Quote For the Week!

"We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude."


Charles R. Swindoll 


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IBM Appoint first Female Chief Executive

For the first time ever, IBM has appointed a female Chief Executive. 

Virginia Rometty, currently a senior vice president, will take over from the current chief executive, Sam Palmisano, in January. Mr Palmisano, who took the top job in 2002, will step aside whilst remaining chairman of IBM.

Commentators describe, Ms. Rometty, known to most as “Ginni”, as the ‘logical’ choice, given her experience running the largest portion of the business by revenue.

She joins a relatively small circle of top female chief executives, including Pepsi's Indra Nooyi, Xerox's Ursula Burns, Kraft Foods' Irene Rosenfeld and DuPont's Ellen Kullman.  Recently, Hewlett-Packard - a longtime rival to IBM - appointed Meg Whitman as its boss.

Nokia to be Reborn with Windows Phone

Nokia have shown faith in the future of Windows Phone and launched two new smartphones based on Microsoft's new operating system.

The Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710 mark the beginning of Nokia's fight back against Apple's iPhone and rivals using Google's Android software.  Until recently, Nokia, were the world's largest maker of smartphones.  All future Nokia smartphones will be built on the Windows Phone 7.5 operating system, otherwise known as Mango. 

New boss, Stephen Elop, believes that the launch of the new range, that includes four new basic phones, will mark the "rebirth" of Nokia.

In an unusual move for the company, it will start shipping the Lumia 800 range almost immediately and hit the shops in France, Germany, Italy, UK, Spain and the Netherlands in November.

No Link between Cancer and Mobile Phones According to New Study

The health risks associated with mobile phone use have been much debated over the last 20years, but the latest study suggests that there is no link between mobile phones and brain cancer. 

The study led by the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Denmark looked at more than 350,000 people with mobile phones over an 18-year period.  The researchers concluded that users were at no greater risk than anyone else of developing brain cancer. The findings, published on the British Medical Journal website, come after a series of studies have come to similar conclusions.

However, there has also been some research casting doubt on mobile phone safety, prompting the World Health Organization to warn that they could still be carcinogenic. 

As the debate rages on, have the questions over mobile phone safety ever curbed your personal usage?  Do you take precautions against potential over use?

Quote for the Week!

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."

Theodore Roosevelt 


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HTC Dealt Disappointment in their battle with Apple

HTC has faced a major blow in their ongoing legal battle with Apple over patents. 

HTC had asked the court to ban imports of several Apple products in to the US citing patent infringements.  However, The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has ruled that Apple did not violate patents as claimed by HTC in a complaint lodged last year.

This is a further knock to HTC, whose shares fell 6% after the ruling.  Over the summer the Taiwanese phone maker was also found to have infringed two iPhone patents in a case brought by Apple at the ITC.  Despite the result, HTC are sticking to their guns.

"This is only one step of many in these legal proceedings. We are confident we have a strong case for the ITC appeals process and are fully prepared to protect our intellectual property," said Grace Lei, HTC's general counsel.

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Quote for the Week!

"Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals."


Paul J. Meyer 


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Dr. Dennis Ritchie, has died

Pioneering computer scientist, Dr. Dennis M. Ritchie, who helped shape the modern digital era by creating software tools that power things as diverse as search engines like Google and smartphones, was found dead on Wednesday at his home. He was 70.

Dr. Ritchie, who lived alone, was in frail health in recent years after treatment for prostate cancer and heart disease, said his brother Bill.

He was one of the creators of the hugely influential Unix operating system and the equally pioneering C programming language.  A vast number of modern technologies depend on the work he and fellow programmers did on Unix and C in the early days of the computer revolution.

Those paying respects said he was a "titan" of the industry whose influence was largely unknown.  It is thought his influence could rival that of Steve Jobs, but is just less visible.

Apple iOS 5 Downloading Problems

For die-hard Apple fans, the arrival of the new iOS 5 Apple Operating system has been long awaited, but problems downloading the software are not quite as welcome. 

The free software update, which promises 200 new features, has been so popular that Apple's servers appear to have struggled to keep up with demand.  Many users complained on Apple forums that the download was taking time, with some having to retry many times.  Others blame software bugs for "bricking" phones.

Technology consultant Jay Freeman said the problem was down to over-demand. But others thought the problems could be more serious.  One member of the public claimed that he experienced a hardware fault on his iPhone as a result of the download.  Stating that “if [he] had not updated the phone, it would be in perfect working order today".

Compensation Discussed for Blackberry Users

Consumer talk has turned to compensation following the Global Blackberry Blackout, but Research In Motion (RIM) have yet to comment on the speculation.

Blackberry's founder Mike Lazaridis has said services are "fully restored" following a three-day global blackout, but with millions of users affected and many turning to twitter to express their anger, is their any way back?

This is the largest crash the firm has ever experienced. Prior to the 2011 problems, the last significant blackout was in 2009.  With no answers as to why the switch failed or why the back up failed to kick in, the next priority is a "root cause analysis" of why there was a core switch failure within RIM's infrastructure.  Although, the server problems are believed to have originated at RIM's UK data centre in Slough.

When questioned on compensation for consumers following three days of disruption, Research In Motion declined to comment.  However, some operators, such as Telefonica owner of the UK's O2, are mulling whether to provide compensation for affected users.

Unsurprisingly, many corporate clients have switched to Apple iPhone after they made a concerted effort to improve its support for secure business email systems. News that couldn’t come at a worst time for RIM, who have been losing market share to Apple over the last few months.  That said; Apple’s newly-released operating system, iOS 5, has been causing problems for some users trying to download it this week!

So after a week of problems for smartphone users worldwide, it seems that all new technology comes with niggles, and unforeseen difficulties – we can either embrace new technology and understand this or stick with the tried and tested “brick” of a model that simply does the basics! 

Problems will always occur, but the test of the supplier is how they recover from them.  For the sake of competition, let’s hope RIM bounces back!

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