their stance against Microsoft OOXML format adoption:
http://iso-vote.com/petition.html

Pakistan tries to censor YouTube and ends up taking the site off the entire Internet for an hour until the hijack was reported and fixed:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7262071.stm

A wireless human brain interface controller is demonstrated. Applications include gaming and assisting paralysed patients:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3485918.stm

MetaRAM to launch a DDR2 DIMM holding 4GB or 8GB of memory while still being a drop-in replacement for a normal DIMM:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080224-metaram-quadruples-ddr2-dimm-capacities-launches-8gb-dimms.html

And finally. The strange but sad case of the man-eating fairy cake:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7261888.stm

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.