Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Sun May 22 07:58:35 NZST 2005

Today Index

Broadcom alleges Qualcomm has infringed 10 Broadcom patents on wired and wireless communications, and multimedia processing:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163105603

The real culprits behind the SCO DDOS attacks are found, and it wasn't disgruntled Linux users. It was an organised cybercrime syndicate:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050520205027290

Plans are afoot to make your DVD have an RFID tag in it that is matched to your actual fingerprints, which are programmed in at the store:
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,67556,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1

KDE Users will want to patch again, after a previous security fix to stop malicious PCX files on the web still allows local PCX file exploits:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/B72E941FF56DFBBFCC257006006D08C5?OpenDocument&pub=Computerworld

TDK's Latest take on recordable Blu-Ray DVDs weighs in at 100GiB:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/19/tdk_four-layer_bd/

Samsung to show a 40-inch 1,280 by 800 pixel OLED display, destined for TVs:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163105570

And finally. The biological system that puts our heart on the left side is uncovered. A little pump wafts chemical messages through the embryo:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-05/si-tus051905.php

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.