Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Mon Mar 27 16:58:06 NZST 2006

Today Index

Having moved to the Treo due to RIM's recent patent dispute, new Treo users are finding that they actually prefer it to the Blackberry:
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB114308086956305949-SPgLM3EUvfd2rBZzYpDE3qRvTzU_20070323.html?mod=blogs

King Kong is to be made available as a non-expiring video download by Universal:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000088&sid=a332sVBCpKkU&refer=culture

While Microsoft's Vista might run in a mere 800MB of memory, if you want to play games you'll need more like 2GB:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30503

Another critical security flaw is found in Microsoft's Internet Explorer, but this one is more critical than most:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1941507,00.asp

Sendmail picks up a theoretical exploit from specially timed requests. Exploitation is theoretical, but patches are ready and recommended:
http://www.sendmail.com/company/advisory/index.shtml#exploit

And finally. Many forms of controller have been used by games designers, but this one takes the, er, well, it's controlled by a urine stream:
http://www.yankodesign.com/product_info.php?products_id=866

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.