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- ARM CEO has high hopes for Windows RT
- AMD doing well in India
- Comcast hijacks browsers for Big Content
- Bradley Manning admits ten spying charges
- Groupon CEO told to hop it
- Internet massively entrenched in UK society
| ARM CEO has high hopes for Windows RT Posted: 01 Mar 2013 02:56 AM PST ARM CEO Warren East still thinks Windows RT could be a success. During an interview at the sidelines of MWC in Barcelona, East said Microsoft will learn from its mistakes with RT and offer a better product. "I'm well aware there is a perceived wisdom that RT hasn't been as successful as lots of people thought it was going be. Quite certainly I'm sanguine about it," he told Infoworld. Sales of Windows RT devices remain sluggish and vendors aren't rushing to introduce new models. Acer announced that it will join the RT club this year, although it played it safe and did not introduce any products in 2012. East argued that Microsoft doesn't operate on the "wow" end of the market, but it still ships significant volumes. East hinted at a 64-bit version of Windows RT, which is in line with ARM's strategic thinking. Although ARM chips are still 32-bit, ARM's new ARMv8 architecture should bring 64-bit chips to mainstream consumers. However, volume shipments of 64-bit ARM parts are not expected until 2015. In any case, ARM is probably not too concerned, as its chips are used in practically all competing platforms, from Android and iOS, to Blackberry and Chrome OS. |
| Posted: 01 Mar 2013 02:48 AM PST While the rest of the PC market is in the doledrums, AMD is making a killing in India. According to beancounters at IDC, AMD India recorded its highest ever market share of 20.1 percent in the last quarter. The company has grown 12 times in India as compared to the market growth over the last year. Most of the surge took place in the commercial segment, with the company getting its highest ever market share of 27.1 percent. In the commercial desktops, AMD holds 22.4 percent of the market from 20.6 percent the quarter before. In the commercial notebook segment the company captured 31.4 percent of the market share meaning one in three Indian notebooks has an AMD inside. The report added that the consumer notebook market share stands at 14.4 percent, which is much better than the 3.1 percent in the first quarter of 2011. Ravi Swaminathan, Managing Director and Regional Vice President, Sales and Marketing, AMD India said in a statement that AMD India's success was thanks in part to targeted initiatives in both the enterprise and consumer space. AMD's APU technology, combining processing and graphic capabilities, also helped, he added. Swaminathan believes that everything will get even better when the outfit releases new APUs and graphic offerings in the first half of 2013. |
| Comcast hijacks browsers for Big Content Posted: 01 Mar 2013 02:44 AM PST Because no one in the US thought it was a good idea to reign in Big Content, it is now acceptable for an ISP to hijack a suspect pirate's browser. The ISP Comcast has revealed how it will deal with its customers under the new six strikes and you're out law. After four alerts the ISP will hijack web browsers of suspected serial pirates with annoying pop-ups. This will effectively make it impossible to browse the internet. The pop-up will only go away after the customer "resolves the issue" with a Customer Security Assurance professional. In common with other ISPs, Comcast will start out with friendly alerts informing customers that their account has been used to share copyrighted material, accompanied with an email listing details of the alleged infringement. But after four warnings, repeated offenders will then enter the "mitigation phase" during which their service will be interrupted. It is not clear how customers will be able to resolve the matter and what they will have to do remains a mystery. The ISP insists that you will not lose your account under the copyright alert program, it is just that you will not be able to use it. Comcast assures its customers that the browser hijack system has been tested for years, and that it should work smoothly. Clearly it believes that its technology will not be sinkable. According to Torrent Freak, the technology in question has been used to alert subscribers when their internet access device is infected by a malicious bot. It has not been tested against a user who fought against it. Comcast can be asked to hand over IP addresses of repeat infringers if they do not stop being pirates. The move will mean an end to the Open Wireless Movement. This has been allowing people to share their internet connection with neighbours or complete strangers. What is more likely to happen is that VPN providers and BitTorrent proxies will make a killing. Real pirates know how to avoid detection. It looks like the owners of automatic weapons have more freedoms in the US than those who use the internet. |
| Bradley Manning admits ten spying charges Posted: 01 Mar 2013 02:39 AM PST The US army soldier who leaked secret cables to Wikileaks has admitted ten spying charges. Bradley Edward Manning pleaded guilty to 10 charges that he illegally acquired and transferred US government secrets. He could serve up to 20 years in prison for what he has admitted so far. The 25-year-old soldier, however, pleaded not guilty to 12 more serious charges, including espionage for aiding the enemy. This means that his criminal case will go forward at a general court-martial in June. He could be locked up for the rest of his life if these charges stick. According to the LA Times, Manning admitted that he leaked the video of a helicopter gun battle, State Department cables, an Army field manual and Army documents on Iraq and Afghanistan that detailed the military's patrol reports there. He also admitted that he leaked confidential file assessments of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and five classified records from a US bombing in the Farah Province of Afghanistan, which killed up to 30 civilians. Asked repeatedly by the judge, Denise Lind, if he wanted to go forward with the guilty pleas, Manning answered "yes". Manning said that the Apache team in the video he leaked worried him. "They seemed not to value human life," he said in a statement. He compared the team in the now infamous 'Collateral Murder' video to a "child torturing an ant with a magnifying glass," the Guardian reports. So far he has spent 1,007 days in jail without trial. |
| Posted: 01 Mar 2013 02:32 AM PST Freshly fired Groupon CEO Andrew Mason has leaked news of his sacking to the great unwashed. Mason was apparently made to clean out his desk and pick up his pink slip for failing to stop the waves of doom crashing against the company. In an email, which he sent to Groupon staff and her majesties' loyal press, Mason put his hand up for missing expectations and the company's stock price. Mason said that a "fresh CEO" earns the company a crack at a second chance. Mason compared the running the company to the popular, though notoriously difficult 1991 video game Battletoads. He said that if Groupon was Battletoads, it would be like he made it all the way to the Terra Tubes without dying on his first ever play through. "I'll now take some time to decompress and then maybe I'll figure out how to channel this experience into something productive," he wrote. Mason said that after four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, "I decided that I'd like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding - I was fired.." The board was aligned behind the strategy it had shared over the last few months, and the company was working more effectively as a global company and it was time to give Groupon a relief valve from the public noise, he said. Mason said that he was OK with having failed at this part of the journey. "My biggest regrets are the moments that I let a lack of data override my intuition on what's best for our customers," Mason wrote. |
| Internet massively entrenched in UK society Posted: 28 Feb 2013 06:07 AM PST Almost all young adults in Britain used social media in 2012, with almost half of all adults following suit, according to the Office for National Statistics. Roughly 87 percent of 16 to 24 year olds used social networking, while 48 percent of adults did the same. 33 million adults used the internet every single day, over double the 2006 figure of 16 million when records began. 32 percent of all adults used their mobile to get online every single day. 32 percent of adults used the web to make telephone or video calls in 2012, again double a 2009 estimate of 16 percent. This was up four times from 2007's estimate of eight percent. The report noted that people are increasingly turning to the web for TV or the radio, and that what was once only available on the high street is now overwhelming available online. In 2012, nearly half of every adult in the country used online banking, and a two thirds majority shopped online. The heaviest users were aged between 25 to 44 for everyday activities like banking, reading news, buying groceries, household goods and clothes, but emerging activites such as social networking has the 16 to 24 bracket at the top. This group was also most keen on using smartphones to get online. 15 percent of all Brits have still never used the internet. |
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