A quick burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team
Rory CJ: "...while there's a promise that Autonomy will be run as a separate business, with Mike Lynch still in charge, this still looks like a sad day for British technology - and for Cambridge in particular."
"Those options could range from a sale to licensing. What to do with WebOS is just one issue facing HP as it attempts to reinvent itself. Here's a look at the options."
"An insider has given us details from an all-hands meeting HP just held with employees in the webOS Global Business Unit in light of today's announcement that HP will no longer make webOS devices. In the meeting, webOS GBU VP Stephen DeWitt made it clear that HP intends to continue to work on webOS and likely intends to license it. DeWitt was adamant, saying several times "We are not walking away from webOS." He detailed a plan to try to determine what the platform's future will look like within the next two weeks, although he admitted that "Clearly, we don't have all the answers today.""
Quite a lot. Though of course this shows revenue, not profit. The profit graph would be more interesting.
All you need to know about many Anonymous members in a single tweet: age, attitude, achievement.
Handy tips indeed.
Free phone charging? Think again. "Brian Markus, president of Aires Security, said he and fellow researchers Joseph Mlodzianowski and Robert Rowley built the charging kiosk to educate attendees about the potential perils of juicing up at random power stations. Markus explains the motivation behind the experiment:
"'We'd been talking about how dangerous these charging stations could be. Most smartphones are configured to just connect and dump off data,' Markus said. 'Anyone who had an inclination to could put a system inside of one of these kiosks that when someone connects their phone can suck down all of the photos and data, or write malware to the device.'"
Intriguing: "At a news conference following release of its first-half earnings, China Mobile (CHL) revealed Thursday that it has met several times with Steve Jobs to talk about Apple (AAPL) making an iPhone that would support its proprietary 3G standard, Reuters reports"
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