Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Tue Sep 30 10:31:21 NZDT 2008

Today Index

When cellphones are good enough to read 1D barcodes, and real people can program them, astonishing things can happen to commerce:
http://ethicalspender.org/articles/pushVsPull

iTunes is finally made accessible to the blind community:
http://www.bostonherald.com/jobfind/news/technology/view.bg?articleid=1121806

Microsoft to ship the Open Source jQuery JavaScript library with Visual Studio because it's so darned handy:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/29/microsoft_jquery/

Sprint makes WiMax available in the US for US$10 a day:
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUSN2938183020080929

And finally. They've made a spacewalk, but are they getting ahead of themselves? Now China is building a reactionless drive:
http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1898

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.