Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Thu Jan 24 08:03:58 NZDT 2008

Today Index

RIP ihug, the ISP created in 1994 and subsequently sold to Vodafone will now merge entirely into the Vodafone brand:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=93&objectid=10488214

The NZ Government is to overhaul its websites, adding RSS feeds and desktop widget capabilities but little for democratic accountability:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10488373

The MPAA admits it hugely overestimated the filesharing issue in US colleges. Only 3% of campus network users may be doing it anyway:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j33CBI8sUdc5ni7RlxSj5SIEc2mwD8UB6S0O2

The Epoq EGP-WP54-S GSM Quadband wrist-phone features a 1.5 inch colour touchscreen with 128x160 pixel resolution for US$450:
http://www.wristdreams.com/archives/2008/01/epoq_egpwp54s_g.html

And finally. A robot made from zombie rat muscles:
http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1413

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.