Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Thu Jun 2 21:21:54 NZST 2005

Today Index

A concise explanation of how Telecom and TelstraClear are using perverse routing to increase the costs to the end user and slow broadband services:
http://publicaddress.net/default,2213.sm#post2213

Nokia will donate the profits from their new Nokia 770 tablet's Developer Program to the Open Source Gnome Foundation:
http://2005.guadec.org/press/releases/nokia_donation.html

The popular Eclipse IDE, often used by Java developers, announces its 3.1 release candidate:
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.1RC1-200505271300/index.php

Cybersource make an Open Source Charity Fundraiser CD Project kit available, so that charities can legitimately build and sell custom CDs:
http://www.cybersource.com.au/product/charity_fundraiser_cd.html

British researchers put a Gumstix board on a miniature helicopter to create the world's smallest flying web server:
http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,67695,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1

And finally. If you thought camera pills with legs were gros, miss this. A slug-based colonoscope that finds its own way up the back entrance. Ick!:
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/05/wo/wo_053105hoffman.asp?trk=nl

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.