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Hewlett-Packard (HP) has confirmed that it is in talks to buy the information technology provider Electronic Data Systems (EDS). Confirming a report in the Wall Street Journal, which indicated that HP was close to a deal to buy EDS for between $12billion and $13billion.
Byteandswitch.com has more details
A very cool world wide near real time mapping of Wikipedia edits.
At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, The Grid is a new network, in effect a parallel internet, is now built, using fibre optic cables that run from Cern to 11 centres in the United States, Canada, the Far East, Europe and around the world.
The power of the grid will become apparent this summer after what scientists at Cern have termed their “red button” day – the switching-on of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the new particle accelerator built to probe the origin of the universe. The grid will be activated at the same time to capture the data it generates.
The grid has been built with dedicated fibre optic cables and modern routing centres, meaning there are no outdated components to slow the deluge of data. The 55,000 servers already installed are expected to rise to 200,000 within the next two years.
Britain alone has 8,000 servers on the grid system meaing in theory any student or academic will be able to hook up to the grid rather than the internet from this autumn.
The London Times has details on The Grid
The London Times investigates how the internet is transforming Britain
Google have announced a new tool for publishers Google Ad Manager beta. Designed for ad management and serving needs of smaller publishers.
” Google Ad Manager is a free, hosted ad and inventory management tool that can help publishers sell, schedule, deliver and measure their directly-sold and network-based ad inventory.” More details at The Official Google Blog.
Today at Apple’s iPhone-for-Business Event Steve Jobs announced figures for the iPhones market penetration
28% of the smartphone market and incredibly represents
71% of U.S. mobile Internet usage.
Source WSJ Live Blogging at the iPhone-for-Business Event
Apple also annouced it’s iPhone SDK (Software Developers Kit) as part of the new iPhone Enterprise Beta Program.
Added:Engadget has a great slide show of the iPhone SDK Press conference.
Digital Trends is reporting on a Google philanthropic project to provide phone numbers and voice mail to the homeless.
Google partnered with Project Homeless Connect to make the program happen. Although only San Francisco homeless shelters are currently able to set up accounts, Google eventually hopes to push the service nationwide.
Heritage.org have compiled their 2008 Index of Economic Freedom
1 – Hong Kong – [90.3]
2 – Singapore – [87.4]
3 – Ireland – [82.4]
4 – Australia – [82.0]
5 – United States – [80.6]
6 – New Zealand – [80.2]
7 – Canada – [80.2]
8 – Chile – [79.8]
9 – Switzerland – [79.7]
10 – United Kingdom – [79.5]
The Freedoms assessed were
Business Freedom, Trade Freedom, Fiscal Freedom,
Freedom from Government, Investment Freedom,
Financial Freedom, Property Rights,
Freedom from Corruption and Labor Freedom.
The Economic Times is reporting the State run telecom operator BSNL and the US based WiMax solutions firm Soma Networks are to deploy a new network covering 4 states (Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Goa) and 200, 000,000 people. The network should complete by 2010 with the first stage going live in June or July this year.
GPM Group 