Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Fri Nov 23 11:23:59 NZDT 2007

Today Index

Paragraphs almost deleted from a Cabinet paper reveal the real reasons why the ICT is being disbanded:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/E7136CA310B7FF41CC25739B00657E83

Vodafone's legal challenge to T-Mobile results in the iPhone being available in Germany without a T-Mobile network contract:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7105683.stm

Linux Mint; Ubuntu with all the bits Cannonical were scared to put into it like MP3, fonts and DVD playing:
http://www.howtoforge.com/desktop-installation-guide-linux-mint-4.0-daryna

Sandia Labs upgrade their miniature robot, pico:
http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1316

And finally. Hell's Gate in Rotorua brings forth a methanotroph; a bacterium that can digest methane. Good for stopping global warming:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=37&objectid=1047785

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.