The FBI wants an 'adult conversation' about encryption, according to Director James Comey, reports AP. Whilst the conversation is a good idea, and we should all be able to agree…
Further infinite musings on monkeys (1 of ?)
When Émile Borel first wrote about his singes dactylographes as a thought experiment about thermodynamics for his article in 1913 titled "Mécanique Statistique et Irréversibilité", little did he know he'd…
Yahoo! strikes a long awaited deal with Verizon
So today Verizon has ended the years of speculation about where next for Yahoo! , acquiring it for $4.8bn. Yahoo! was once an organiser of the Internet, presenting curated feeds…
Lenovo completes acquisition of Motorola from Google.
Lenovo issued a press-release yesterday to confirm that they have acquired Motorola Mobility from Google . Motorola Mobility was the handset business created when Motorola split in early 2011, before…
Happy anniversary – Android is 4 years old
I can't quite believe that the android platform is already four years old. (well I can, since the recent Android 4.0 (Ice-Cream Sandwich) announcement.) Google were expected to make an…
Will the Thailand floods prompt a move to SSDs?
With ASUS announcing that it will run out of hard disks at the end of the next month , since new ones are not being produced in enough numbers to…
Google says “Hello, Moto!” for acquisition
So Motorola Mobility is to be acquired by Google . Motorola Mobility is the mobile phone business that was finally spun out of the Motorola parent organisation in January 2011,…
The Future is Forever, with World IPv6 Launch Day
So today (June 6 2011) was World IPv6 Day, the day on which several major players in the Internet field turn on, and enable IPv6 for testing for the day.…