Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Thu Sep 28 21:45:31 NZST 2006

Today Index

Intel shows a technology that allows your PC's memory to be inspected and reconfigured while you think the PC is turned off:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34697

Microsoft may not be releasing a list of programs that don't work under Vista, but that doesn't mean that there isn't one:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=19

NZ Security consultant Gerry Macridis gets off a charge of accessing a bank's phone system without authorisation as a "White Hat" hacker:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3810989a11,00.html

The latest Firefox 2.0 RC1 release adds security and usability enhancements but not a whole lot in terms of Earth-shattering features:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2021180,00.asp

If they make cellphones much smaller than the Xun Chi 138, they're going to get lost in your pocket amongst the small change:
http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/25/worlds-most-easily-misplaced-cellphone/

... and one ring to remind you of the anniversaries:
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=749

Remote-controlled aerial vehicles forming flocks indoors:
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10174-uncrewed-aircraft-swarm-together-indoors.html

And finally. French surgeons carry out the first zero-gravity operation, removing a tumor. Not in space, but bouncing up and down in an aircraft:
http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn10169-doctors-remove-tumour-in-first-zerog-surgery-.htm

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.