Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Sat Nov 5 09:12:07 NZDT 2005

Today Index

Firefox hits 11.5% of web browser usage, breaking the 10% barrier for the first time and knocking IE to 85%; so 1 in 6 clients now don't use IE:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/79524/firefox-back-on-the-up.html

The Mozilla Corporation starts a competiton for the best Firefox 1.5 plugin:
http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2005-11-3.html

eWeek Suggests that voice-over-wifi is not yet ready for prime time, but that it's coming so fast now is the time to look into it:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1878197,00.asp

xMax demonstrates a technology using unlicenced spectrum that promises to have a 1,000 times greater efficiency than WiMax and sends 3.7Mb/s over 29km:
http://www.techworld.com/mobility/news/index.cfm?NewsID=4722&inkc=0

And finally. Tel Aviv's phone exchange crashes, as one of many sonic booms intended to terrorise Palestinians hits a Jewish suburb, causing mass panic:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1607450,00.html

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.