Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Tue Jul 3 21:16:19 NZST 2007

Today Index

Google acquires GrandCentral, a company that redirects mobile phone numbers and voicemail accounts into one box:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/all-aboard.html

How Google is poised to completely revolutionise the cellphone and mobile comms industry. Do no evil:
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=0d0fa453-8a22-4dd0-b244-53f03146da8e&k=11216

The New Zealand Open Source Awards are opened. Nominations for creation and use of Open Source are open until the 17th August:
http://www.nzosa.org.nz/

Getting an iPhone is only half the story. It seems getting it activated is the real battle:
http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1325118.php/AT&T_suffers_wrath_of_bloggers_over_activation_issues

And finally. Dr Craig Venter says in the Science journal that his team transplanted a whole genome from one bacterium cell to another:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6251910.st

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.