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- ARM sets up shop in Taiwan
- Microsoft's open sauce war ends
- Pirate Bay founder arrested in Sweden
- Confusion hits the networking market
- Google wants to stop white male dominance
| Posted: 02 Jun 2014 01:09 AM PDT ARM will announce its first CPU Design Centre in Taiwan at Computex 2014. The fabless chip designer, normally based in Blighty wants to set up a centre dedicated to the next generation of Cortex-M class cores for IoT and wearables. Arm will hire 40-50 individuals within the talent pool in 2014. Word on the street is that ARM is planning a large press event which will be geared towards demand for ARM processors and the uses of Cortex-M within an ecosystem that counts sixteen billion processors shipped so far. The announcement of the Taiwan office is likely to come out of that event. ARM is expected to be working with research institutes to grow and scale, with the aim to produce important engineers with experience in the field. Taiwan is seen as a focal point of the industry with respect to the large number of ARM's semiconductor partners in the region. It is the fourth CPU design centre in the world and it looks like this will specialise in low end sensor based wearables, and the high power models requiring sensor calculation relating to features such as HUDs, particularly in the professional and medical markets. ARM is developing MBED, a platform for embedded developers incorporating an OS and a system of tools to help bring ideas to fruition. It looks like MBED will be open source, with libraries and web based tools allowing developers to mix and match microcontrollers, radios, sensors and software stacks. |
| Microsoft's open sauce war ends Posted: 02 Jun 2014 01:08 AM PDT The days of Microsoft considering Open Source as a "cancer" and "un-American" are over according to Forrester analyst Jeffrey Hammond,. According to CNET, the long running hatred of Open Sauce goes back to 1976, when co-founder Bill Gates published an open letter chiding hobbyists for using Microsoft's Altair Basic program without paying for it. Microsoft Open Source as a threat to the way it sold software and services and went on the PR offensive and claimed that 'Open source was an intellectual-property destroyer. Former Windows chief Jim Allchin famously quipped in 2001. ''I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business''. The shy and retiring Steve Ballmer said that that Linux was a cancer that "attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches". Now according to Mark Hill, Vole's feud with open source has been sputtering for quite some time, and the senior managers who led the anti-open source charge have left the Vole hill. Open source is now routinely used by corporations around the world, and the company's sniffy put-downs only fed into the perception of Microsoft as out of touch. Hammond said that there had been a real change in Microsoft's attitude. He said that there were many example where Microsoft is integrating with, and even creating open source in an effort to grow market share and support customers. "The real world isn't black and white -- and there are open-source companies that sell proprietary software and proprietary companies that use OSS to augment their commercial software and make it more attractive. As developer adoption of open-source software has grown to the 70 percent-plus level, I think most business units at Microsoft realized that treating it like 'a cancer' was self-defeating -- they lost that battle a long time ago." Last month, the company finally made official its unofficial decision to incorporate some open-source code into its developer and programming languages. More recently, Microsoft put 22-year company veteran Mark Hill in charge of a global group to cultivate open-source developers to write applications that work with Azure, the Microsoft cloud service that competes against the likes of Rackspace, Google, and Amazon. . |
| Pirate Bay founder arrested in Sweden Posted: 02 Jun 2014 01:06 AM PDT One of the founders of file-sharing website Pirate Bay has been arrested in southern Sweden and ordered to serve an outstanding sentence for copyright violations. Peter Sunde has been on the run for nearly two years and had been wanted by Interpol since 2012 after being sentenced in Sweden to prison and fined for breaching copyright laws. Carolina Ekeus, spokeswoman at the Swedish National Police Board, said Sunde was given eight months in jail so he has to serve his sentence. Sunde was arrested on Saturday in the southern Swedish county of Skane but Ekeus was not able to provide further details. The Pirate Bay four were originally sentenced to one year in prison and fined $4.8 million. An appeals court later reduced the prison sentences by varying amounts, but raised the fine to $6.9 million. In September, 2012, Cambodia arrested and deported another Pirate Bay co-founder at Sweden's request. Sunde may have been living in Germany in recent years and Sweden's Supreme Court had, as recently as May, rejected an appeal from him. Pirate Bay, launched in 2003, provided links to music and movie files that were stored on other users' computers. The website is still functioning. On its website, Pirate Bay says it is now run by a different organisation and is registered in the Seychelles. |
| Confusion hits the networking market Posted: 02 Jun 2014 01:04 AM PDT The enterprise networking market appears to be down the loo, and how badly depends on which analyst you ask for the numbers. Beancounters at IDC says the first quarter value was $5.2 billion, while Dell'Oro Group claims it was $5 billion. IDC said the market lost 12.3 percent from the fourth quarter of 2013 – down around $US730 million – while Dell'Oro said the market lost a billion compared to the previous quarter. About the only thing the two could agree on was that that Layer 2 / 3 Ethernet was tanking because pesky enterprises were shifting to WiFi because it is faster and more useful. IDC said that there had been some large shipments in the data centre market which might have saved the likes of Cicso’s bacon. Network infrastructure VP Rohit Mehra was quoted as saying “10GbE and 40GbE switch ports for the datacentre and campus core remain the growth engine for this market, although we do expect the GbE market to hold its own with port shipments during the coming years.” Dell'Oro said that “data centre switching paused as Cisco’s Nexus 9000 product transition continued”. IDC said Cisco commands more than 60 percent share of the Layer 2/3 market – slightly down in the quarter – a 4.3 percent revenue decline has an impact on the whole business. Cisco's service and enterprise router revenue dipped by 1.8 percent. HP added 4.6 percent Ethernet switch revenue, while Juniper rose 53.4 percent for the same segment over the same period. Dell'Oro said that the “white box” switch market nicked market share and value from the name vendors. However it was not all bad. Dell'Oro said that future data centre business and the uncertain Chinese market, as offering hopeful signals or the future. IDC thinks that data centre business will keep the industry alive in the long term. |
| Google wants to stop white male dominance Posted: 02 Jun 2014 01:01 AM PDT Google has decided to do something about the fact that most of its 50,000 employees are white men. According to the outfit, of its overall worldwide workforce, 70 percent are male, while in the company's tech department it's even more pronounced: only 17 percent of staff are women. In the US, six out of ten 'Googlers' are white and three out of ten are Asian. Just three percent are Hispanic and two percent are black. Google has said that it is publishing its figures because it is not where it wants to be when it comes to diversity and wants to fully address the matter. Laszlo Bock, senior vice president of people operations at Google, said the outfit had been reluctant to publish numbers about the diversity of the Google workforce. However that was wrong as it was time to be candid. "We're the first to admit that Google is miles from where we want to be – and that being totally clear about the extent of the problem is a really important part of the solution," he said. Apple, Twitter and Amazon have also been criticised lately for a lack of women or people from ethnic minorities in high positions. It is not clear what Google plans to do about the matter after putting its hands up. Our guess is that they will have to bring in some form of positive discrimination programme until the problem goes away. But it will take a while before the right man for the job is a woman. |
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