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Why PC Manufacturers Have to Start Paying Attention to Microchip-Maker Qualcomm
April 25, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
Qualcomm, maker of many of the microprocessors that power mobile phones and especially smartphones, released earnings on April 24, and they showed impressive growth considering that the company is already the third-largest microchip manufacturer in the world. Revenue was up 24% compared to a year earlier, and shipments of microchips ...
Bitcoin Takes an Important Step Toward Becoming Part of Web Browsers
April 25, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
A funny thing just happened: virtual currency bitcoin has now passed the first round of approval required to become a standard for the web, alongside other familiar “schemes” which allow elements on a webpage to, for example, open your email application when you click on an email address on a ...
How Twitter Accounts—Like the AP’s—Get Hacked
April 23, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
The Twitter account belonging to the Associated Press was just hacked and used to tweet that there were explosions at the White House. Markets immediately reacted accordingly, with the Dow dropping 144 points before recovering in minutes, demonstrating the power that such hacks have. While the people who run the ...
'Mobile' Computing No Longer Exists
April 11, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
Anyone who has an interest in the future of computing and mobile should consider the following developments: PC manufacturers, it is rumored, are collaborating with Google on notebook computers that will run the Android operating system. Yet Android is the “mobile” OS that powers the majority of the world’s smartphones. ...
The Real Data Center Revolution
April 11, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
By June or July of this year, according to Andy Price of Green Revolution Cooling, something strange will be announced by at least two of the companies that own the hundreds of thousands of computers that make the internet possible. In out-of-the-way locations, these companies—whose identities Price won’t reveal but, ...
Why Bitcoin 'Millionaires' Could Accidentally Become Tax Felons
April 10, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
If you’re an American who bought bitcoins at around $80 less than a month ago and sold them today for around $237, congratulations! You may be on your way to accidentally committing tax fraud. That’s because you’ll run afoul of authorities if you don’t report what you made on bitcoin ...
The Biggest Cyberattack in the History of the Internet is Happening Right Now
March 28, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
At this very moment, the largest cyber attack ever declared is emanating from a decommissioned, nuclear-war proof NATO bunker with five foot-thick concrete walls and a reputation for harboring spammers and cybercriminals. It’s all part of a dustup between CyberBunker—so named for the building just outside Kloetinge, in the Netherlands, ...
How the Internet Is Making Us Poor
March 27, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
Everyone knows the story of how robots replaced humans on the factory floor. But in the broader sweep of automation versus labor, a trend with far greater significance for the middle class—in rich countries, at any rate—has been relatively overlooked: the replacement of knowledge workers with software. One reason for ...
By the End of This Year, China Will Have as Many Android Users as the U.S. Has People
March 25, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
More than 300 million Chinese will have Android smartphones by the end of this year, according to China-focused Android app store Wandoujia. That’s a growth rate of 34% since 2012, when the country had 224 million Android users. While it’s hard to imagine that growth can continue at this pace, ...
How Making Microchips 3D Could Unleash an Age of “Cognitive Computing”
March 21, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
When it comes to the never-ending struggle to innovate in microchips, Hector Ruiz is a veteran. He was for 10 years the CEO of AMD—the David to Intel’s Goliath in the battle for marketshare of the chips that powered a generation of PCs. He’s just written a not-at-all-subtle book about ...
