Cybervista

The IEEE is forming a group to revise the IEEE 1625 standard for lithium-ion laptop batteries and guess which two companies will chair it … wait for it … Sony and Dell. These two companies have extensive experience in exploding batteries which makes them eminently qualified to chair the group.

Exploding batteries incidents have caused a massive recall of lithium-ion laptop batteries this year. Most of the batteries have been manufactured by Sony and sold to major laptop makers like Dell.

This just goes to show what money can do, didnt know that even IEEE could do something as stupid as this.

BitTorrent today announced it has acquired µTorrent, a lightweight and efficient implementation of the BitTorrent protocol. The objective is to combine BitTorrent’s expertise in networking protocols with µTorrent’s high-performance design and compelling user interface (UI).
Following the acquisition, patented content delivery innovations made by BitTorrent will be integrated in the µTorrent client in a “seamless” manner.
The acquisition will also accelerate BitTorrent’s plans to provide high-performance content delivery services to websites seeking an efficient platform for distributing large, high-quality files and strengthen the adoption of BitTorrent technology in embedded systems.

Well there goes another torrent client down the drain (it would have been better if they would have just stopped the development like TorrentStorm did years back)