After collectively bidding on Nortel’s 6000 wireless patents, Apple, RIM, Microsoft, Sony, Ericsson and EMC have been cleared by US courts and allowed to buy them for $US4.5 billion. [Reuters]
After furious bidding that saw Google and Intel’s hopes crushed–Apple, RIM, Microsoft, Sony, EMC and Ericsson scooped up Nortel’s patents for $US4.5 billion. The 6,000 patents span wireless, data networking, 4G and internet, and while we don’t know what they all plan to do with them, it’s notable that Google got excluded. [Reuters]
How does one steal nearly $US1 million worth of electronics and hardware from storage giant EMC? Easy: Just use a small bag and lots of patience. Unfortunately for him, not getting caught while doing this proved a bit more difficult. More »
I don’t ask much of portable hard drives: they should be affordable, easy on the eyes, and better not require an external power source. So I kinda like Iomega’s pretty, cheap(ish), USB-powered eGo drives.
EMC bought Iomega so that it could start easing its business-grade storage gear into homes and small offices, and the StorCenter ix2 is the first official combo of Iomega brand and EMC juice. Before I get into its LifeLine Linux environment, I wanted to point out that this thing is priced to move: A full two-disk 1TB NAS costs $US300—and you can double it to 2TB for $US480. I know HDD prices are dropping but that’s a pretty good deal to me. Here’s what you get with the storage: galleryPost('iomegaix2', 3, '');
We’re really not sure why people spend time developing these kinds of stats, but we’re happy to exploit them when they do.
EMC and IDC have put out a joint study revealing that there are more bits of data in the digital universe than there are stars in the actual universe. And according to the study, the number of bits is growing at a rate of about 60% per year.
