The Verge

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

While Apple had been ahead in producing mouse-driven GUIs at the time, it remained focused on the combination of hardware and software. Microsoft had already created its low-cost PC DOS operating system for IBM PCs, and was firmly positioned as a software company. With Windows 1.0, Where it all began: Windows 1.0

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JUNE 25, 2013

IDC estimates the machine-to-machine represented only 11% of the total [data growth] in 2005, but will grow to 41% by 2020. billion in 2012 to about $514 billion in 2020. expected to grow from $23 billion in 2012 to about $1,279 in 2020. billion devices will be connected by 2015, and 50 billion by 2020.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 31, 2021

And, yes, I realize that this is not the first time we’ve announced the death of the company or its devices (and, for reasons I’ll explain below, it likely won’t be the last) but this is a very definite ending for legacy BlackBerry hardware. As of January 4th, any phones or tablets running BlackBerry’s own software — that’s BlackBerry 7.1

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, has previously ruled out official support for natively booting alternate operating systems like Windows or Linux. Hector Martin, a developer who regularly gets Linux running on a variety of hardware, is also porting Linux to M1 Macs.

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GeekWire

JULY 23, 2020

Revenue in Microsoft’s Surface hardware business jumped 28% to more than $1.7 — Panos Panay (@panos_panay) July 16, 2020. Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet reported this week that the new version of the operating system is now slated for release in 2021, with the Neo and other dual-screen devices pushed to 2020 as a result.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Budget : Beyond the licensing, hardware, delivery, installation, and training costs associated with the platform of choice, the team should also consider wider organizational implications, such as change management. The bottom and most fundamental layer is the hardware layer or infrastructure.

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GeekWire

MARCH 8, 2024

The startup, based north of Seattle, has raised a $750,000 seed round and is now FarmHQ , which is also the name of its irrigation hardware and software platform. The two returned home and launched their startup in 2020. FarmHQ Photo) The tech: Smaller farms have historically irrigated using labor-intensive, manually operated systems.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

“GaryOPA” Bowser was initially indicted in Seattle in August 2020 alongside Max “MAXiMiLiEN” Louarn and Yuanning Chen. Team Xecuter created modification devices and specialized hardware for use with various video game consoles, for purposes of modifying and occasionally “jailbreaking” them.

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TM Forum

JULY 19, 2021

Put simply, Open RAN is an attempt to disaggregate radio access network (RAN) functionality, by splitting up the hardware and software thus opening up the architectures and diversifying the supply chain for the radio portion of the network. The graphic below, published by TIP in October 2020, shows deployments and trials: image.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 13, 2021

Intel recently announced it is adding hardware-based ransomware detection and remediation to its new 11th gen Core vPro processors. This is possible, the company says, because of improvements to its Hardware Shield product and more powerful Threat Detection Technology (TDT). Intel's Hardware Shield and Threat Detection Technology.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Yet the company needed top hardware engineers to devote themselves to the project. Apart from possible non-compete and trade secrets issues with Microsoft, one potential complication for Panay in accepting a new Amazon role could be his role as a board member of Sonos , which he has held since August 2020.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A single day’s notice is a big departure from the company’s usual approach, where developers are given about a week’s notice to put the finishing touches on their apps ahead of the major operating system release. Christian Selig (@ChristianSelig) September 15, 2020. “A

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The Verge

MAY 17, 2021

A new tweet from the official Wear OS Twitter account is teasing an update tomorrow at I/O 2021 to Google’s frequently forgotten smartwatch operating system. Join us tomorrow for a look at what’s new on Wear OS. pic.twitter.com/ylGiIevTc4 — Wear OS by Google (@WearOSbyGoogle) May 17, 2021.

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GeekWire

MARCH 8, 2021

News of Allard being lured back into the video game industry made a splash in May 2020 , as he was brought on at Intellivision to work on the Intellivision Amico, a new game console with a retro look and feel first announced in 2018 and intended to make gaming a family friendly affair again. He is still an advisor to this day as needed.”

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GeekWire

MARCH 28, 2023

based hardware company MTI promoted Allen Auchenpaugh to CEO , from VP of global services. Breaux was previously CEO of AirNow media and co-founded Airpush, a mobile advertising technology company acquired by Appscatter in 2020. Hillsboro, Ore.-based billion campus development plan and its effort to achieve net-zero emissions.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It’s a beautiful piece of hardware, and a novel take on mobile computing. Hardware: This is a sleek, high-quality device. Some have reported issues with hardware discoloration and cracking around the USB-C port; I haven’t run into those issue on my device.). — toddbishop (@toddbishop) October 11, 2020.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

By the federal government’s Digital Analytics Program (DAP) count in October 2020, 3.2 If you have an older system but are worried that it won’t support Windows 10 — or if you simply don’t want to deal with Windows anymore — I have a suggestion: Switch to desktop Linux. Photo: Linux Mint. You can run Mint on any of your Windows 7 PCs.

