Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Thu May 26 07:45:31 NZST 2005

Today Index

The backers of the Cell processor are preparing to release full chip specs & software libraries to encourage open-source support beyond the PS3:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163106213

Nokia announces details of their pocket-sized Internet Tablet, equipped with multimedia playback, WiFi, Bluetooth, and PDA functions. Oh yeah, runs Linux:
http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,75023,00.html

PalmSource's Patrick McVeigh confirms suspicions that Palm are moving towards using Linux as their PDAs due to demand from unspecified "major players":
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8A9QQVO2.htm

And finally. What do Microsoft SSI presenters do when the software on their laptop craps out? They continue the presentation using OpenOffice and Linux:
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/article.php?sid=9792

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.