Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Tue Nov 20 08:40:10 NZDT 2007

Today Index

Amazon's ebook reader ends up costing more than an Eee PC or OLPC and has less functionality:
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/11/19/kindle-amazon-bezos-tech-cx_bc_1119techkindle.html

Massey researchers develop a realistic animated teacher aimed at teaching maths to 8-year-olds, that detects the pupils mood:
http://masseynews.massey.ac.nz/2007/Massey_News/issue-18/stories/01-18-07.html

Firefox Split Browser Extension lets you brows two pages in a firefox window at the same time, or compare head and tail of the same page:
http://www.linux.com/articles/61966

And finally. The sun may be smaller than we thought, a mere 109 times the diameter of the Earth:
http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn12933-sun-may-be-smaller-than-thought.htm

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.