Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Mon May 19 11:07:31 NZST 2008

Today Index

Who needs RFID tags? Just triangulate your customers' mobile phone signals around the mall and you know exactly who they are and what they do:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3945496.ece

The Sugar GUI from the OLPC is given a life of its own to ensure independence from the underlying OS on future laptops:
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/146002/bender_forms_group_to_promote_olpcs_sugar_ui.html

Firefox 3.0 RC1 is now out for those of us who like the bleeding edge and have plenty of sticking plasters:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Serious vulnerability found in Suitelink, widely used to control power stations and oil refineries etc.:
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/mg19826566.200-power-plants-open-to-hacker-attack.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news4_head_mg19826566.200

And finally. Trouble with truffles. Apparently the famous Perigord black truffle is under attack from a Chinese invader:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7405004.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.