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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Takes Over, Sony exits PCs

Ballmer still lurking on the Board of Directors though -- 

Inside the Microsoft CEO Search: How Satya Nadella Was Chosen - WSJ.com: "...On Monday, Mr. Ballmer finished moving out of his office in Building 34, the Microsoft campus home to many senior executives ... Ballmer, remains a presence in addition to his board seat. The billionaire will become Microsoft's largest individual shareholder next quarter if Mr. Gates continues selling his shares for his philanthropic activities. As of Tuesday evening, Mr. Nadella's belongings were ready for the move into his new corner office."

Sony to exit PCs, spin off TV business, eliminate 5000 positions
Los Angeles Times
Sony Corp. is exiting the PC market, announcing Thursday that it was selling its Vaio personal computer division. The Japanese company said the move came after a "comprehensive analysis of factors, including the drastic changes in the global PC industry."...

Gates Spends Entire First Day Back in Office Trying to Install Windows 8.1 : The New Yorker: "A Microsoft spokesman said only that Mr. Gates’ first day in his new job had been “a learning experience” and that, for the immediate future, he would go back to running Windows 7." (parody)

If History Is Any Lesson, Facebook's Newest App Is Doomed To Fail - Business Insider: "...Think of Paper as your News Feed, but in a gorgeous layout designed for your smartphone's screen. You can even write your own posts, view notifications, and send Facebook messages within the app. In short, it has most of the functionality as the regular Facebook app, just wrapped in a prettier package. And that means there's very little reason for someone to use Paper. It may look gorgeous, but Paper doesn't offer much more than a hint at the future of Facebook's app design. Outside of the curated story lists from Facebook's editors, Paper just shows you the same content you'd read in your News Feed anyway...."

Skilled, Cheap Russian Hackers Power American Cybercrime - NBC News.com: ".... what can the US do to curb the rise of cybercrime from Russia? The short answer is: not much. Companies are going to have to spend more and more resources to protect themselves and learn to be more open about attacks when they happen....The scale of the damage done at Target might help explain why the FBI’s new director, James Comey, told a congressional committee that cyber threats are eclipsing terrorism as the main threat we face as a nation."

Investors dump Twitter stock as results divide Wall Street | Reuters: "Twitter Inc's shares fell almost 25 percent on Thursday, wiping out about $9.8 billion in market value, after the company reported a sharp slowdown in user growth..."

HTML5 Catches Up To Apple – ReadWrite: "As Apple’s market share slips to Google's surging little green robot, developers are increasingly turning to HTML5 as a way to embrace both iOS and Android...."

Former HP stars Bradley, Donatelli on brink of exit - sources | Reuters: "...Two sources who spoke to both executives said they disagreed with aspects of Whitman's vision, which involved transforming HP into a provider of servers, storage and networking to corporations, rather than taking on Apple Inc. or Samsung in mobile computing...."

Steve Wozniak: Apple Should Make an Android Phone | Gadget Lab | Wired.com: "“There’s nothing that would keep Apple out of the Android market as a secondary phone market,” said Wozniak–who, it should be noted, is no longer involved in the day-to-day workings of the company. “We could compete very well. People like the precious looks of stylings and manufacturing that we do in our product compared to the other Android offerings. We could play in two arenas at the same time.”"

Snipers took down major grid systems in California last year and it could have been a dress rehearsal — Tech News and Analysis: "According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, last April, in the middle of the night, snipers opened fire for almost 20 minutes on a substation next to a freeway south of San Jose, California, and knocked out seventeen transformers that direct power around Silicon Valley. They also cut the nearby telephone cables. It took a month to fix all the damage — the attackers are still unknown...."

Is there a place for Amazon in the gaming market?
Washington Post
Amazon has acquired gaming studio Double Helix, resparking rumors that the tech giant is looking to step more fully into the world of video games. Double Helix is best known for producing the Xbox One launch game “Killer Instinct,” and is based in Irvine, ...

Nadella's rise renews appeals for Office on iPad, Android tablets
Computerworld
Computerworld - The anointment of new CEO Satya Nadella has renewed calls by analysts that Microsoft free its profitable Office franchise from Windows and release full-featured versions for Google's Android and Apple's iOS tablets. "Nadella should focus ...

