Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Fri Sep 7 09:40:34 NZST 2007

Today Index

Microsoft fail to get enough votes to have their OOXML format approved as an ISO standard, with over 10,000 comments made:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070904082606181

The EFFI notes a startling correlation between a country's Corruption Perceptions Index and its support of OOXML:
http://www.effi.org/blog/kai-2007-09-05.en.html

A novel solution to the problem of not being able to walk around the office when you're telecommuting
http://news.therecord.com/Business/article/236315

Hynix Semiconductors makes the first multi-chip package (MCP) with 24 stacked NAND flash memory chips; only 1.4 millimeters thick, 48 GB:
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2007/09/123_9628.html

And finally. British surgeons manage to grow an artificial heart valve from bone marrow stem cells - no rejection issues:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=479481&in_page_id=1965

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.