Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Tue Sep 25 20:59:52 NZST 2007

Today Index

Google working with international data carriers to build a multi- terabit undersea "Unity" cable across the Pacific Ocean by 2009:
http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20070921/google-undersea-cable/

Cybercrime now becomes the largest illicit business on the planet, with it's US$105 billion annual turnover beating the drugs trade:
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/61497,cyberthreats-outpace-security-measures-says-mcafee-ceo.aspx

Dell's push for Linux on Laptops well received. Dell working closely with Ubuntu for their next long-term support version, Gutsy:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/47486-dell-s-desktop-linux-strategy-so-far-so-good

Russia to install Linux on every school computer by 2009:
http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2007/09/14/266177

Mark Shuttleworth says that Cannonical now has eyes on making Ubuntu Linux Oracle Certified. Oracle's own Linux may be a competitor:
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/61139,ubuntu-comes-knocking-on-oracles-door.aspx

Firefox patches a Quicktime vulnerability, but more Microsoft library vulnerabilities are discovered:
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9781324-7.html
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/09/19/new_vulnerability_reports/

And finally. NASA Gets used to the concept of the next humans to visit the moon speaking Chinese:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/384514/will_china_beat_the_united_states_back.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.