Thursday, August 28, 2008

28-Aug-2008 AM clippings

Enjoy:

Doctors in NZ upset as Waitemata and Counties Manukau District
Health Board ban iPhones from connecting to their network:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10529366

Amazon to release a new version of their Kindle e-book reader aimed
at capturing the US educational market:
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2224708/version-amazon-kindle-target-education

Nasa confirms that laptops carried to the ISS last July were infected with
the Gammima.AG virus, probably from a USB key:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7583805.stm

Coming to a mailbox near you soon, ASCII banner spam:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10025917-93.html

The "Space Cube" PC. Underpowered, overpriced, but the size of an apple
- that's the fruit-type apple:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/08/27/a-real-space-oddity-arrives-at-pc-pro/

Microsoft's InPrivate Browsing feature for IE stops cookies, URL
history etc. and coincidentally makes googling less effective:
http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1843

And finally. TED is a novel camera design for kids. The user holds
it up and looks through a picture frame, then squeezes to shoot:
http://blog.ted.com/2008/08/prototype_camera.php

Vik :v)
Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. http://diamondage.co.nz

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