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Thursday, 29-August-2013 00:29:46 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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New Zealand have essentially banned software patents. “By clarifying the definition of what can be patented, we are giving New Zealand businesses more flexibility to adapt and improve existing inventions, while continuing to protect genuine innovations,” Foss said. The nearly unanimous passage of the Bill was also greeted by Institute of IT Professionals (IITP) chief executive Paul Matthews, who congratulated Foss for listening to the IT industry and ensuring software patents were excluded.
Closer to home, Melbourne IT have suffered an attack which led to outages for their customer websites - including the New York Times and Twitter's image service. A spokesman for the Melbourne-based company said on Wednesday morning that the login credentials of a US-based reseller, which on-sells website domain names from Melbourne IT, had been compromised, and the reseller’s account was used to access and change the key details of up to nine domain names. More here.
Yahoo have an article about 6 possible replacements for Ballmer as Microsoft's CEO. After Ballmer's surprise announcement on Friday that he would retire within a year, the board's lead independent director John Thompson, who heads the search for the new CEO, said the planned transformation of the software giant into a fast-moving 'devices and services' company is still on track. But insiders would face scepticism from those who want a clean break from Ballmer's personal legacy, as well as other obstacles. The following is a list of potential internal candidates, with pros and cons, based on conversations with analysts and insiders.
Nissan have announced they will be selling self-driving cars by 2020. Nissan, the sixth-largest automaker in the United States, announced Tuesday it will sell a self-driven car by 2020. The company outlined its plans before a gathering of reporters from around the world meeting at a Nissan press event in Irvine, Calif.
MIT have developed a 110-core CPU. The processor, called the Execution Migraine Machine, tries to determine ways to reduce traffic inside chips, which enables faster and more power-efficient computing, said Mieszko Lis, a postgraduate student and Ph.D. candidate at MIT, during a presentation at the Hot Chips conference in California.
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