Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Thu May 3 20:24:30 NZST 2007

Today Index

A DMCA takedown notice is issued to Google over the AACS access key for HD-DVDs. Ironically, the published notice includes the key...:
http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=3218

Fon to give away a free WiFi router to anyone near an American Starbucks, and pay them for users who connect to it:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/21/fon-wants-you-to-help-steal-business-from-starbucks-and-t-mobile/

Computerworld says SAFI "cleanses Niue govt of Open Source"; hard, because none is in place! SAFI's press release tells a different story:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/8695469406249B19CC2572CA00102D2D?Opendocument&HighLight=2,safi
http://safitech.com/press_releases/24_apr_2007_safitech_undp_niue_egovernment_project.html

US Soldiers are now banned from posting anything online unless the content is cleared by their commander:
http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/05/army_bloggers

Ext3cow is an Open Source file versioning system for Linux that allows a real-time view of the filesystem at any point for compliance & undelete:
http://www.ext3cow.com./

And finally. Foster's teams with the University of Queensland to make a battery running on brewer's waste. Beer; is there anything it can't do?:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6615787.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.