Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Sat Jun 16 09:39:34 NZST 2007

Today Index

Apple have released the Mac browser Safari for Windows, claiming twice the speed of IE. Also some news on the Leopard OS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6742439.stm

The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum is finally ready to announce its 1.0 specification:
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3682701

The OptiML WLC is a new wafer-level camera technology, less than half the size and 30% cheaper than current cameras used in phones etc:
http://www.gizmag.com.au/go/7423/

Telecom's IT arm Gen-i & Auckland engineering firm Beca cheered MS Vista but are slow to deploy it. Only 19% report it meets expectations:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4091272a28.html

Miniature projectors now start to include self-steadying technology for handheld and other high-vibration use:
http://www.gizmag.com.au/

And finally. Our "junk" DNA may not be so much junk after all, as our genome starts to look less and less like the tidy program we assumed:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19426086.000-junk-dna-makes-compulsive-reading.html

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.