Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Mon May 8 22:18:43 NZST 2006

Today Index

Microsoft is to buy Massive Inc., and use Massive's software to put adverts on Xboxes:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/massive-win-could-give-microsoft-an-edge/2006/05/05/1146335926299.html

Have you ever googled for something, then found yourself staring at a site that promised increases in length and firmness etc? Report them:
http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html

Telecom's Theresa Gattung explaining the use of confusion as a marketing tool to maintain prices and margins while not being straight up with customers:
http://www.publicaddress.net/assets/sm/3147/79/teresacut.mp3

A device with very similar capabilities to the Origami PC from Microsoft seems to have been around for a while, and runs Firefox. The PepperPad:
http://www.pepper.com/products/pepper.html

And finally. Alcohol and a catalyst power memory-metal muscles which actually have applications in robotics. Alcohol, is there anything it can't do?:
http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?type=article&article_id=21839278

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.