Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Wed Jan 24 18:09:18 NZDT 2007

Today Index

eWeek upset by Microsoft's Jan 2007 security update, which installed an unwanted IE 7.0 and cut off internet access:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2086423,00.asp

Microsoft to start another anti-piracy publicity campaign, this time using comics to get their viewpoint across:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Microsoft_launches_its_anti-piracy_campaign_in_the_United_States

The BluRay content protection scheme is bypassed by the same hacker that did the HD-DVD crack, starting a war of DRM incompatibilities for users:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/23/blu-ray_drm_cracked/

David Harris restarts Pegasus Mail due to popular demand, but will be concentrating on the more lucrative server market:
http://www.pmail.gen.nz/helpus.htm

Real-world trials of solid state drives show boot time increases don't match the hype, and question cost-effectiveness:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37139

Spansion Inc to put low-cost four-bit-per-cell "MirrorBit" flash into production this quarter with densities ranging from 256Mib to 2Gib:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196902833

And finally. A passenger from Botswana hijacks a plane using an asthma inhaler, a tub of lip balm, and a whole load of hogwash:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6291879.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.