Remains of the Day: how many wrongs make a right?

Logically speaking, if two wrongs don't make a right, then it should take at least three. Fortunately, we had at least that many: a supposed Nokia shareholders revolt? Bzzt. Apple and a game company with tiff?. And don't get me started on a Dell marketing stunt--who ever thought it would go right? If it is wrong is right, then the remains for Wednesday, February 16, 2011 do not want to be, uh, right.

Nokia plan b was only a joke all together(Engadget)

You may have heard something in the last couple days "Nokia plan B," an alleged by some shareholders the creator of Finland-based mobile phones that sought to wrest control from CEO Stephen Elop on the heels of the company's deal with Microsoft. As it turns out, the story, who also made the Wall Street Journal, was a false completed and absolute--the nine investors were indeed "a very bored engineer who really loves his iPhone." Hey, has anyone seen that industrial-strength of Doh!?

Capcom says Apple won't ever rebuked them above Smurfberry Cash(MacLife)

Village of Smurfs Capcom came under fire earlier this month for its undocumented feature of "leaving children parents wasting money on virtual goods". But after whispers that Capcom and Apple were sparring over the app, the game went on record saying that these reports were blatantly false and that, in fact, Apple has just decided to buy a tanker, smurfberries for 2 million dollars.

Accelerating Windows phone ecosystem(Windows phone Blog)

Speaking of undocumented features, Microsoft Brian Seitz took out time to respond to a comment on the blog of the company's Windows phone about why Windows Phone 7 Resets its software camera default settings on the launch: this is a feature, not a bug! But don't worry, Microsoft of trying it: "feedback from people like you has the team seriously looking to see if there is an optimal option." I'm thinking that perhaps Seitz had hoped that by reading this sentence could cause heads to explode, that I think it is a way to solve the problem.

AT&T CEO: Apps should work on many devices(USA Today)

He's back! After Tuesday's comments that the iPhone Verizon would AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson has returned to explain that the phone users must be able to buy an app once and use it on any platform. I'll give you one guess as to who should sell those apps. The name of the plan of Stephenson, if you are curious, "Hey, that around 30 percent Gig sounds pretty good, actually."

Two arrested in Dell marketing stunt(KXAN)

How do you know that your marketing prowess is a success? When the cops show and stop people. This happened to Dell Round Rock, Texas campus when a black-clad biker with a skull mask parade around the building carrying metal objects and tell people to "go to the lobby". Turns out it was an attempt to show the company's streak tablet, which apparently can be interfaced with Harley-Davidson. Then, I think we have shown that not even the threat of deadly danger can get anyone interested in Tablet PC from Dell.

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Results of amplified by Enterprise sales

Dell Tuesday reported an increase of more than a year of 177% in net income for the fourth quarter of 2011, driven by growth in enterprise server and PC sales.

The company's profit was 927 million in the quarter that ended on 28 January, increasing by $ 334 million in the fourth quarter of last year.

The company posted quarterly revenues 15,69 billion, which increased by 5 percent year over year. Analysts expected 15.71 billion dollars in revenue for the fourth quarter.

Revenues by business Large Enterprise Dell was 4.7 billion, an increase of 12 percent a year ago, driven by a strong demand for PC and server products. Revenue for the Division of small and medium-sized businesses grew year from 12 percent to $ 3.7 billion.

In general server and networking revenue for the company was 2.09 billion, an increase of 16%. Revenue of the company's mobility and desktop--laptop that matters--both sales grew by 4 per cent.

However, the Consumer Division Of revenue was $ 3.3 billion, falling 8 percent from the fourth quarter of last year, which has received a major boost with the launch of the Microsoft operating system Windows 7. The operating system has been credited with boosting sales of PCs.

Obama seeks big boost in cybersecurity spending

WASHINGTON--the White House is proposing a big increase cybersecurity research and development in next year's budget to improve, in part, its ability to reduce the threat of insider and ensure the security of control systems, such as those used in power plants.

In detail their proposal budget 2012 Monday, White House officials didn't mention WikiLeaks and releases of tens of thousands of documents military and diplomatic cables, or the ability of the worm Stuxnet of damage control Iran's nuclear. But the fingerprints of both these accidents on this budget proposal seemed clear enough.

Philip Coyle, associate director for national security, said the budget briefing Monday that the Administration is proposing "significant growth" in search of cybersecurity. When you add all the spending plans of cybersecurity across the Board, cybersecurity research and development spending will rise 35% 548 million next year, he said.

Stuxnet shows how a cyberattack could damage a system for monitoring critical outreach--in this case, Iran's centrifuges. But attacks on critical facilities in the United States has been a long-standing concern.

The Deptartment of Homeland Security last year teams formed to test Central weaknesses of cybersecurity.

Cybersecurity initiatives that are funded in this spending plan include new research programmes at the National Science Foundation (NSF), as well as research on a system of trusted identities. Daily cybersecurity spending, Federal agencies is not part of this research budget.

Research expenditure of cybersecurity is part of a research and development of the overall budget proposal for next year that includes increases across the Board for a wide range of research activity, including Robotics, climate change and the funding to expand the supply and the ability of teachers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Overall, the budget seeks 66.1 billion for basic research and applied in all areas, an increase of 11.6%. "That aims to develop solutions-innovative solutions for the many challenges we face," John Holdren, Science Advisor to top of Obama, said the budget briefing.

Peter Harsha, Director of Government Affairs at the Computing Research Association, wrote in a blog post that the White House's proposal "is essentially" dead on arrival ' regarding the home is concerned ".

But it's still important to have a good request of the President and agencies on records when we go to science agencies, "he wrote. CRA members include many universities as Stanford, Carnegie Mellon University and Harvard University, as well as Microsoft, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and many other companies.

President Barack Obama has made the science and research of a high priority of funding and has repeatedly stated that the United States faces a new "Sputnik moment."

But the White House's budget faces Republican lawmakers in the House who have already brought over $ 2 billion in cuts to science budget this year.

Holdren said the budget briefing if they occur proposed cuts of Republican, "they would cripple our ability to innovate, to advance" at the budget briefing.

The White House proposed research will provide, among other things, 7.8 billion for the National Science Foundation, 13% that was approved this year. Office of Science, Department of energy would see 5.4 billion, an increase of 10.7%.

The federal budget proposal aims specifically to research new advanced manufacturing technologies, including manufacturing and nano-robotics.

The White House believes Robotics is "almost a tipping point in terms of usefulness and versatility" and launched a grant proposal to seek proposals last autumn robotic.

The Government is trying to develop "co-robots," "systems that can peacefully co-exist near or in physical contact with humans in the pursuit of worldly activities, dangerous, precise or expensive," according to the announcement of the grant.

Aneesh Chopra, the Government of the United States, CTO, Computerworld said that a number of agencies interested in robotics could play role in production and productivity that can bring.

"We are convinced that there is the possibility to take a new look and a more challenging Robotics", said Chopra. "We want to run the spectrum on Robotics--that which can offer innovations on current technologies which are applied in new and novel ways, as well as future capabilities that blocks are just yet unborn."

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