Wednesday, 23 February 2011
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Monday, 7 February 2011
AOL buys Huffington Post: reaction...
On the whole the first wave of reactions have been positive. AOL, as an internet company trying to make a comeback, is to buy one of the most popular news sites in the US, is, on the face of it, a good news story for both the technology and media worlds. And the fact that, for the moment, Arianna Huffington, the colourful co-founder and editor in chief of The Huffington Post, is staying with her creation and taking over the rest of AOL’s content site, bodes well for the ailing AOL.
Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, said: “Arianna [Huffington] is one of the pre-eminent authors and editors of our time and Tim [Armstrong, chief executive of AOL] has a remarkable track record of business success. Bringing them together creates tremendous potential for AOL.”
Twitter’s co-founder Biz Stone added: “Editorial vision and leadership are essential in order to transmute our shared cacophony of voices into a valuable dialogue. Arianna’s expertise, empathy, and entrepreneurial enthusiasm forms a kind of alchemy, turning mere words and phrases into powerful expressions of humanity.”
Paul Carr, a technology journalist for TechCrunch, a technology news website recently acquired by AOL which will now fall under Huffington’s leadership, also voiced his praise for the deal: “Now, no-one here has been more skeptical than me of AOL’s content strategy…And yet and yet, for once I find myself applauding Armstrong – and AOL as a whole – for pulling off a double whammy: a brilliant strategic acquisition at a logical price.”
However, Steve Case, AOL’s co-founder, was less than complimentary upon hearing the news of the deal. AOL has a bad reputation for making mergers and acquisitions work post its massively high profile failed merger with Time Warner – which Jeff Bewkes, the current chief executive of Time Warner recently told The Telegraph was the “biggest mistake in corporate history”.
Read more here.... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8308131/AOL-buys-Huffington-Post-reaction.html
Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, said: “Arianna [Huffington] is one of the pre-eminent authors and editors of our time and Tim [Armstrong, chief executive of AOL] has a remarkable track record of business success. Bringing them together creates tremendous potential for AOL.”
Twitter’s co-founder Biz Stone added: “Editorial vision and leadership are essential in order to transmute our shared cacophony of voices into a valuable dialogue. Arianna’s expertise, empathy, and entrepreneurial enthusiasm forms a kind of alchemy, turning mere words and phrases into powerful expressions of humanity.”
Paul Carr, a technology journalist for TechCrunch, a technology news website recently acquired by AOL which will now fall under Huffington’s leadership, also voiced his praise for the deal: “Now, no-one here has been more skeptical than me of AOL’s content strategy…And yet and yet, for once I find myself applauding Armstrong – and AOL as a whole – for pulling off a double whammy: a brilliant strategic acquisition at a logical price.”
However, Steve Case, AOL’s co-founder, was less than complimentary upon hearing the news of the deal. AOL has a bad reputation for making mergers and acquisitions work post its massively high profile failed merger with Time Warner – which Jeff Bewkes, the current chief executive of Time Warner recently told The Telegraph was the “biggest mistake in corporate history”.
Read more here.... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8308131/AOL-buys-Huffington-Post-reaction.html
Thursday, 3 February 2011
Monday, 17 January 2011
Apple iPhone 5 & iPad 2 To Come With New A5 CPU
More rumours have emerged regarding the hardware configuration of the iPhone 5, the iPad 2 and the next Apple TV and they all point towards a new CPU.
Engadget says that the new Apple devices will come with a new A5 CPU, which will be based on the Cortex A9 and may come with multiple cores.
This is not a total surprise, given that Samsung - Apple's manufacturing partner - has already announced the Samsung Orion, which features similar specifications.
The processor, according to Engadget's sources, will be extremely fast and will run 1080p graphics effortlessly. Qualcomm doesn't yet have plans to release a Cortex A9-based processor, so it's possible that Apple's engineers have come up with their own customised version.
We doubt that Apple will need a dual-core Cortex A9 processor at this stage, having been able to squeeze the two generations of iPhone from a single-core A8 processor.
A Cortex A9 will add 20 per cent in terms of performance at equivalent clock speeds and with a few more tweaks, a single-core A5 could end up being significantly more powerful than the A4, while consuming much less power.
Read more: http://www.itproportal.com/2011/01/17/apple-iphone-5-ipad-2-come-new-a5-cpu/#ixzz1BIrIPaPz
Engadget says that the new Apple devices will come with a new A5 CPU, which will be based on the Cortex A9 and may come with multiple cores.
This is not a total surprise, given that Samsung - Apple's manufacturing partner - has already announced the Samsung Orion, which features similar specifications.
The processor, according to Engadget's sources, will be extremely fast and will run 1080p graphics effortlessly. Qualcomm doesn't yet have plans to release a Cortex A9-based processor, so it's possible that Apple's engineers have come up with their own customised version.
We doubt that Apple will need a dual-core Cortex A9 processor at this stage, having been able to squeeze the two generations of iPhone from a single-core A8 processor.
A Cortex A9 will add 20 per cent in terms of performance at equivalent clock speeds and with a few more tweaks, a single-core A5 could end up being significantly more powerful than the A4, while consuming much less power.
Read more: http://www.itproportal.com/2011/01/17/apple-iphone-5-ipad-2-come-new-a5-cpu/#ixzz1BIrIPaPz
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