Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Tue Oct 31 10:19:01 NZDT 2006

Today Index

Internet experts gather in Greece for the Internet Governance Forum, mostly to complain at the dominance of the US in Internet management:
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10406-experts-gather-to-debate-control-of-the-internet.html

The UK's Institute for Public Policy Research recommends the law is changed to allow people to legally copy MP3s onto their iPods:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35420

Oracle are offering their own Red-Hat-Linux-with-the -serial-numbers-filed-off with support, at 50% off:
http://www.oracle.com/events/linux/promotion.html?msgid=5101534

Just what a lot of us have wanted; the dumb phone, sorry, Motofone. Thin, cheap, long life, simple to use, monochrome E-Ink display:
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17663&ch=nanotech&sc=

Seagate's DriveTrust disk encrypts data straight onto the drive. No password, no data retrieval. Really. So don't forget it:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35421

And finally. How to spot idiots, and avoid becoming one:
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/10/you_have_to_lov.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.