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Monthly Archives: August 2011
The Death of WebOS, RIP…
As Burgess Meredith shouted to Sylvester Stallone in the Movie Rocky, “you could have been a contender” is the same that the market is shouting at HP over its killing of WebOS. As its clear that HP has missed out … Continue reading
Pencil and Paper, No Deal…
So did you know that you can’t patent calculations that can be done with a simple number two pencil and paper? Therefore under this rule all such calculations remain unpatentable even if the steps are programmatically encoded into a machine-readable … Continue reading
Germany Going Anti-Atom is it a Good Thing…
Many German leaders have a big beef with Berlin and especially Angela Merkel’s government’s decision, in May, to close all of Germany’s nuclear-power stations by 2022. So ok, what is the plan to replace the power they all ask as … Continue reading
Bye Bye Berlin So Say German Businesses…
Should the German economy support the euro, at any price? Not according to many German business leaders who are wondering where the seemingly never-ending euro-zone bail-outs, to which Germany is the biggest contributor are taking them. As many are beginning … Continue reading
Google to buy Motorola and Why…
While maybe a bit of old new market wise, the concept of Google’s bid of $12.5 billion for Motorola Mobility, better known as a troubled American maker of mobile phones (remember the razor) is still worth waining about. Because should … Continue reading
The Road to the Future is Paved With Dollars…
Leave it to my friends in the Netherlands, where by some accounts residents have the highest average commuting time in Europe. Now couple this with their reputation for receptivity to environmental innovation, and you have a government looking for novel … Continue reading
Will Intel’s Tri-Gate be a Trifecta for the World…
Coming in 2013, the semiconductor giant Intel is set once again to keep its Co-founder (Gordon Moore) words true as its readying commercial production of its new generation of semiconductor manufacturing technology named “Tri-Gate“. So what will this mean and why do … Continue reading
So What Will You Do…
Do you ever wonder where words come from, as take for example “robot” which comes from an old Slavic word meaning to “work“. While maybe more adapt in the 1920’s to represent the rise of the industrial worker, it was … Continue reading
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Seeing To Infinity and Beyond…
One of the things which I was going to say in the opening of this post was “I look forward to the obituary section of the Economist“, however no matter the number of times in my fretting over the words … Continue reading
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