Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Tue Mar 11 09:09:08 NZDT 2008

Today Index

Ziff Davis Media, producer of PC Magazine and various gaming titles, files For Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i3vi6ITN0nO1z1LNfJeaZkvsrTCwD8V7MNDO0

Wellington firm SilverStripe to handle the Democrat's National Convention website in this US election year:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4433566a28.html

IBM To offer Microsoft-free personal computers based on Red Hat Linux to the eastern European markets as the "Open Referent" line:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10496244

A suggestion that Microsoft could give Windows away free and still not be able to compete in the ultra-portable laptop market:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/06/opensource.olpc

Open Source developers seem to get both more money and more satisfaction:
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9882356-7.html

And finally. Surveillance cameras everywhere are bad enough. Now imagine a new breed that look under your clothes. Here they come:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7287135.stm

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.