When the content producers actively lobbied in favor of SOPA and initially had Washington on their side, a lot of us did realize that Silicon Valley had a very limited influence in Congress. Although one of the tech giants, Google, went for a blackout which had a massive, perhaps decisive impact on the whole SOPA issue. But it seems that Google has realized that a well-established relationship with lawmakers is critically important.
Acquisitions have been a quick way for major tech giants to expand their influence as well as scope of their activities. Now, UK mobile giant Vodafone has revealed plans that it intends to buy off Cable & Wireless which is a commercial network provider. It is expected that Vodafone may realize its plans at a cost of $1.7 billion.
Linux has become an integral part of the tech world. In fact, more often than not, it has lead the way forward, to newer innovations, better machines and more advanced features. In a way, Linux has truly transformed the world. So it doesn’t come as much of a surprise when Linux’s Creator, Linus Torvalds is awarded the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize.
It has been revealed through the details divulged to Securities and Exchange Commission by Facebook, that the social network had a very handsome growth of 45 percent in overall revenue during the first quarter. With this growth, the overall revenue of Facebook tipped $1.06 billion. However, it seems that the company’s profits have fell.
Facebook is gearing up to go public next month, and is trying to bring together all the things it can to help it in that. Now, the social network has struck a deal with Microsoft to buy 650 AOL patents for a massive $550 million. The patents, naturally, are meant to make Facebook secure and enable it to be protected from any prospective litigation once it goes public.
We had been hearing that Microsoft intends to extends its SkyDrive services and may also start a paid version of the cloud service. Currently, new users are able to get up to 7GB of free space while old users, with accounts till April 22, continue to enjoy 25 GB for free. The good news are that the users can now extend their SkyDrive space against a certain annual sum.
The whole tech world has been eagerly anticipating the launch of Intel’s much-touted Ivy Bridge processors. Intel has been claiming that these are the first 22 nanometer products. Now, finally, the chip maker has launched the first wave of Ivy Bridge processors which make use of the cutting-edge tri-gate transistor technology.
Users of Adobe Creative Suite, which range from professionals designers to amateur photographers, have been desperately waiting for the launch of the software’s next release. Now, the company has finally launched Creative Suite 6 as well as Creative Cloud. This release comes at the heels of a beta launch of CS6 which was being offered for free for a month prior to this launch.
It would seem that the renowned novel, and then an adaptation on the big screen, Hunger Games has stirred quite a few creative minds. Or so it would seem when you see the new ad by Absolut Vodka. The ad attempts to show some robot Greyhounds racing in the desert and hunting after a metallic bunny.
Task management is increasingly becoming popular among individuals as well as organizations. Imagine a scenario where you could automate the management of whichever things you wanted to, for instance email, messages and a lot more. That’s precisely what Asana’s software enables a user to do. To its proud performance, Asana is already being used by tech world’s big wigs such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Rdio and others.
Patents are a rather interesting way of gauging the possible future ambitions of a company. So which company has now revealed its plans by patenting one of its creative spins? This time, its Microsoft and the company has filed for a patent which is about a device which comes with two screens.
Pixel Qi is known for producing displays which can be easily discerned and read from even in the outdoors. Although the displays aren’t yet a hit with the tech world and are being used only by a few consumers, the company has big plans for future. According to Mary Lou Jepsen, the founder of Pixel Qi, the company has been able to develop a ‘new architecture’ for displays which will come with a resolution as good as Retina display.
Seems like, making Flight Simulator has become so much easy. In my last article, I wrote, “An Airline Pilot Builds Own Flight Simulator Only By Reading”. And now, an air traffic controller and a private pilot James Price, who works at Oakland Air Traffic Control Center has built a cockpit using the shell of a 1969 Lufthansa Boeing 737. He spent 12 years to make this in his garage.
After a long spinal cord injury, patients usually damage their connections between brain and spinal cord circuits, which are sensual for any movement. Thanks to scientists at Northwestern University in Chicago, who have developed a Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) that would create the connections again between brain and spinal cord circuits using only the brain power. In simple word, brain-implanted electrical device helps restore life to paralyzed limbs.
Apple and Samsung have been locked in a bitter legal feud over the past few years. Each of them alleges the other side of infringing upon a number of patents. Whereas Steve Jobs was very strong in his opinion of the Android platform, and in his ambition to ‘destroy Android’, his successor seems milder. Now, Joy of Tech has done an illustration of the ongoing settlement talks between the two rivals.
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