Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Sat Jan 6 08:44:20 NZDT 2007

Today Index

Hitachi to ship a 1TB 3.5 inch hard drive this quarter for US$399:
http://news.com.com/Here+comes+the+terabyte+hard+drive/2100-1041_3-6147409.html

Seagate, meanwhiles, say that they have 30-odd terabyte drives planned:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72387-0.html

Two security flaws. One in Adobe's Acrobat plugin, patched in 8.0, and another for OpenOffice WMF (Windows Metafile) importing, fixed in V2.1:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2079201,00.asp

Samsung develops an LCD for mobile phones that can show a different image on each side, with backlighting unevenly shared:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196800986

And finally. 56% of the Amazon's nutrients come from one small valley in the Sahara, dispatched & dispensed at 700,000 tonnes/day by the wind:
http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn10880-amazon-forest-relies-on-dust-from-one-saharan-valley.htm

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.