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Director of Investment for Datacom, Mark McWilliams - Talking Technology 2012 - Ep17
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:47:14
Publish Date: 2012-05-27 19:56:06
Description: Interview with Mark McWilliams, Director of Investment for Datacom in Australia. Leon and Garry discuss issue including: The disastrous Facebook IPO Apple CEO Tim Cook topping the list of highest paid CEOs in the United States, beating second place Oracle boss Larry Ellison by over $US300 million. Dell’s sales falling 12 per cent Figures from Gartner showing that mobile phone sales have slipped but smart phone sales are up nearly 45 per cent Bloomberg reporting that Apple has placed orders for the new iPhone5 from suppliers in Asia for screens that are bigger than the 3.5- inch size now on the smartphone Samsung receiving 9 million pre-orders from more than 100 international carriers for its upcoming flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S3 Jack Ma’s Alibaba Group and Yahoo! announcing a deal under which the Chinese e-commerce company would buy back a roughly 20 per cent stake in itself from the struggling U.S. web portal for about $7.1 billion. Apple planning to expand its manufacturing facilities in China and its contract manufacturer, Foxconn announcing plans to invest $ 210 million to build an Apple production line. For the first week in history, Google Chrome becoming the most-used browser in the world, according to StatCounter. Google updating its Chrome browser, adding the ability to sync browser tabs across multiple devices to make a single session of Chrome accessible as you move from desktop, to mobile, and back again. It’s been a big week for phishing and scams targeting Norton Antivirus and Facebook. China's ministry of commerce has given the go-ahead for Google's $US12.5 billion merger with Motorola Mobility. The European Union's antitrust axe is about to fall on Google but the company can still avoid the worst repercussions HP slashing between 10 and 15 percent of its workforce as part of a global cost-cutting campaign instigated by CEO Meg Whitman following her appointment as HP boss last year. Sydney business parks getting excluded from the federal government's initial three-year broadband rollout. The world's largest free music streaming service, Spotify, getting launched in Australia. Sony Network Entertainment International announcing the Music Unlimited service application (app) for iPhone and iPod touch. Accuracy is generally an important consideration in computer chips, but a team of researchers led by Rice University are touting a new "inexact" chip (dubbed PCMOS) that they say could lead to as much as a fifteen-fold increase in efficiency. A paralysed 58 year-old woman now able to get herself a drink of coffee via a robotic arm, controlled by her thoughts. A new Kickstarter project is creating an app-guitar to help users learn how to play by leveraging the iPhone. The gTar features an iPhone dock at the base, and once the phone is plugged in, the app will will control the array of LEDs along the fretboard showing you where to place your fingers. The humble door lock key, which has been around in one form or another for literally thousands of years, may be getting replaced by an app.
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