Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Fri Oct 6 06:53:54 NZDT 2006

Today Index

Small Business takes a look at the cost of switching to Vista, and comes up with a potential bill of US$3,250-5,000 per employee:
http://smallbusiness.itworld.com/4383/nls_networking061005/page_1.html

VIA Sets up a solar-powered PC centre in Samoa to offer Internet, word processing, fax, scanner, printing and copying services to tourists:
http://www.viapc-1.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=444&Itemid=2〈=en

BenQ Offer some nice pics of a flat-surface mobile phone, to cheer up those people upset at the European branch going down the tube...:
http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2006/10/03/black_box_phone.html

Adding viruses to memory chips makes them go faster. Not the coded ones, but little bitty organic things that have been coated in platinum:
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10228-happy-snaps-from-a-virusinfested-chip.html

And finally. One dozen really embarrassing moments in the IT world, collated by Peter Coffee. From downed airliners to poked Pentiums:
http://www.eweek.com/slideshow/0,1206,pg=0&s=700&a=190182,00.asp

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.