A paper by a Dutch intern reveals that in 2010 it took just 12 weeks to get Mac OSX’s kernel ported from Intel to ARM as part of a ‘larger project’.
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A paper by a Dutch intern reveals that in 2010 it took just 12 weeks to get Mac OSX’s kernel ported from Intel to ARM as part of a ‘larger project’.
Plus what an apparently ex-Zynga employee is saying over at Reddit (and it’s not pretty) A quick burst of 7 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Halliburton to ditch BlackBerrys in corporate transition to Apple’s iOS platform > > Apple Insider “Over the next year, we will begin expanding the use of our mobile technology by transitioning from the BlackBerry (RIM) platform that we currently use to smartphone technology via the iPhone,” the Houston, Texas-based firm told employees in an internal newsletter this month. Wolfram Alpha Pro democratizes data analysis: an in-depth look at the $4.99 a month service > > The Verge On Wednesday, February 8th, Wolfram Alpha will be adding a new, “Pro” option to its already existing services. Priced at a very reasonable $4.99 a month ($2.99 for students), the new services includes the ability to use images, files, and even your own data as inputs instead of simple text entry
Plus what an apparently ex-Zynga employee is saying over at Reddit (and it’s not pretty) A quick burst of 7 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Halliburton to ditch BlackBerrys in corporate transition to Apple’s iOS platform > > Apple Insider “Over the next year, we will begin expanding the use of our mobile technology by transitioning from the BlackBerry (RIM) platform that we currently use to smartphone technology via the iPhone,” the Houston, Texas-based firm told employees in an internal newsletter this month. Wolfram Alpha Pro democratizes data analysis: an in-depth look at the $4.99 a month service > > The Verge On Wednesday, February 8th, Wolfram Alpha will be adding a new, “Pro” option to its already existing services. Priced at a very reasonable $4.99 a month ($2.99 for students), the new services includes the ability to use images, files, and even your own data as inputs instead of simple text entry
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Plus US military to get secure Android phones, and Motorola wants 2.25% of Apple’s sales in patent battle A quick burst of 6 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Over 3 years later, “deleted” Facebook photos are still online > > Ars Technica Worth a full read. Facebook is still working on deleting photos from its servers in a timely manner nearly three years after Ars first brought attention to the topic.
Plus US military to get secure Android phones, and Motorola wants 2.25% of Apple’s sales in patent battle A quick burst of 6 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Over 3 years later, “deleted” Facebook photos are still online > > Ars Technica Worth a full read. Facebook is still working on deleting photos from its servers in a timely manner nearly three years after Ars first brought attention to the topic.
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Smartphones outsold PCs and tablets combined, says research company – but netbooks have had their day as sales fall by 25% year-on-year Stick a fork in it: the netbook is done, with sales falling by 25% in the past year while smartphones and tablets are invading the computing space, according to new figures from the research company Canalys. In 2011, tablets overtook netbooks in total sales while smartphone shipments exceeded those of tablets and PCs combined, at 487.7m against 414.6m. Netbook shipments in particular fell from 39.4m in 2010 to 29.4m in 2011, a 25% fall, as the total number of tablets shipped rose almost threefold from 23m to 63m by Canalys’s calculations.
Smartphones outsold PCs and tablets combined, says research company – but netbooks have had their day as sales fall by 25% year-on-year Stick a fork in it: the netbook is done, with sales falling by 25% in the past year while smartphones and tablets are invading the computing space, according to new figures from the research company Canalys. In 2011, tablets overtook netbooks in total sales while smartphone shipments exceeded those of tablets and PCs combined, at 487.7m against 414.6m. Netbook shipments in particular fell from 39.4m in 2010 to 29.4m in 2011, a 25% fall, as the total number of tablets shipped rose almost threefold from 23m to 63m by Canalys’s calculations.
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We’re throwing open our doors on 24 and 25 March to host talks and debates about the frontiers of particle physics, neuroscience and the law, and host masterclasses on podcasting, journalism, web tools and photography Do you have a burning question about the Higgs boson, supersymmetry or the standard of the coffee in the canteen at the home of the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva? On Sunday 25 March as part the Guardian’s Open Weekend , three scientists at the cutting edge of physics will be on hand to answer all the most basic or esoteric questions that may have built up in your mind (where they might well be burning a hole) over the past year of incredible research results. Led by the Guardian’s Ian Sample and our superstar physics blogger, Prof Jon Butterworth , this is your chance to get a possible explanation for those strange, apparently faster-than-light neutrinos, and find out what happens after the LHC has finally found the Higgs particle.
