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In this Issue Weird and wonderful high-tech inventions of the world AT&T to buy Verizon spectrum for $1.9 billion Samsung Galaxy S 4 buzz still white-hot, but could that mean we're ignoring the HTC M7? UpperCup: A coffee-drinking iPhone owner's pipe dream GoDaddy jumps out to early lead in Super Bowl XLVII ad game Ex-Cisco engineers tackle Layer 4-7 SDNs Who's making money in the cloud? Intel rolls 'Yolo' smartphone into untapped foreign markets Senators seek H-1B cap that starts at 115,000 and rises Steve Jobs movie clip is not accurate at all, says Woz High Efficiency Video Coding will help bring 4K video to Internet TV BlackBerry 10 a "make or break" for RIM, says analyst Weird and wonderful high-tech inventions of the world From robotic waiters and high-tech bicycles to "privacy visors," we take a look at recent inventions that are strange but beautiful Read More AT&T to buy Verizon spectrum for $1.9 billion AT&T will buy mobile spectrum in the 700MHz band from Verizon Communications for US$1.9 billion, AT&T said Friday. Read More Samsung Galaxy S 4 buzz still white-hot, but could that mean we're ignoring the HTC M7? Events have unfolded and rumors have broken -- entirely coincidentally, I'm sure -- in a way such that the upcoming Galaxy S 4 from Samsung has never been far from the front pages. The device is unquestionably the most anticipated Android phone ever, and the appearance this week of apparent photographs pulled from Picasa accomplished the task of keeping the Galaxy S 4 squarely in the forefront of the Android world's attention span. Read More UpperCup: A coffee-drinking iPhone owner's pipe dream Cup holders can come in handy. Same for iPhone cases, if you own an iPhone. So, it only makes sense that someone would design a combination cup holder and iPhone case for use while texting. Of course, it makes absolutely no sense at all that anyone would actually build or buy such a contraption, so what we have here is almost certainly a publicity stunt of some kind. You can see why at a glance. Read... Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Deriving value from SOA with data grids This white paper demonstrates that a data grid infrastructure, built with clustered cahing, can help you avoid "weak link" vulnerabilities that can sabotage SOA strategies. Learn More GoDaddy jumps out to early lead in Super Bowl XLVII ad game GoDaddy, the sometimes controversial Web domain registrar and web hosting company, has taken an early lead in the Super Bowl XLVII commercial race, floating its first ad onto the web. In a twist, the ad is far less racy than GoDaddy's usual fare, actually focusing this time on what the company's business is. The characters in the ad are all coming up with the same idea, figuring no one else in the... Read More Ex-Cisco engineers tackle Layer 4-7 SDNs Another SDN startup with a Cisco pedigree has emerged. Anuta Networks, a provider of network services virtualization, came out of stealth mode this week and unveiled its plan for delivering "on-demand, anytime, anywhere" network services for cloud. Read More Who's making money in the cloud? Who's really making money in the cloud computing market? Read More Intel rolls 'Yolo' smartphone into untapped foreign markets Intel, in partnership with integrated communications provider Safaricom, announced a new entry-level smartphone designed for developing markets this week, dubbing the device the "Yolo." Read More WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel Easing the Online Overload Many transaction processing systems have reached their capacity limits, so the time is right to consider the potential for running tier 1 mission-critical workloads on opens standards. This white paper highlights the key components of a properly structured and highly optmized SQL Server OLTP reference architecture. Read Now! Senators seek H-1B cap that starts at 115,000 and rises A bipartisan group of Senators is planning to introduce a bill that not only hikes the H-1B cap, but allows it to rise automatically with demand to a maximum of 300,000 visas annually. Read More Steve Jobs movie clip is not accurate at all, says Woz Yesterday saw the first clip from the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic starring Ashton Kutcher as Jobs and Josh Gad as Steve Wozniak. The full film will be premiering at the Sundance Film Festival later today and is set for a wider theatrical release in April. But onto the clip, where we see an impassioned Jobs - played rather skillfully by Kutcher - having a discussion with Woz. I have to admit, I was pleasantly... Read More High Efficiency Video Coding will help bring 4K video to Internet TV 4K TV sounds great, but it has this one big problem: 4K video content is honking huge. An answer may be at hand. The ITU has just given first-stage approval to a new, much more efficient video codec: High Efficiency Video Coding' (HEVC). Read More BlackBerry 10 a "make or break" for RIM, says analyst Research in Motion's BlackBerry 10 launches in New York January 30 and we caught up with IDC and Forrester analysts to get their take on the OS and whether it will be the savior that the company needs. Follow reporter Nick Barber on Twitter @nickjb Read More
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