Googorola or Moogle

Google's recent buy out of Motorola mobility has thrown up interesting questions than answering them. Has Google for the first time gone to backfoot by apple that it had to join the smartphone wars led by the handset makers. The company which was an eye to eye with the Chinese government, today is on a reverse gear due to patent infringements claims.

Why did Google shell out such a huge amount for its non-core business? A question left many people bewildered. A probable answer to this is firstly, Google's Android mobile OS is under attack through patent infringement claims by Apple. Apple has already got injunction into Samsung Galaxy tab (in Australia and Germany), running Android Honeycomb and Galaxy phones in Netherlands. Motorola has also been sued by apple in US over different patent infringements cases. The matter became worse when Google lost out to Apple+Microsoft consortium in bidding for the Nortel Patents. So how will Motorola purchase help them? Motorola has a chest of 17,000 patents to its name and another 6500 pending. This gives Google a war-chest of ammunitions in this crazy war for patent.

Other side effects, Nokia and RIM are being pursuit-ed because of their rich patent portfolios, and with HP putting the down for WebOS, is Samsung sniffing WebOS?
Sadly, the patents which were to protect innovation, is now seeming to stifle innovation. at least in the case of mobile smartphone domain.

My work is done. Why wait?

What was common between, George Eastman, Alan Turing and Ludwig Boltzman. Apart from being a true genius and scientist, they all had one thing in common. they all committed suicide. Today their absence is not only missed but the way they died, brings us to a more compelling question, Is the society not able to value a genius or they are far ahead of their own times.

Today the world is about to reach at the point of singularity, the softwares are taking over in most of the aspects. And Alan Michael Turing can be said to the father of the modern computer science. The question 'whether a problem can be solved by the computer in a realistic time frame' was answered by him. Imagine any finite problem(whose solution exists) needs to be solved in a finite time, the solvability of this problem by any machine is determined by Turing's construct a.k.a. the Turing Machine. Any problem that a can be solved by a Turing machine in some time is solvable by any modern day computer, otherwise it will take an undeterministic time to solve that. With this landmark theorem (which still defines the limit of computer science), Turing was also hailed as the savior of UK in the second world war for his code breaking capabilities. But Turing's later life was not that happy. In his personal life (he was a gay), was not accepted to the society. The government asked him to take special hormones, which depressed him and finally in 1952 he committed suicide by eating an apple laced with cyanide. Allegedly, apple computer's loge is a tribute to Alan Turing (which the company refutes).

Till 15 years ago, photographic film rolls was a mandatory thing for a tourist to carry. The inventor of that product was none other than George Eastman (erstwhile founder of the company Kodak). Eastman was self educated, made the photographic film, perfected it for Kodak cameras. A philanthropist by nature, he donated in his lifetime almost 100 million dollars towards universities under the name of "Mr. Smith". In his later years, he was living with pain because of his health issues. On march 1932, he shot himself with a gunshot in his chest, leaving a note "My work is done. Why wait?"

Mobile OS wars

A recent news about the collaboration between microsoft/nokia made the headlines the MWC 2011

What is the OS war all about?

Frankly speaking the mobile wars are shifting to an OS wars, were there are a plethora of players. Google with its Android, Apple with its IOS, Nokia with Symbian, Microsoft with Windows phone, HP with Web OSand RIm with blackberry os are the key players. Now, Like apple, RIM and nokia the hardware and the software producers, Google and Windows only provide the software. The various other Hardware manbufactures either use one ofthese software available. The OS market has been lucrative and as well as the app market associated with each OS. This is one of hte few domain in the IT industry which is not dominated by a couple of big players, but is a competetive field.

What is there in for Customers?

Good competetion leads to better products, OS will continue to improve
Windows Ph will be better with a nokia push
better Os will lead to better applications
Nokia will have a better go at apple with only hardware focus

Who are the clear loosers?

All the symbian fans, which was simply The OS for more than a decade.
Intel - thought of enterig the mobile market late through meego. Now most of the mobile chips are made my ARM or the Qualcomm.

As a symbian fan, I m disappointed, but hope for a better OS in the future.

The Name

The Name of the Blog, Remove-the-gap, is inspired from the London tubes, where they keep on announcing 'Mind the Gap between the platform and the train'. The gap exist everywhere in the society, work, money and everything. I will try to bridge it in the technology sector. Will be posting new technology related news, updates for a simple man.... removing the gap.....