We’re throwing open our doors on 24 and 25 March to host talks and debates about the frontiers of particle physics, neuroscience and the law, and host masterclasses on podcasting, journalism, web tools and photography Do you have a burning question about the Higgs boson, supersymmetry or the standard of the coffee in the canteen at the home of the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva? On Sunday 25 March as part the Guardian’s Open Weekend , three scientists at the cutting edge of physics will be on hand to answer all the most basic or esoteric questions that may have built up in your mind (where they might well be burning a hole) over the past year of incredible research results. Led by the Guardian’s Ian Sample and our superstar physics blogger, Prof Jon Butterworth , this is your chance to get a possible explanation for those strange, apparently faster-than-light neutrinos, and find out what happens after the LHC has finally found the Higgs particle.
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Plus 10 awesome Android tablet tips and tricks from Zdnet, and why Soundcloud ditched Flash for HTML5 A quick burst of 10 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Analysis: Patent plaintiffs target Facebook as IPO approaches > > Reuters Last year, Facebook was named as a defendant in 22 lawsuits accusing it of patent infringement, double the number from 2010, according to a Reuters analysis of court documents on legal database Westlaw, a Thomson Reuters unit.
Plus 10 awesome Android tablet tips and tricks from Zdnet, and why Soundcloud ditched Flash for HTML5 A quick burst of 10 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Analysis: Patent plaintiffs target Facebook as IPO approaches > > Reuters Last year, Facebook was named as a defendant in 22 lawsuits accusing it of patent infringement, double the number from 2010, according to a Reuters analysis of court documents on legal database Westlaw, a Thomson Reuters unit.
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Open data is all very well, but what if you don’t release the most useful datasets of all? Paul Clarke on the scandal of UK transport data Remind me again: what’s the purpose of opening up all this public data? Ah yes, that’s it
Open data is all very well, but what if you don’t release the most useful datasets of all? Paul Clarke on the scandal of UK transport data Remind me again: what’s the purpose of opening up all this public data? Ah yes, that’s it
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Many questioned my model for digital newspapers. Here’s a few helpful answers Let’s come back to the business model question. My 15 January column featuring a simple model for digital newspapers triggered a number of emails and comments, many questioning my assumptions (my thanks to readers of the Monday Note who take the time to make insightful contributions to the discussion)
Many questioned my model for digital newspapers. Here’s a few helpful answers Let’s come back to the business model question. My 15 January column featuring a simple model for digital newspapers triggered a number of emails and comments, many questioning my assumptions (my thanks to readers of the Monday Note who take the time to make insightful contributions to the discussion)
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Refining the digital newspaper model
Plus Google search chief responds to critics, and what Steve Jobs told Eric Schmidt in an email in 2010 A quick burst of 5 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Antiphishing standard in the works from Google, Facebook, others > > CNET News Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, PayPal and others are working together on a standard that can be used across the Internet for blocking phishing e-mails. Not before time. Steve Jobs told Google to stop poaching workers > > Reuters And the Google employee was supposedly terminated within the hour.
Plus Google search chief responds to critics, and what Steve Jobs told Eric Schmidt in an email in 2010 A quick burst of 5 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Antiphishing standard in the works from Google, Facebook, others > > CNET News Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, PayPal and others are working together on a standard that can be used across the Internet for blocking phishing e-mails. Not before time. Steve Jobs told Google to stop poaching workers > > Reuters And the Google employee was supposedly terminated within the hour.
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Boot up: Google and Facebook work on antiphishing tool, Richard Stallman on MegaUpload arrests, and more
Plus Tim Cook on smartphone competitors, and Western Digital hard drive prices rose 47% after Thai floods A quick burst of 6 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Tim Cook on first four months at Apple > > AllThingsD Cook is not discounting Windows Phone: “I wouldn’t say it is a two-horse race,” he said. “There’s a horse in Redmond that always suits up and always runs.” Apple reports first-quarter earnings > > Apple Blink and you’d miss it. [Apple] sold 37.04 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 128 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter
Plus Tim Cook on smartphone competitors, and Western Digital hard drive prices rose 47% after Thai floods A quick burst of 6 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Tim Cook on first four months at Apple > > AllThingsD Cook is not discounting Windows Phone: “I wouldn’t say it is a two-horse race,” he said. “There’s a horse in Redmond that always suits up and always runs.” Apple reports first-quarter earnings > > Apple Blink and you’d miss it. [Apple] sold 37.04 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 128 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter
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