Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Sun Mar 2 13:07:32 NZDT 2008

Today Index

OOXML Fails to get majority approval at the ISO BRM in Geneva, though you wouldn't believe it reading Micrsoft's blogs:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080229124919217

The Eee PC gets a bit more competition as Elonex announce their cheap, Linux-powered laptop. Purveyors of expensive laptops getting worried:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/28/elonex_launches_one/
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9879798-7.html

A vulnerability is found in VMWare, whereby malicious code can break out of the VM and access any part of the disk:
http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2129

And finally. This has to be a winning entry for the Darwin Awards. A Kiwi driver crashes and is killed while wearing a fake seatbelt:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4411639a6479.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.