Yesterday was a calling-all-lawyers day for the volatile segment of the microchip industry that makes memory devices for personal computers and other electronic products.
Microsoft, Google and others are asking permission to use white spaces — free of charge — for millions of unregulated and unlicensed devices for personal networking systems that they would like to sell, including P.D.A.'s, wireless broadband devices and even toys.
"On the other hand, the ubiquity of those devices has made them generally affordable, so one could counter that employees who need cellphones or similar devices for personal matters can purchase and pay for their own".
Shares of Micron Technology Inc., which makes memory devices for personal computers and other electronic products, dropped 75 cents, to $19 yesterday, or nearly 4percentt, after it said it would record a loss for the third quarter.
In the case that just went through the courts, the individual had been told not to use his devices for personal messages and lost his job when he did.
The F.A.A. has proposed a rule to prohibit pilots from using electronic devices for personal use when they are on duty in the cockpit while the aircraft is being operated.
They note that a new wave of investment, driven by new applications like image-capture systems for cell phones and Web cameras and other imaging devices for personal computer, has led to an explosion of CMOS development among big chip makers like ST Microsystems, Motorola and Agilent, the new Hewlett-Packard spinoff, as well as smaller start-ups like Photobit, Conexant and Y-Media.
Storage was recently the subject of a number of back-and-forth reports regarding the Surface, with some claiming Microsoft left little room on-device for personal files once you accounted for the Windows 8 OS install.
Ah, wonderful — skulls of dead animals used as interface devices for personal computers.
Regarding ICT related attributes and additional equipment, bicycle sensors to prevent road accidents with other vehicles and devices for personal security were considered as the most important attributes by respectively 23% and 21.4% of the respondents (if we consider the top three attributes these two features have a weight of 40.7% and 38.8% respectively).
