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28 February, 2014
Google is aiming to sell $50 customisable modular phones by early next year. The company told Time magazine it is continuing to work on Project Ara, an effort to create phones that users can easily modify by switching their parts as though they are Lego blocks.
Labels:
Ethical,
research,
Sustainability
25 February, 2014
Last June, in an interview with Adam Bryant of The New York Times, Laszlo Bock, the senior vice president of people operations for Google - ie, the guy in charge of hiring for one of the world’s most successful companies - noted that Google had determined that academic results weren’t very important. ‘‘[Grade point averages] are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless ...We found that they don’t predict anything.’’ He also noted that the ‘‘proportion of people without any college education at Google has increased over time’’ - now as high as 14 per cent on some teams.
24 February, 2014
FACEBOOK’S $21bn deal for WhatsApp in part is a move to bolster the US company’s position abroad. But in Asia, Facebook still has its work cut out for it. That is because in Asia, even more so than on Facebook’s home turf, the growing social media market is on mobile phones. And if Facebook wants to be as dominant on smartphones in Asia as it has been on personal computers, WhatsApp will need to lure users away from three popular apps in the region: Naver’s Line, Tencent Holdings’ WeChat, and Kakao’s Kakao Talk.
Labels:
Asia Connection,
Social
A major flaw in Apple devices could allow hackers to intercept email and other communications that are meant to be encrypted, the company says. Apple released a fix on Friday for mobile devices running iOS, such as iPhones, iPads and iPods. The company said it will issue a software update "very soon" to cut off the ability of spies and hackers to grab email, financial information and other sensitive data from Mac computers.
Labels:
Critical + Creative Thinking,
Cybersafety
Facebook has made its boldest business move ever, buying the mobile-messaging service WhatsApp in a deal worth about $US19 billion ($21 billion) in cash and stock. That is six times what Google paid for Nest in January, and 19 times what Facebook paid for Instagram two years ago. It is so much money that people found themselves reaching beyond the business realm for context. Development expert Charles Kenny compared the purchase price to the total annual lending of the World Bank.
Labels:
History,
ICT Career,
Intellectual Property,
Social
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