Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Sun Oct 15 08:30:25 NZDT 2006

Today Index

Microsoft Vista's EULA seems to prohibit selling the PC, more than one motherboard upgrade and the use of a Virtual Machine to run Vista:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=156

Security Software company McAfee, in the news after objecting to Microsoft's API restrictions, sacks its president in a stock scandal:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/ABEFDB9DFFCD0D77CC257205000EF64E

Meanwhile, Microsoft does an about-face, and permits security software vendors deep access to the code again:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/13/AR2006101301280.html

Palm release a new phone, the Treo 680. GSM, 320x320 touchscreen, Bluetooth SD, VGA camera, edits MS Office docs, and coloured cases:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2028834,00.asp

Wanted: People to hack security on the $100 laptop:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2028789,00.asp

Spam loses its trademark bid on software titles. Mind you, it's the Spiced Ham company Hormel that lost the bid...:
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20061011/techbits-spam.htm

The first confirmed "spintronic" device incorporating organic molecules is created in the lab:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/nios-msa101206.php

And finally. What do bored Disney costume fillers do backstage? Film simulated cartoon orgies of course (Reuters):
http://tinyurl.com/yxepw

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.