15 Years Later, Google Remembers Its First Data Center
PC Magazine
Google data centers are now sprawling high-tech meccas. But 15 years ago, they weren't nearly as impressive. 0shares. Google Data Center. These days, Google's data centers are like sprawling high-tech meccas where you'll find rows upon rows of ...

Prosthetic hand with feeling: Re-creating the brain-hand connection
Los Angeles Times
The human hand is a wonder of strength, sensitivity and discrimination — not only because of those four fingers and the opposable thumb, but also because of the human brain that controls it. No wonder, then, that for those who design hand prostheses, ...

With Its Tiny PC, Google Makes a Play for Your Conference Room
Wired
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA — Inside Google offices across the globe, company engineers and other employees have long communicated over internet video-conferencing systems developed by the tech giant itself. Googlers call it the “VC” link — a video ...

Patent trolls watch out - Apple and Google join forces to make you think twice: "Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) are today heading a group of 15 companies which have formed a rather unlikely alliance to call on the United States Supreme Court for a strong shift in litigation rules. The highly litigious companies, which frequently level charges of patent infringement against each other on a scale most “patent trolls” cannot match, want the Supreme Court justices to smooth the way for companies to more readily recover legal expenses from patent holders whose claims fail to be legally upheld against a tech company."

Facebook is 10 years old. And half of users are sick of the oversharing.: "... over half of users dislike people sharing too much information about themselves on the social network according to new survey data from Pew, with 36 percent "strongly" disliking oversharing. And the same proportion strongly dislikes when others post pictures or other things about them without asking for permission...."

PNG Image Metadata Found Leveraging iFrame Injections | Threatpost - English - Global - threatpost.com: "Researchers have discovered a relatively new way to distribute malware that relies on reading  JavaScript code stored in an obfuscated PNG file’s metadata to trigger iFrame injections...."

BBC News - Apple's Mac OSX imitated in latest North Korea system: "... devices are heavily restricted. Internet access, for instance, is locked down, with most users able to visit only a handful of sites mostly serving up state-sponsored news. The Red Star OS is peppered with North Korean propaganda, and its calendar tells users it is not 2014, but 103 - the number of years since the birth of former North Korean leader Kim Il-sung."

Typo keyboard maker goes on offensive against BlackBerry | PCWorld: "Typo Products, the start-up being sued by BlackBerry over an iPhone keyboard add-on, has come out swinging against a demand that its product be taken off sale in the U.S...."

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What Microsoft doesn't "get" -- PCs and post-PC devices are "different"

Microsoft - nothing like losing your core market (PCs) while foolishly chasing markets (tablets, smartphones) where you can neither be #1 nor #2 (remember what Jack Welch said while at GE--Earthgrains CEO Barry Beracha says companies should have a very good reason before abandoning the No. 1 or 2 strategy. "If you're 3 or lower, you have to have a product niche or be unique or innovative," and Microsoft isn't any of those)--

Here's why PCs and post-PC devices are different things (and why they need to stay that way) | ZDNet: " . . .The Windows 8 Project, with Windows RT, Windows 8, Metro-style/whatever-style, and Surface highlights this problem by showing what happens if you do try and combine those two worlds together. Even if that combining is done with skill and care, as I'm sure it was.) So we shouldn't combine them. PCs are great at what they do, and lousy at the other stuff. The reverse of that applies to post-PC devices too. This last point is why no one is ever suggesting that people replace PCs at work with smartphones and tablets. That makes no sense. PCs are really, insanely great at the work stuff. Post-PC devices in that context would just get in the way. How post-PC devices help with our work lives is a) complex and b) a story for another day. Keep 'em separate. And a smartphone is not a PC. And neither is your tablet. Your PC is, however, a PC."

