Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Mon Mar 13 20:49:51 NZDT 2006

Today Index

Genuitec ports the Matisse GUI builder to the Eclipse platform, adding much needed functionality:
http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t65341.html

The popular GnuPG encryption and digital signing package has a fault that allows non-detatched signatures to be bypassed by inserted data:
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2006q1/000216.html

ESA's "GIOVE A" GPS test satellite is transmitting successfully, and experiments on signal quality are now being conducted:
http://www.esa.int/esaNA/SEM21VMVGJE_index_0.html

Motorola's RAZR phones are great at doing lots of thing, but apparently not ver good at amintaininng a cellphone call:
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/calldropping-motorola-razrs-159688.php

Samsung releases an ultra-mobile PC tablet bearing the hallmarks of Microsoft's over-hyped Origami:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=181502290

A brain-controlled computer interface for humans is demonstrated. Electrodes go no further than the scalp:
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/info-tech/dn8826.html

NASA Releases a number of their software projects under Open Source licences:
http://opensource.arc.nasa.gov/

And finally. For those who miss bass vibration on iPods, here's the Brainic MP3 player that vibrates to the beat. A player for the deaf, perhaps?:
http://www.brainic.com/

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.