Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Thu Mar 31 10:52:02 NZDT 2011

Today Index

Chapman Tripp and its allies are casting FUD at New Zealand's upcoming ban on software patents. The MED is not impressed:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/chapman-tripp-urges-re-think

Two more Registration Authorities have had their SSL signing keys compromised. Web of trust fail: https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/comodo-says-two-more-registration-authorities-compromised-033011

Acer lines up a dual-screen tablet PC as Microsoft waits for the tablet fad to pass:
http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/29/6367167-acers-dual-screen-tablet-behaves-like-a-laptop

The first commercially viable nanogenerator, a flexible chip turning body movement into power, is shown to the American Chemical Society:
http://portal.acs.org/portal/PublicWebSite/pressroom/newsreleases/CNBP_026949

And finally. Atomic wristwatches go out of kilter all over Japan. Not from radiation; the radio sync transmitter is 16 km from the Daiichi:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/03/atomic-clocks-go-dark-in-japan.html

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.