May 13, 2008
What EDS is telling its people about HP deal
Network World
Paul McNamara recaps what Ron Rittenmeyer, EDS’ CEO is telling his employees about the HP deal.
“Ron Rittenmeyer is telling the troops in an e-mail distributed this morning and passed along to Network World: Today is a historic day for the future of all of us at EDS, our valued clients, our shareholders and the entire IT industry. EDS and HP have reached a definitive agreement for HP to purchase EDS. When the transaction is completed, which is expected in the second half of the year, HP will establish a new business group and brand it EDS – an HP company.”
Driving distractions are, indeed distracting
Techdirt
Mike Masnick sounds off on some of things that are distracting drivers on the road and what legislation should be doing about them.
“Despite some attempts to ban distractions one by one, it’s never going to be possible to ban all driver distractions. You can’t make it illegal to talk to someone else in your car or even to change the radio station while driving (though, who knows…). The real issue shouldn’t be to focus on banning each and every driver distraction, but in educating drivers to the dangers they face with those distractions, making it clear that they need to be extra careful while engaged in any such activity, and that it’s best not to do any such thing in heavy or highly variable traffic.”
No more iPhones at Apple store – 3G imminent?
TechCrunch
John Biggs looks at Apple iPhone’s latest availability, or rather, lack thereof both online and in stores.
“The Apple online store has stopped selling iPhones completely, stating they are currently unavailable. What does it mean? In some way I’m inclined to say ‘not much.’ Apple rarely telegraphs its moves this far in advance. However, since O2 in the UK has stopped selling iPhones and a number of folks have had trouble buying them in stores, we might be seeing a next-gen iPhone in the next few days. Here’s hoping.”