Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Fri Oct 20 17:43:11 NZDT 2006

Today Index

Microsoft's new IE7 still not rated the best browser, but it is closing the usability gap on its rivals. If only it ran on more platforms:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2033704,00.asp

TelstraClear launches unconstrained broadband, but decides to make it less useful by denying the use of static IPs:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/3034937A1CD03378CC25720B0023E677

The USB Implementers Forum, 1394, and the Bluetooth SIG have chosen the WiMedia Alliance's version of UWB technology for wireless USB:
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/communications/0,39044192,61960583,00.htm

All about the Vodem Vodafone 3G broadband USB Modem, or the Huawei E220 as its manufacturers call it. Catchy, eh? Might even work on Linux:
http://www.gsmmobile.co.nz/News/article/sid=1236.html

Yellow Dog to make their Linux distro (previously used on Macs) available on the Sony PS3. Microsoft declined to respond for Xbox:
http://arstechnica.com/articles/columns/linux/linux-20061018.ars

And finally. Research seems to rule out appreciable layers of water ice on our moon's poles, but plenty of oxygen is left in the rocks:
http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/mg19225743.300-hopes-for-lunar-ice-melt-away.html

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.