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[Wednesday] Amazon opens doors to search engine, Intel's new mobile Centrino chip Napa announced, IBM charges for access to their patents, Christmas Fact#11
While Google limits you to non-commercial use and only 1,000 queries per day, Yahoo has complicated licensing agreements, Amazon has taken the bold step and opened up its doors to developers charging its infastructure in a similar way that Sun charges for its grid usage, $1 per CPU hour. You will be able to mine the 100TB of data that has amased over at Alexa and do with it as you will. Always suspected Amazon was going to get into Web Services big time and this is definitely a big step. A quote that I thought was apt; "search engines to become a platform instead of a destination".
The IBM Ventures Group announced last night a new program to let VC funded startups access to over 40,000 of their patents in return for a $25,000 startup fee and 1% of turnover then in after. The move is meant to lower the costs to the startup while giving them access to IBM's large inventory of patents for potential incorporation and productising. LinuxInsider reports that not everyone is happy about this, citing Florian Mueller as a stounch critic of the scheme highlighting the abuse of the patent system.
Intel has announced its new generation processor for the mobile market codenamed Napa. This will replace the Centrino chip and will run at 25% less power, meaning longer battery life, and will incorporate their dual core processor Yonah allowing true parallelism. According to Reuters the mobile market is growing faster than the rest of the computer market as a whole. While this is the third announcement that is touting power consumption as a major plus, when it comes to the mobile space its a lot more evident.
Countdown to Christmas Fact#11:
The Immaculate Conception has nothing to do with either the birth of Jesus or any virgin birth. It is a specific dogma of Roman Catholicism which decrees that the Virgin Mary was preserved free from original sin by divine grace from the moment of her conception.
Courtesy of http://www.cvc.org/christmas/myths.htm
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