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- Ballmer becomes motivational speaker
- London's digital tech to grow
- Infosys suffers from senior management crisis
- Chinese reveal Microsoft's control of Android
- Microsoft updates Windows 7 for Doctor Who
| Ballmer becomes motivational speaker Posted: 16 Jun 2014 02:06 AM PDT The shy and retiring former CEO of Microsoft Steve "there is a kind of hush" Ballmer could be about to embark on a new career as a motivational speaker. Ballmer, serving as the commencement speaker for the 2014 graduating class at the University of Washington ditched the ceremonial graduation cap and launched into a rousing 15 minute speech that seemed to wake up the previously sedate audience of graduates and professors. IN fact he managed to wake up most of Washington with his "Opportunity, Opportunity, Opportunity! It awaits you!" speech. "It's been a little low-key in here today for my taste," said Ballmer, stalking the stage in the way familiar to many Microsoft keynote viewers over the years. Ballmer took on a more serious tone when listing his three keys to success: Carpe diem (seize the day), have a point of view, and be hardcore. He told the audience that he did not know what got him to drop out of business school and come to Microsoft. "My parents thought I was a whack job. Neither one of them graduated college and they thought [Microsoft] was a wild idea. I was lucky, I seized the day," he said. Ballmer said he was in awe of the co-founder of Twitter and founder of Square, Jack Dorsey. He said the guy's life proved that point of view creates opportunity. He also called for people to hardcore - er like Nelson Mandela. When Microsoft first decided it wanted to sell software into businesses, people said it couldn't, Ballmer said. But the way around that was to be hardcore... "Think of Nelson Mandela... The constant, non-stop, long-term fight against apartheid that finally paid off. Opportunity is about seizing what's there. It is about having a point of view. But it's also about patience and determination Opportunity is about seizing what's there. It is about having a point of view. But it's also about patience and determination," he said. Things will not necessarily come to you — 'poof!' — immediately and overnight. You're going to have to be determined and long-term, he added to any poofs out there. Ballmer said that it does not matter if you don't know what you are doing after graduation. "I am 58-years-old and I, too, don't know what I'm doing again!" he said.
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| Posted: 16 Jun 2014 02:04 AM PDT The next ten years could be a period of growth for London's technology industry and create an additional $20 billion of economic activity and 46,000 new jobs by 2024, Beancounters working for promotional organisation London & Partners reckoned that over the next decade, London's digital technology sector could grow by 5.1 percent. But the bad news is that the growth will not mean Londoners will take the jobs. Instead Growth would be helped by proposed changes to immigration law that will give technology firms the right to bring in migrants on "exceptional talent" visas. It refers to Gross Value Added (GVA) and an average annual growth rate. The extra 46,000 jobs would be nearly 30 percent more than the 155,600 currently employed. Meanwhile South Mountain Economics said the broader tech/info sector in the British capital has agreed with the findings and said that London employed 382,000 workers in 2013, an increase of 11 percent since 2009. Tech and information businesses in London, southeast and east England are growing faster than in California, South Mountain Economics said. London is the world leader in financial technology employing more workers in the sector than New York City and San Francisco-Silicon Valley. There are an estimated 44,000 financial tech workers within 25 miles of London, it said, compared with 43,000 for New York and only 11,000 for San Francisco-Silicon Valley.     |
| Infosys suffers from senior management crisis Posted: 16 Jun 2014 01:58 AM PDT Indian outsourcing outfit Infosys is finding itself short of senior managers. The company issued a statement insisting that it had enough senior managers to run the business even if more executives clean out their desks and flee India's second-largest IT services exporter. N.R. Narayana Murthy played down the departure of at least 11 senior executives since he was brought back from retirement in June last year to help regain market share. "We are confident that we have enough budding leaders to handle any eventuality of some more people leaving us," Murthy, who stepped down as the chairman of the company on Saturday, told an annual shareholders meeting. Still the rate of exits is pretty grim. More than 18.7 percent left at the end of March which is 2.4 percentage points higher than a year earlier, out of a workforce of more than 160,000. Exits included at least 11 top executives, some of whom were responsible for key business sectors at the company, which was founded by Murthy and six other engineers in 1981. He said that he didn't want some of them anyway because they were "low performers." Why he hired limbo dancers in the first place is anyone's guess. Infosys has for the first time picked an outsider - Vishal Sikka, former senior executive at German software company SAP AG as CEO. Sikka, 47, is considered to be an innovator in the global software industry, particularly when it comes to software which is so esoteric no one is sure what it does. A computer scientist by training, he was key in developing and marketing SAP's flagship product, HANA, which is believed to help firms analyse large amounts of data quickly, or at least something like that.     |
