A few years ago, I was walking in a mall parking lot in Markham, Ontario. As I passed by rows on rows of Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Audi vehicles -- many with license plates ending in '888' -- one particular car caught my eye. On the trunk, it said "C250". However, something did not really add up for me. Not only did it have unusually wide rear tires and particularly beefy brakes with cross-drilled rotors, it also had quad exhausts at the back, and...
A month back, I was sitting in a review session for one of my last classes in university, going through some sample questions and thinking of possible answers. As this was my engineering ethics class, the topic of intellectual property came up. One of the questions was, "What determines how long a trade secret lasts?” Being the cheeky and tired person I was, I wrote down "The secrecy of the secret". I chuckled to myself, and continued taking...
From InfoWorld: A jury in San Francisco today cleared Google of copyright infringement in a case brought by Oracle over Google’s use of Java in Android.
The jury of eight women and two men took three days of deliberation to reach its verdict. Oracle was seeking up to $9 billion in damages, making...
From PC World: Windows 10 PC prices have been slowly creeping up, but some new back-to-school Switch tablet/laptop hybrid devices from Acer may be attractive to those on a shoestring budget.
The US$199 Switch One 10 is one of a few touchscreen hybrids priced under $200. Acer also announced the...
From CNET: The consumer electronics giant has explored putting a camera in its device, which could come in the form of a smart speaker like Amazon's Echo, according to people familiar with Apple's plans. The device would be "self aware" and detect who is in the room using facial recognition...
From ComputerWorld: Salesforce named Amazon Web Services as its preferred public cloud provider for services like Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and App Cloud, expanding an existing partnership to provide the backend for the software-as-a-service provider.
AWS already hosts several Salesforce services...
From CNET: Taiwanese device maker HTC has stopped manufacturing Google's flagship tablet, an HTC spokesman confirmed to CNET. The device was pulled from the Google Play store last month, though some models of the Nexus 9 remain on sale through HTC's website.
The winding down of the Nexus 9 without...
From PC World: Arduino, the Italian company that has powered the "maker" movement with a series of small computing boards that can be programmed and configured for different tasks, is introducing a board targeted at the so-called Internet of Things.
IoT encompasses the world of Internet-connected...
From InfoWorld: Apple has rehired a mobile encryption pioneer as it continues to face pressure from governments wanting access to user data stored on iPhones.
Jon Callas most recently worked as a co-founder of Silent Circle, which produced the security-minded Blackphone and has joined the iPhone...
From PC World: Down, but not out: Microsoft is laying off another 1,850 staff from its smartphone hardware business, but says it isn’t leaving the market completely.
What’s left of the old Nokia business in Finland will be hardest hit by the latest round of lay-offs, with up to 1,350 jobs to go...
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