Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Thu Feb 28 08:50:23 NZDT 2008

Today Index

Microsoft hit by a 899 Euro fine in Europe for failing to comply with a ruling against their monopolistic practices:
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iozBXlp2nzuVxnMx_SwmtKvi7C-w

Google plans 8 fibre pairs to Japan in the "Unity" cable, giving themselves a theoretical 4800Gbps to/from Asia:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/about-unity-bandwidth-consortium.html

Not so good for Gmail, as Google's Captcha system is hacked through, potenitally letting the spambots into gmail.com:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080226-gotcha-captcha-gmail-bot-detector-system-cracked.html

The UK's "Chip & PIN" crad readers turn out to be vulnerable to a simple cable interception attack:
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13385-credit-card-readers-vulnerable-to-attack.html

And finally. Richard Branson drinks his own jet fuel:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1717009,00.html?xid=rss-topstories

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.