Microsoft strikes deal with ValueAct Capital

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/08/31/microsoft-strikes-agreement-with-valueact-capital/2750621/

Startup wants you to fund Hyperloop, and help design it too - CNET Mobile

http://m.cnet.com/news/startup-wants-you-to-fund-hyperloop-and-help-design-it-too/57600528

BBC News - Instagram, Vine and Netflix hit by Amazon glitch

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23839901

BBC News - Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23815563

BBC News - Facebook's Internet.org aims to get billions online

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23779172

Tag, you're out: Microsoft to nix its bar code variant

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57599118-75/tag-youre-out-microsoft-to-nix-its-bar-code-variant/

Firefox OS faces brutal road ahead - CNET Mobile

http://m.cnet.com/news/firefox-os-faces-brutal-road-ahead/57598979

ICANN has decided to ban the use of dotless domains | ZDNet

http://www.zdnet.com/icann-has-decided-to-ban-the-use-of-dotless-domains-7000019514/

Collective IQ

http://www.dougengelbart.org/about/collective-iq.html

Doug Engelbart is amazing and well worth studying his work.

Writing Hello World Bootloader Tutorial

http://viralpatel.net/taj/tutorial/hello_world_bootloader.php

Apparently part of a:

TAJ OS may be an answer. It is a first operating system developed in India which is totally based on object oriented concept. C++ is the first thing that comes to mind when we hear the word object oriented. And yes, TAJ OS is totally developed in C++, which removes all drawbacks of C language. (sic)

Features of TAJ Operating System

• 32-bit Protected mode Operating System
• Paging enable
• Secure Exception handling
• Interrupt management system
• Work with different kinds of CPU (80386 onwards).
• Fully functional built in keyboard driver
• Total DMA control
• Floppy driver
• Mouse driver
• Fat file system driver
• Multitasking
• Multithreading
• Multiuser

Uh, oh: NSA ‘whistleblower’ Snowden’s e-mail provider is down — and left this ominous note | VentureBeat

http://venturebeat.com/2013/08/08/lavabit-shuts-down/

Part of the story of open source hardware - users abandon older solutions

http://m.seekingalpha.com/currents/post/892521

IBM hopes Google et al. can breathe life into its Power chip franchise — Tech News and Analysis

http://gigaom.com/2013/08/06/ibm-hopes-google-et-al-can-breathe-life-into-its-power-chip-franchise/

Crossbar unveils RRAM - a higher capacity RAM

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/crossbar-unveils-rram-2013-08/

Electronics Weekly News | Business | Crossbar unveils RRAM

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/crossbar-unveils-rram-2013-08/

Xerox copier flaw changes numbers in photocopied docs • The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/06/xerox_copier_flaw_means_dodgy_numbers_and_dangerous_designs/

Project HiJack

Project HiJack

Hijacking power and bandwidth from the mobile phone's audio interface. 
Creating a cubic-inch peripheral sensor ecosystem for the mobile phone.

http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~prabal/projects/hijack/

Hendy’s Law (pixels per dollar)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law#Other_formulations_and_similar_laws

Pixels per dollar. Similarly, Barry Hendy of Kodak Australia has plotted the "pixels per dollar" as a basic measure of value for a digital camera, demonstrating the historical linearity (on a log scale) of this market and the opportunity to predict the future trend of digital camera price, LCD and LED screens and resolution.

Feds are Suspects in New Malware That Attacks Tor Anonymity | Threat Level | Wired.com

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/freedom-hosting/

Stop Android 4.3 from always scanning for Wi-Fi networks - CNET Mobile

http://m.cnet.com/news/stop-android-43-from-always-scanning-for-wi-fi-networks/57596807

Sajak's law of technology marketing

http://outsideinmarketing.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/sajaks-law-of-technology-marketing/

 Sajak's Law states that the time it takes technology vendors to embrace new buzzwords in their marketing literature is cut in half every year. 

Following the introduction of a new concept such as SOA by industry thought leaders, there is a mad rush by technology vendors to adopt the new terminology into their messaging and positioning.  In an effort to be viewed as the leader in the latest trend, vendors begin bombarding their customers with aggressive promotions around the latest buzzword terms.  The process happens so quickly that few customers actually have time to filter the noise to determine the true meaning of new terms.  After a few months, the terms cease to have any value, because every vendor claims to have adopted the principles.