9th February 2013 Archive

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• Eric Schmidt to unload 42% of his Google stake

  Shares worth approximately $2.5 – c'mon, say it with us – BEEELLION

  Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has announced plans to sell off nearly half of his stake in the online ad giant over the next 12 months. According to an SEC filing on Friday, Schmidt – who served as Google's CEO from 2001 to 2011 – currently owns around 7.6 million Class A and Class B shares in the company, representing …

  Financial News 9 Feb 00:36

• Curiosity photographs mysterious metal object on Martian rock

  Shiny 'flower' sets Mars-watchers aflutter

  Image analysis of shots taken by the Curiosity rover's MastCam last month appears to have revealed a shiny metal object sticking out of a rock on the Martian surface. Italian imaging specialist Elisabetta Bonora was going over Curiosity's latest photographs and found the object in a set of pictures taken by the rover on …

  Science 9 Feb 01:23

• Big Windows updates may ship this summer – and every summer

  Microsoft's 'Blue' could do away with major releases

  Rumors that a major feature update for Windows 8 will arrive this summer have been flying around for months. But if the latest buzz is to be believed, what Microsoft is actually cooking up could be something much bigger than your typical Service Pack. According to an anonymous source who has been whispering in Redmond-watcher …

  Operating Systems 9 Feb 02:11

• Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth

  Feature Bob Metcalfe: How Token Ring and 'IBM's arrogance' nearly sank Big Blue

  When Bob Metcalfe, the prime mover behind the invention of Ethernet, recently visited the site of that invention, Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), The Reg had the opportunity to sit down with him to discuss the history of Ethernet, its advantages over Token Ring, and IBM's perfidy. Metcalfe was in town to promote a …

  Data Networking 9 Feb 02:25

• Microsoft needs to keep visible under waves of Blue

  Analysis New codename, new everything, and not just Windows....

  Remember Microsoft's Blackcomb? Nor do I: it never happened. For years, Blackcomb was the code name for a “next” version of Windows after Longhorn. Longhorn became Windows Vista and when that lumbered out the working title for Windows 7 became Vienna. Now we have a new codename: Blue. Only Blue isn’t a new version of Windows …

  Operating Systems 9 Feb 10:40