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• Ozzie walks his Talko
• EMC nearly married HP
• Phone 4U shafted by suppliers claims founder
• Murdered whistleblowers can still share documents
• Nvidia wrestles with ARM connections
• Apple claims sales record for iPhone 6
• Diamond nanothreads could lift us to space
• Windows 9 looms into view
• 4G phones enter price war phase

Ozzie walks his Talko Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:28 AM PDT Former Microsofty supremo  Ray Ozzie, who was in the teams that created VisiCalc and Lotus Symphony is pushing some mobile tech which floundered at both Microsoft and Google. Groove, which was sold to Vole,  was a P2P outfit which if it was developed promised internet services where you could share files, instant message, and manage tasks with colleagues in real-time. more»

EMC nearly married HP Posted: 23 Sep 2014 01:33 AM PDT In a merger that would have ranked alongside that of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries, EMC was seriously considering tying the knot with the maker of expensive printer ink, HP. A Wall Street Journal report suggested that EMC and HP have investigated a potential merger deal that would have created a super-vendor worth close to $130 billion. more»

Phone 4U shafted by suppliers claims founder Posted: 23 Sep 2014 01:32 AM PDT Phone 4U's founder, John Caudwell, blamed the outfit's demise on its mobile network suppliers and private equity owners, BC Partners. Caudwell, who started the chain of phone shops in the 1980s and sold it for £1.5bn in 2006, said Vodafone, EE and other networks had refused to supply the retailer, in a strategy to reduce competition and fatten their margins. more»

Murdered whistleblowers can still share documents Posted: 23 Sep 2014 01:30 AM PDT A whistleblower, who is murdered by the men in black, can now make sure that all their secrets are broadcast all over the internet. A new dark web service called ‘Dead Man Zero’  claims to offer potential whistleblowers a bit more peace of mind by providing a system that will automatically publish and distribute their secrets should they die, get jailed, or get injured. more»

Nvidia wrestles with ARM connections Posted: 23 Sep 2014 01:28 AM PDT ARM Holdings Chief Executive Officer Simon Segars defended his smartphone graphics technology which Nvidia claims it invented. Nvidia is currently taking Samsung Electronics and Qualcomm to court for using the technology in its phones and accusing both companies of infringing its property patents on graphics chip technology. more»

Apple claims sales record for iPhone 6 Posted: 22 Sep 2014 07:24 AM PDT Gizmo firm Apple claimed it sold over 10 million iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus phones in the three days after it was launched by CEO Tim Cook. (pictured) The phones are available in the UK, Singapore, Puerto Rico, Japan, Hong Kong, Germany, France, Canada, Australia and the USA – and will be sold in 20 more countries on September 26th. more»

Diamond nanothreads could lift us to space Posted: 22 Sep 2014 07:08 AM PDT A team of researchers at Penn State University said it has produced ultrathin diamond nanothreads that could just possibly lead to the production of a space elevator between earth and the moon. John V Badding, a professor of chemistry at Penn, said: "One of our wildest dreams for the nanomaterials we are developing is that they could be used to make the super-strong, lightweight cables that would make possible the construction of a “space elevator”, which so far has existed only as a science-fiction idea." The discovery shows that the nanothreads include a long strand of carbon atomswhich resemble the fundamental unit of a diamond. more»

Windows 9 looms into view Posted: 22 Sep 2014 06:38 AM PDT While very many people haven't yet upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1, and very many people have stuck with Windows XP, it seems that Microsoft will show off Windows 9 soon. Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows has delivered some Windows 9 screenshots from sources he is not ready to name in advance of Windows Technical Preview – due out in October. more»

4G phones enter price war phase Posted: 22 Sep 2014 06:27 AM PDT Fierce competition in the smartphone chipset and microprocessor market means prices of devices are likely to drop next year. Smartcom, Qualcomm, Marvell and Broadcom are all competing in offering 32-bit quad core devices all hovering around the $8 to $9 mark.  more»

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