Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Wed Jun 1 16:56:23 NZST 2005

Today Index

The Debian project schecules their 3.1 "Sarge" release for the 6th June, with just 50 bugs left to kill before the first upgrade since 2002:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39194519,00.htm

HTC, Makers of the Falcon and Harrier PDA/phones are set to bring out the "Wizard", with a side-sliding keyboard, Bluetooth and WiFi, and 2MP camera:
http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2005/05/wizard_smartpho.html

Atrua bring out a very small fingerprint and motion sensor called Wings that scans the fingerprint as it is swept across the linear sensor's surface:
http://www.atrua.com/prod_wings.html

And finally. Hrvoje points out a great story on a lady hacker who managed to squeeze a C64 emulator and 30 games into a joystick unit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/20/technology/20joystick.html?ex=1117684800&en=6a278853c79e607a&ei=5070&oref=login&oref=login

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.