Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Wed Mar 12 09:39:45 NZDT 2008

Today Index

The G-Archiver application used to access Gmail harvests account and password details. It appears to be a debug gone wrong:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001072.html

Apple's SDK basically prohibits useful applications like Skype, Firefox and Java - trouble for Sun around the corner:
http://www.cnet.com/8301-13739_1-9889159-46.html

Firefox 3 beta 4 now available for testing. Has 900 fixups from the previous beta, but still not a release candidate:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0b4/releasenotes

3D Fabrication technology allows designers to convert a Glock pistol into a collapsable submachine gun that fits in your back pocket:
http://gizmodo.com/365738/from-flashlight-to-flash-fight-with-the-fmg+9-concept-from-magpul

Chemists develop chemical logic that can be used to individually control molecular machines:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7288426.stm

And finally. A US survey appears to show that cat owners are less likely to die from a heart attack:
http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/healthday/080221/cats-help-shield-owners-from-heart-attack.htm


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.