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Google acquires Motorola Mobility

Massimo Luciani August 16, 2011 2

Yesterday Google announced the acquisition of Motorola Mobility for $40 a share which gives a total of $12.5 billion which represents a premium of 63% over the closing price on August 12. The deal includes Motorola Mobility’s 17,000 patents.

30 years ago IBM announced its first personal computer

Massimo Luciani August 12, 2011 1

On August 12, 1981 IBM announced the release of its Personal Computer, identified as model 5150. This expression, as well as microcomputers and home computers, had already been used before so you could say that actually the first personal computer was the Xerox Alto in 1973 or even the Olivetti Programma 101 about a decade earlier. The success of the IBM PC however was such that within a short time the expression personal computers started identifying a model compatible with the IBM one.

The Mars Rover Opportunity at the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility in 2003 (photo NASA/JPL/KSC)

The Mars Rover Opportunity reached Endeavour Crater, possibly its final destination

Massimo Luciani August 10, 2011 3

The Mars Rover Opportunity reached Endeavour crater, where NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter revealed the presence of clay minerals and ancient geological deposits. In the area there are a lot of analysis to do and considering the wear of Opportunity this could be its final destination.

The asteroid Vesta (photo NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA)

The best photos of the asteroid Vesta ever taken by the space probe Dawn

Massimo Luciani August 2, 2011 0

A few days after the arrival of the Dawn spacecraft in the vicinity of the asteroid Vesta, NASA released the most detailed images ever taken of this celestial body. The study of Vesta will go on for an year then Dawn will leave for dwarf planet Ceres.

Google buys more than 1,000 patents from IBM

Massimo Luciani August 1, 2011 2

Google confirmed that it bought over a thousand patents from IBM but details were not revealed. Some sources report that the patents bought are 1,029, according to other sources they’re 1,030, either way the amount paid by Google wasn’t disclosed. The important fact is that the acquired patents cover technologies related to hardware and in particular the production of microprocessors and memories but also Internet-related technologies.