Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Thu Oct 5 08:07:35 NZDT 2006

Today Index

It's starting to look like the claims of massive Firefox flaws are a slightly less massive hoax, as the demonstration itself was flawed:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2023762,00.asp

Vista's kernel lock-down gets more press criticism, and Microsoft's VP of the Securtiy Technology Unit, Ben Fathi, responds:
http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39283833,00.htm
http://www.thechannelinsider.com/article/Microsofts+Fathi+Responds+to+Vista+Security+Concerns/190351_1.aspx

D-Link to introduce the V-CLICK tri-band GSM phone with Bluetooth, WiFi and no locking. Designed for VoIP though no service is offered by D-Link:
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?ContentId=6731

Nokia announce a low-power, short-range competitor to Bluetooth called Wibree, for which they own the licence but claim Openness. Will it fly?:
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=6727

And finally. The US military considers a magnetic ring launcher for small, rugged satellites, possibly "Rods From God" kinetic weapons:
http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn10180-huge-launch-ring-to-fling-satellites-into-orbit.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment

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.