With $16bn in its pocket, half-reports are running rife about what’s next for Facebook. Is it a smart phone built using ex-Apple engineers? More acquisitions? A reported deal for Norwegian browser maker Opera makes sense for a company answerable to shareholders and that must get out from under Apple. Opera also means millions more customers [...]
Boot to Gecko, Mozilla’s open-source handset, is key for the web and Mozilla according to Mozilla’s Europe president Tristian Nitot. For Mozilla, it means life after Firefox and for mobile it means freedom and openness in a closed and controlled Apple and Google world. Can Mozilla convert the success it’s had with Firefox on the [...]
Oracle suffers a sudden loss of Java VM talent, bought with Sun Microsystems in 2010, to Adobe Systems. Signs are Adobe’s tuning a Flashless version of its ActionScript language that takes on ECMAsript cousin HTML5 in gaming. Read my exclusive on the Oracle exodus here.
Scientists are developing technology to crunch growing volumes of data for intensive apps like search. They are marrying Nobel-award winning work in graphene with new theories in RAM and electron spin to devise a chip architecture combining memory and logic they say spells the end of conventional silicon electronics. I spoke to the physics and [...]
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