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July 22, 2014
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Apple and Samsung find themselves on the same side in patent fight

Apple and Samsung fighting the same foe? What’s next? New York Yankee and Boston Red Sox fans singing “Kumbaya” together? Manchester United and Liverpool FC supporters taking up joint knitting lessons?

It’s actually just another case of businesses being attacked by the same patent troll. In this case, Luxembourg-based Enterprise Systems Technologies (EST) SARL. This newly formed company owns five patents formerly owned by Siemens.

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July 22, 2014
by sjvn01
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Bye, Nokia, nice knowing you

Believe it or not, only four years ago Nokia — poor, dying Nokia — was the No. 1 mobile phone company in the world. Since then, it was bought by Microsoft, which last week announced that it’s firing half of Nokia’s workforce. So tell me, what exactly was the point of that $7.2 billion acquisition just over a year ago?

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July 17, 2014
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Who should really worry about Apple/IBM? Microsoft

So Apple and IBM are hooking up. It’s a match made in enterprise heaven, bringing together BYOD favorites the iPhone and the iPad with enterprise apps and cloud services from IBM. It’s a win for Apple, which finally gets some serious business software chops, and for IBM, which gets device sex appeal.

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June 19, 2014
by sjvn01
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Does HP have a development pipeline or a pipe dream?

HP wants to blow your minds with what’s in its development pipeline. The Machine, it says, will introduce a new kind of system architecture that will use memristors and silicon photonics to “replace a data center‘s worth of equipment with a single refrigerator-sized machine.” It will be able to address 160 petabytes of data in 250 nanoseconds. It will pump up to 100 terabytes of storage into a single Android phone.

Whoa! Mind blown!

I mean, you have to admit that the Machine sounds like the best thing to hit technology since John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley dreamed up the transistor. It will change everything.

If it ever materializes.

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