Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Fri Mar 23 20:45:12 NZST 2007

Today Index

The EU's anti-trust official says that Microsoft is continuing to gain market share through abusive behaviour and this is not acceptable:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070322/bs_nm/microsoft_kroes_eu_dc

Symantec list Microsoft Windows as the more secure operating system (12 severe bugs, 21 days to fix), compared to RedHat (2 bugs, 13 days). Eh?:
http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3667201

A survey shows that Google's Blogspot blogs are 75% spam - and that's actually good compared to most of the competition:
http://www.infoniac.com/hi-tech/google-blogs-spam.html

According to MacWorld iPods Can now run widgets, as Koloroo releases a calculator and colour-matching program:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/130042-1/article.html?tk=nl_dnxnws

Firefox seems to be getting much more stable and secure, thanks to community effort. Only one patch needed for 2.0.0.3:
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3667396

Scott Miller, the guy in charge of "Duke Nukem" admits they screwed up. But they will bring out the next version, honest:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38388

US Defense(sic) Department produces a prototype polymorphous processor that can reconfigure depending on the task at hand:
http://www.mil-embedded.com/news/db/?5784

UCLA Produce the world's finest-grained alphabet soup to demonstrate a new microscale fabrication technique. They want to play Scrabble:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198100597

And finally. I've been waiting for this - how to make a BB-firing coil gun from disposable cameras, and mount it on a Robosapien toy:
http://www.evosapien.com/robosapien-hack/marcus/html/coilosapien.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.