Microsoft Corporation Is Doing Well Where It Counts, Poorly Everywhere Else: "To put it simply, what's good for the Business and Server divisions is good for Microsoft. Windows RT and Phone are unlikely to provide either division with much follow-on business - and that makes them distractions. Windows 8 and Surface are intended to ensure Microsoft's presence in the workplace, where its productivity software is legion - and that makes them important. There may be good reasons to fight over the consumer device market, but Microsoft's future is in the office, where it can offer a combination of mobility and functionality that post-PC devices can't match. So far, enterprise adoption of Windows 8 has been slow - very slow - compared to Windows 7, but we need to keep in mind that it's really competing with iOS and Android. "

GTV Hacker » Blog Archive » Chromecast: Exploiting the Newest Device By Google.: "Is it really ChromeOS?No, it’s not. We had a lot of internal discussion on this, and have concluded that it’s more Android than ChromeOS. To be specific, it’s actually a modified Google TV release, but with all of the Bionic / Dalvik stripped out and replaced with a single binary for Chromecast. Since the Marvell DE3005 SOC running this is a single core variant of the 88DE3100, most of the Google TV code was reused. So, although it’s not going to let you install an APK or anything, its origins: the bootloader, kernel, init scripts, binaries, are all from the Google TV . . . ." (read more at link above)

Microsoft expands bug info-sharing program to larger crowd

Computerworld
Computerworld - Microsoft today announced an expansion of a program that ... The current Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) will be scrapped, said ...

Is Microsoft the answer to the cloud quandary?

Computerworld
Computerworld - First, some background: I have often been a very vocal basher of Microsoft. As of a few years ago, I now run Apple stuff because I got sick of ...

Google trumpets early success of Play game services on Android

VentureBeat
Google isn't doing much with Play game services that developers haven't seen with Apple's Game Center or Microsoft's Xbox Live. Those services feature the ...

Google enlists student filmmakers from 5 colleges to use Google Glass

Washington Post
LOS ANGELES — Beauty is in the eye of the Google Glass wearer. ... Google is enlisting film students from five colleges to help it explore how its wearable ...

Apple making cheaper iPhones at Chinese factory that mistreats workers, group ...
San Jose Mercury News
CUPERTINO -- A human-rights group recently infiltrated a Chinese factory that is making a new iPhone offering from Apple (AAPL) and found dozens of violations of labor rights, according to a report the group released Monday. "At this moment, in Shanghai, ...

Google asked to remove 100 million 'piracy' links in 2013

BBC News
The embarrassing request was made on Microsoft's behalf by LeakID, an anti-piracy specialist, according to Torrentfreak.com. Google spotted the mistake and ...

APPLE'S iPad is slumping in market share, according to new ...

Irish Independent
Rival devices -- mostly based on Google's Android operating system -- have ... The industry figures also showed that Microsoft has increased its share of the ...

Google debuts new Zagat app for Android and iOS, redesigned ...

Alexis Santos
In this fresh incarnation, Google's lifted a registration requirement that was previously necessary to peruse reviews online. Schmidt and Co.'s redesigned ...Engadget RSS Feed

Google Chromecast vs. Apple TV - Gizmag

Will Shanklin
We know Google's new Chromecast is cheap (US$35), but is it a legit rival to, say, the Apple TV? Gizmag compares the specs (and other features) of the Chrom.Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine 

Working In An Amazon Warehouse - Business Insider

Megan Rose Dickey
Working at an Amazon fulfillment center can be quite laborious and monotonous. ... Pictures Taken Undercover In Apple's Chinese iPhone Factories Show Filth. ... Google Chromebooks Aren't Completely Dead: 20 Percent Of IT.Tech 

Xbox One: Microsoft looking into bundled headsets | VG247

Dave Cook
Xbox One consoles may come bundled with a headset at some point down the line, following confirmation from a Microsoft exec that the possibility is being ...VG247 

Google Babel to bring instant translations - Phandroid

Edgar Cervantes
The Google Babel project didn't stop at unifying Hangouts. It is here to stay and change the way we all handle translations. Can you imagine real-time ...Android Phone Fans 

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Farm Robots to Make Migrant Worker Vegetable Pickers Obsolete; Welcome the "Lettuce Bot", the "Grape Bot", the "Strawberry Bot": "Natural News reports Farm robots to make human ag workers obsolete within a decade."

Architizer - Apple Grand Central Preview

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Photo: Mark LennihanAssociated Press Apple's newest outlet at Grand Central ... Apple said that the pared-down design, which lacks the ubiquitous glass ...Architizer Blog

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