Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Sat Mar 17 16:49:17 NZDT 2007

Today Index

Despite the hype, Acer, Toshiba, Dell, HP and Lenovo do not in reality offer PCs for sale without Windows installed, as ZDNet discovers:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39286228,00.htm

SCO's "mountain of code" which it alleges IBM is infringing boils down to 326 non-copyrightable lines that IBM didn't put in Linux anyway:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070310204302343

Confirmation that Google are creating their own phone, possibly in collaboration with Samsung. Actual details remain scarce:
http://news.com.com/2061-10812_3-6167826.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news

An OpenBSD remote kernel exploit is found. Time to update your firewalls:
http://www.coresecurity.com/index.php5?module=ContentMod&action=item&id=1703

A new theory on the nature of electrons leads to novel uses for an unusual crystal called herbertsmithite in quantum computing:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19325954.200

And finally. A bike that travels sideways. Nearly killed the inventor, but sounds fun for those with adventurous tendencies:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6375259.st

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.