April 2014

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NBA commissioner Adam Silver announced the decisions taken on behalf of the league against Donald Sterling, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, following the circulation of his racist statements. Sterling has been fined $2.5 million and above all was banned for life from the NBA. This means he can’t participate in any way in the Clippers activities and Adam Silver asked the owners of the other NBA teams to start a motion to force Sterling to sell the franchise.

Rajeev Suri (Photo courtesy Nokia. All rights reserved)

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Rajeev Suri has been named president and CEO of Nokia, a position he’ll hold from May 1, 2014. Suri will have the task of revitalizing the company after the sale of Nokia’s Devices & Services, the mobile devices division, to Microsoft in September 2013. His predecessor Stephen Elop went back to Microsoft, with which he had worked previously. Risto Siilasmaa, who at that point was appointed Nokia’s interim CEO, has become chairman of the company’s board of directors.

The Last Colony by John Scalzi

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The novel “The Last Colony” by John Scalzi was published for the first time in 2008. It’s part of the “Old Man’s War” series.

John Perry and Jane Sagan live on the colony of Huckleberry together with their adopted daughter Zoë. Their lives seem quiet after the years spent fighting in the Colonial Defense Forces (CDF). The situation changes when they are offered to lead a new colony on the planet Roanoke, an important project for the Colonial Union.

John and Jane accept and the two of them are sent to the planet to colonize along with Zoë and the two Obin who always accompany her as her protectors. However, the aliens seem to have information on the new colony that cast a shadow on the project. The situation becomes more complicated when the starship reaches its destination and its captain realizes that that’s not the right planet despite the fact that the course was correct.

The FCC chairman Tom Wheeler

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In January 2014, net neutrality was rejected by the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which ruled that the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) hasn’t the authority to prohibit Internet service providers to block or even slow down web traffic and applications in a selective manner. Now the FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler stated that new rules will be proposed that, however, could disrupt the Internet with higher costs for users.