Hardware
LG acquires webOS from Hewlett-Packard
LG has reached an agreement with Hewlett-Packard for the acquisition of the webOS operating system for an amount of money that hasn’t been disclosed. LG will use webOS in its new line of Smart TVs and will assume stewardship of the projects Open webOS and Enyo, the cross-platform JavaScript framework used to write applications that work on different mobile devices and browsers.
A new life for the Ember supercomputer
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) gifted the Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign the supercomputer Ember. Originally funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), it will now be used to work in genomics and transcriptomics. It will be handled by the High-Performance Biological Computing (HPCBio) group, which runs the infrastructure for bioinformatics.
Google opens the pre-orders for its augmented reality glasses Google Glass
In April 2012, Google introduced Google Glass, augmented reality glasses. Now the time arrived to open the pre-orders for the first commercial version called Explorer Edition, at the cost already planned of $1,500. For common users it will take a long time before they can buy them, howver there’s the possibility to become an Explorer, meaning being part of a group of “pioneers” who will participate in the Google Glass launch events in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Dell will be a private company again thanks to a $24.4 billions deal
There had been already rumors for several weeks and yesterday the news became official: Michael Dell (photo ©mikeandryan), founder and CEO of Dell Inc., buys his company back along with equity firm Silver Lake and the participation of Microsoft with $2 billion. The acquisition amounts to a total of $24.4 billions.
