Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Tue Jan 22 09:56:49 NZDT 2008

Today Index

Australian Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy tells Telstra it must delay the closure of its regional CDMA network:
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23083103-5013038,00.html

Google quietly launches a new experimental interface for their search engine. Preview here:
http://www.google.com/experimental/a840e102.html

Microsoft buys Calista Technoliges in a bid to bolster its position in the virtual server market against VMware:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10488094

Ars Technica reviews the recently released KDE 4.0 desktop, which comes with as many bugs as it does features:
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/kde-40-review.ars

And finally. Japan is to test a new spaceplane's re-entry from the space station. An origami space plane. Yes, paper:
http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13208-origami-spaceplane-aims-for-space-station-descent.html

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.