Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Fri Jan 11 11:25:17 NZDT 2008

Today Index

Low-cost PCs hit the news as Shuttle makes a US$200 PC and an ex-OLPC team member aims for a US$75 laptop:
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9847365-7.html?tag=nefd.only
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,141230-c,notebooks/article.html

Several devices have now been made to run Googles "Android" mobile phone stack - by the Open Source community:
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS4262102607.html

Wired explores how the iPhone marketing campaign has cleared the way for open WiFi networks:
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/16-02/ff_iphone

The FBI find that their wiretaps are being disconnected - because they're not paying their phone bills:
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080110/D8U35C500.html

The first look at the new USB 3.0 connectors. New connections are recessed for compatibility. No optical connections:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/01/09/ces_usb_3_revealed/

And finally. An experimental treatment in humans causes improvement in Alzheimer's patients within minutes of injection:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080109091102.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.