Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Tue Jul 11 20:43:31 NZST 2006

Today Index

Oracle's Larry Ellison says that Red Hat is too small to provide good enough support, so Oracle will be offering it:
http://www.itp.net/features/details.php?id=4690&category=

How to take a standard SDA mobile phone, unlock it, install Skype, overclock the CPU and make free WiFi calls on it. Why can't phone mfrs make this easier?:
http://oregonstate.edu/%7Ekeiterk/?p=9

A review of the RIM BlackBerry range. Cellphones with no memory slot, no cameras, no MP3 players and big price tags:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1986055,00.asp

The Firefox team pre-release a 2.0 beta for early adopters and critics:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060710-7229.html

And finally. Dr. James DeLaurier goes down in the history books as the first person to fly an ornithopter, albeit for about 14 seconds:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1152395411588


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.