Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Wed Jul 6 07:59:20 NZST 2005

Today Index

IBM Says that it could easily meet the power targets needed by Apple, and that this is not a real reason for Apple going Intel:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1833126,00.asp

The US Govt. recognoses the Internet's importance to the world's economy, and so hangs on to the root DNS to keep it "stable and secure":
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050701-5058.html

Trolltech releases a version of its Open Source QT toolkit that integrates with Microsoft's .NET:
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3516661

Tom Adelstein tracks Microsoft's anti-Linux lobby funds. Something that is expected to become a popular sport once the SCO case is closed:
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/38971/index.html

The time taken for a Windows PC to become infected whan connected to the internet has now dropped to 12 minutes. 30% of e-mail contains viruses too:
http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/1511

Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. plans to integrate the IBM Cell CPU into medical imaging systems:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24294

And finally. Worried about shark attacks? Relax in the comforting knowledge that you're statistically more likely to be killed en route to the beach:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/tau-saw062905.php

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.