| Chinese reveal Microsoft's control of Android Posted: 16 Jun 2014 01:56 AM PDT Microsoft has had a secret list of patents which amounts to a hold that Vole has over the Android operating system. We say secret, but it appears that a Chinese government action has forced Vole to make the list public for the first time. According to Ars Technica, Microsoft has revealed a few of those patents since as it has unleashed litigation against Android device makers. But for the most part, they've remained secret. Now a list of hundreds of patents that Microsoft believes entitle it to royalties over Android phones, and perhaps smartphones in general, has been published on a Chinese language website as part of a Chinese government antitrust review relating to Microsoft's purchase of Nokia. The patents Microsoft plans to wield against Android include things it has actually invented and patents that Microsoft acquired by participating in the Rockstar Consortium, which spent $4.5 billion on patents that were auctioned off after the Nortel bankruptcy. It seems that Microsoft was compelled to produce the list to appease Chinese regulators, who feared that the software giant could become more aggressive with its patents after the Nokia purchase. The longer list is divided into three sections: 73 patents that are said to be "standard-essential patents," or SEPs, implemented in smartphones generally, followed by 127 patents that Microsoft says are implemented in Android. The final section includes another section of "non-SEP" assets, which includes 68 patent applications and 42 issued patents. There are some patents that Microsoft used against Barnes & Noble, including all 14 mentioned in this 2011 Network World article. Those patents include Nos. 5,889,522 entitled "System Provided Child Window Controls," and 6,339,780 "Loading Status in a Hypermedia Browser Having a Limited Available Display Area." However there are some new patents, like 8,255,379 "Customer Local Search," 5,813,013 "Representing Recurring Events," and 6,999,047 "Locating and tracking a user in a wireless network through environmentally profiled data." Nortel patents now owned by Microsoft include 5,982,324, which describes combining GPS with cell signals in an "efficient position location system" said to be used in Android phones. More Nortel patents are in the "general smartphone" section, such as No. 6,430,174, which describes a communication system that supports simultaneous voice and multimedia. Vole has managed to build a huge patent licensing business by taxing Android phones without telling people what legal control they have. Vole collects between $1 billion and $2 billion from Android device makers paying royalties. By not disclosing which patents it had, it made it impossible for Google to come up with software which did not infringe.     |
| Microsoft updates Windows 7 for Doctor Who Posted: 16 Jun 2014 01:54 AM PDT Redmond has ordered Windows 7 users to apply an April update so they can receive June's patches for its Internet Exploder 11. Writing in its security bog, Vole said that in order to receive June's critical update (MS14-035) and all future IE 11 patches, users would need to speed up testing of April fix MS14-18, which addressed handling of objects in memory, KB2919355, or KB2929437. Effectively Microsoft has stopped serving security updates to Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) on consumer and small business Windows 7 PCs unless the customer has successfully applied an April update for the browser. The latest fix, released June 10, addressed 59 security vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, the most severe of which could allow remote code execution when users pointed their browsers to specially crafted web sites. "These vulnerabilities by themselves do not allow arbitrary code to be run. However, these vulnerabilities could be used in conjunction with another vulnerability (e.g., a remote code execution vulnerability) that could take advantage of the elevated privileges when running arbitrary code," Microsoft said in a MS14-035 note. "In addition, compromised websites and websites that accept or host user-provided content could contain specially crafted content that could exploit these vulnerabilities. "For example, an attacker could trick users into clicking a link that takes them to the attacker's site." Users running IE 11 would miss out on browser fixes without update 2919355 for Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2, or update 2929437 for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1. Microsoft has broadcast similar requirements for consumers and enterprises related to Windows 8.1. Any Windows 8.1 PC retrieving patches from Windows Update must have had Windows 8.1 Update installed to get June's security patches; businesses have until August 12 to do the same.     |
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