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January 10, 2011.
Intel and NVIDIA today announced that they have signed a “comprehensive long-term patent cross licensing” agreement. Intel will pay NVIDIA 1.5 billion dollars over a six year period in licensing fees. The agreement also stipulates that NVIDIA is prohibited from making chipsets for Intel’s Sandy Bridge processors.
Is this a case of Intelectual Property limiting innovations?
Forget CES 2011, US Government subpoenas Twitter over Wikileaks.
According to reports, US Government is asking Twitter for the identities and all available informations on Wikileaks followers. Sounds scary isn’t it?
From ZDNet:
Twitter is in a difficult position. Considering their stance during the Iranian elections supporting the freedom of speech, it will appear as if the company is backtracking or giving into pressure by handing over details of its users to its government.
Hypothetical questions regardless of what had happened:
From Washington Post (June 17, 2009):
The State Department asked social-networking site Twitter to delay scheduled maintenance earlier this week to avoid disrupting communications among tech-savvy Iranian citizens as they took to the streets to protest Friday’s reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Another question:
Can you have the cake and it it too?
As of this posting there are 634,942 Wikileaks followers on Twitter. (2011-01-08 21:05 Pacific Time)
UPDATE:
Now there are 634,676 Wikileaks followers on Twitter. (2011-01-08 23:40 Pacific Time)
There are 634,684 Wikileaks followers on Twitter. (2011-01-09 4:54 Pacific Time)
Should US Government subpoena blogging services such as WordPress for the accounts that ever mention Wikileaks in their Blog-post?
Thursday January 6th, 2011.
Mac App Store is scheduled to open today. Some sites are reporting that the Mac App Store will open at 12:00 PM Eastern Time or 5:00 PM UTC. As the zero hour draws near, it is unclear if Mac OS X 10.6.6 would be a required prerequisite for Macs to access the Mac App Store. According to some reports, Apple seeded Mac OS X 10.6.6 build 10J537 to Developers back in December 2nd, 2010.
We will see if Mac App Store requires Mac OS X 10.6.6 in 4 hours and 13 minutes from this original post time.
Windows on ARM architectures, who would’ve guessed? Actually the rumor mills had been talking about it. Today Microsoft announces support of System on a Chip Architectures From Intel, AMD, and ARM for next version of Windows.
Next version of Windows? Do you mean Windows 8?
Microsoft have not officially called the next version of Windows as Windows 8 yet.
Is it anything new?
Not really. Windows NT kernel was ported to PPC and DEC-Alpha back in the 90’s. Actually it took Microsoft’s way too long to add suports for ARM architecture.
What’s next?
Steve Ballmer’s CES Keynote at 6:30 PM Pacific Time. CNET is covering it Live.
Live Video feed, or is it?
It is CES week and there will be tons of keynotes coming from different companies preceding the main event. There’s Intel, LG, Microsoft, Motorola, Samsung, etc. delivering their keynotes. Then there will be tons of Press events. I’m not sure which one to follow.
Let’s hope for something really interesting, not just another rehash of CES 2010.
p.s. CNET will be bringing some live coverages of the keynotes and press events.
p.s.p.s. I want to buy new DSLR camera.
California has a new Governor who was also an old Governor. Exit Schwarzenegger, Enter Brown.
Jerry Brown, who was California’s 34th Governor from 1985 to 1983, has just been sworn in as California’s 39th Governor succeeding Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Does this mean Schwarzenegger would get a lot more screen time on “The Expendables” sequel? Sylvester Stallone knows.
Reports are coming in for Intel’s latest generation of Processors, codenamed Sandy Bridge. Anandtech has the review out while The Inquirer has a different take on Intel’s latest offerings.
Is it really true that Intel is going out of their way to please Hollywood Industries? Reuters’ report says so.
If you hate DRM on the chip, say “Go AMD!”?