I’ve been meaning to post on the newspaper business for some time, and a couple of recent articles have pushed me over the line.
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This sale surprises me. E Ink is one of the most promising and successful private tech companies, with its technology key to the Kindle, the Sony e-reader and many other new consumer products, yet it’s selling itself to a key supplier at only a 50% premium to capital invested over a decade. That is not [...]
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Not sure if this is a red herring like Bush’s mission to Mars but GM and Segway have collaborated to do a dual wheel-chair type version of the Segway.
The PUMA prototype is designed to work much like the original Segway Personal Transporter, balancing on two wheels and stabilized (or not) by the rider’s [...]
Tech Industry
A perceptive article in the Economist on how, during a recession, the price decreases implied by Moore’s Law come to dominate the performance gains – the rise of “good enough” computing.
The most visible manifestation of this trend is the rise of the netbook, or small, low-cost laptop. Netbooks are great for browsing the [...]
Tech industry news
The state of blogging report by technorati says around 1.5 million blogs updated in the last week, 900k in the last 24 hours…
Bloggers have been at it an average of three years and are collectively creating close to one million posts every day. Blogs have representation in top-10 web site lists across all [...]
Climate news
The Royal Society, Britain’s oldest scientific academy, has published a series of papers in its Philosophical Transactions outlining some of the options for intervening directly in the planet’s climate. Some of these are pretty scary.
Richard Branson, a British businessman, is already offering a prize of $25m for a workable way of removing a [...]
Security brief
Cyber attacks against SecureWorks clients in 2008 originated mainly from within the USA, though this doesn’t mean the computers aren’t being controlled from Russia, or elsewhere:
The United States topped the list with 20.6 million attempted attacks originating from computers within the country and China ran second with 7.7 million attempted attacks emanating from [...]
Industry stuff
Semi sales up 7.6% year on year (via Briefing.com). Lots of market talk about LCD sales softening as well.
Semiconductor chip sales during July increased 7.6% from last year, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. In turn, total July sales were $22.2 billion. Sales were also up from the prior month when they totaled [...]
Industry stuff
Danny O’Brien talks about developments in customer owned fibre – the ultimate telco disenfranchisement. Households band together to buy the link back to the nearest peering center and then have free, unlimited bandwidth for ever after.
A study of the blood of older people who survived the 1918 influenza pandemic reveals that antibodies to the strain [...]
iPhone vs Blackberry for corporate users
It cannot go the distance. This is a very good power-user appraisal of the iPhone vs Blackberry at this point. iPhone killer: battery life.
For well over a month now, I have been trying out a 3G Apple (AAPL) iPhone. And let me say right up front, it really is the best mobile device I’ve ever [...]