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2021

While we aren’t expecting any announcements on the level of Apple’s shift to custom silicon in its computers, which was WWDC 2020’s big news, Apple presumably has some notable changes in the works for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and its other operating systems. Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. Photo by Alexander Kramer for The Verge.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

It’s taken Microsoft years to get the hardware and software right, but the company firmly believes now is the ideal time for something new. If there’s anything that Microsoft has learned from trying to harmonize Surface hardware and software , it’s that timing is everything. Folding hardware.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Fall hardware season is in full swing, and tomorrow, Google will be showing off some new products at its “ Launch Night In ” event. Having a dedicated operating system and remote are big changes for Chromecast, as previous models relied on users casting content from phones or laptops to watch on their TV. Image: Google.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

announced the Deck in July as its latest foray into both hardware and its support of gaming on the Linux operating system. The hardware is, admittedly, crowded, and you’re going to want to rework some keybindings sooner or later, but it all works better than I expected it would. Steam Deck UI screenshot).

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2020

I’m reviewing two very different computers right now: the new 2020 13-inch MacBook Pro and the new 2020 Surface Go 2. But I’m just as interested in something they share: their attempts to bring their desktop operating systems into the modern era of what I’ll call “Managed Operating Systems.”

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The Galaxy Note 7 is possibly the best gadget on this list; a herald of the success of big-screened smartphones, packed with the latest specs, top-tier camera tech for the time, and superb design and hardware… except for the fact that it had a tendency to burst into flames. butterfly keyboard, 2015-2020). Blackberry Playbook.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2021

We’ve known for a while that Apple isn’t going to make iMessage available outside of iOS devices, but this trial showed exactly how thoroughly Apple has considered expanding iMessage into other operating systems — and exactly why the company doesn’t want to.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 19, 2020

The collection seems a tad heavier than normal in the hardware and security sections, probably due to new exploits discovered in Intel’s speculative execution functionality. Servers/Hardware. This article from Carlos Fenollosa talks about his experience with a new 2020 MacBook Pro compared to his 2013-era MacBook Air.

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Cloud Musings

MAY 30, 2016

Containers – Operating system level virtualization in which the virtualization layer runs as an application within the operating system. In this approach, the operating system’s kernel runs on the hardware node with several isolated guest virtual machines installed on top of it.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

He argues they’ve entangled their operating system and app stores to the point that they’re doing developers a disservice. Apple essay from August 2020. So it’s a wild time for Microsoft to be pitching the tech industry on a new-and-improved app store, too.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Normally I talk about server hardware and such here, but with so much moving to public cloud providers, let’s expand that focus a little bit: in this post , Jeramiah Dooley provides his perspective on the Surface Duo after a month of use. Operating Systems/Applications. I guess time will tell.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

This is an older article from 2020, but still useful: Nathan Taber “demystifies” cluster networking for Amazon EKS worker nodes. Servers/Hardware I thought this write-up of Andy Bechtolsheim’s keynote at Hot Interconnects 2024 was an interesting summary of where we could see hardware development go in the next 4 years.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

Servers/Hardware. These are older posts, from August 2020, and I honestly don’t know if the vulnerability still exists (or if it has been patched). maximizing revenue per hardware instance). Operating Systems/Applications. Justin Garrison shares some thoughts on whiteboarding software (and hardware).

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This will likely be the last Technology Short Take of 2020, so it’s a tad longer than usual. Servers/Hardware. Kay Singh collects some user comments on the new M1-powered Apple hardware. Wei Lien Dang discusses the recent MITM vulnerability in Kubernetes (assigned CVE-2020-8554). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

Welcome to Technology Short Take #123, the first of 2020! Servers/Hardware. dll , a core Windows cryptographic component) that was rumored to be fixed the next day (January 14) on the first “Patch Tuesday” of 2020. Now I really want to see hardware security key support in the desktop and mobile apps!

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 15, 2021

Servers/Hardware. From early December 2020, there’s also this reminder about the security updates released by VMware to address a zero-day vulnerability in several products. Cormac Hogan shares some lessons learned using a Kubernetes Operator to query vSphere resources. Operating Systems/Applications.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

The first step in making it a mainstream kind of experience is to put it in the operating system. January 2020: Cook tells an audience in Dublin, Ireland that augmented reality “is the next big thing” and that it will “pervade our entire lives.” Apple’s AR hardware is perennially two years away.

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The Verge

JUNE 26, 2020

The first Mac with Apple silicon is coming by the end of 2020, but Apple expects the full transition process to take two years. But it also means that apps that were developed for Intel’s architecture originally won’t run natively on Apple’s upcoming hardware. Another thing to note is that the engine also won’t support everything.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Krzanich clearly believes that Intel has a bright future; he points out that projections show as many as 50 billion x86-based devices by 2020 (just 6 years away). That scale is massive, but it will be eclipsed by wearables, which by 2020 will include 50 billion devices generation 35 zettabytes of data. General Hardware IDF2014 Intel'

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The Verge

AUGUST 15, 2020

Join the fight to stop 2020 from becoming ‘1984.’”. Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) August 14, 2020. Games of the future may not need players to own powerful hardware or even to pay full price for the title itself. In retaliation, Apple is blocking Fornite from a billion devices. Few have had the gall to do that before.)

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