Showing posts with label sale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sale. Show all posts
Monday, May 29, 2017
On Sale 9 Years Ago Following Cerebus 10
On Sale 9 Years Ago Following Cerebus 10
Art by Dave Sim & Gerhard
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Friday, May 12, 2017
Opera is now a Chinese company after 600 million sale
Opera is now a Chinese company after 600 million sale
Opera (and its browser) is now a Chinese company, after $600 million sale What’s a browser with 10 percent of the mobile market worth? $600 million, apparently. A consortium of Chinese companies led by Qihoo 360 purchased the browser and several other Opera assets, including the company’s name. Qihoo 360 is known in China for its mobile app store and anti-virus software. The US NSA probably wont be happy as a browser is a powerful Internet tool (the end-to-end encryption starts and ends here) and any existing NSA backdoors will now be switched for Chinese backdoors (Im stating this slightly tongue in cheek but it was amusing when the NSA were all out warning everyone not to buy Hauwei or ZTE network devices a few years back, when the key reason was that the NSA would have lost their own backdoors that were supposedly implanted in Cisco and other US network equipment, if it had been replaced with Chinese network routers and switches). A valid concern raised in the article though is what will happen to the VPN technology in the Opera browser? Can it be trusted in future? Could it be trusted in the past? See http://ift.tt/29JBDzY
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Wednesday, March 8, 2017
On that Microsoft Nokia sale
On that Microsoft Nokia sale
By now you would have read countless of op-eds about Nokias sale of their phone division to Microsoft. Suffice to say I have nothing to add, except that I am glad that we will still be getting Nokia phones, one way or another. Sure, phones with Nokia as a brand will go away eventually, but that would happen if Microsoft doesnt buy them anyway.
In fact, this whole sale reminds me of IBMs sale of their PC division to Lenovo. Many ThinkPad fans, like me, were understandably concerned that Lenovo would not have treated the brand with enough respect. Fortunately that hasnt been the case. Long time ThinkPad designers stayed on, and today Lenovo makes some of the best ThinkPad laptops we have ever seen. The same can happen with Nokias phone division if handled properly.
It will be a while before we will see the benefits from the sale. But heres hoping that Nokias phone hardware engineers and Microsofts software engineers will work closer than ever. Past Lumia hardwares has always been hampered by Microsofts lack of dedication to the Windows Phone platform, so a hardware division that could exert some influence on Microsofts software division will do some good.
In any case, this sale will at least gives us hope for a Lumia Surface phone with stonking good camera.
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