Friday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on February 11, 2005 at 6:27:16 PM
Lokitorrent gets shutdown.
In case you didn't hear, HP's CEO has stepped down. Now the company will be broken into a bunch of smaller pieces.
Will cars drive themselves?
Dell see profits grow.
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Hard numbers on the site's traffic are hard to come by. However, according to researchers at the Delft University of Technology, LokiTorrent was responsible for more than 800,000 downloads in the month of October alone. MPAA executives said the information could "quite possibly" lead to lawsuits against individuals. "This should give us information about LokiTorrent visitors who were involved in flagrant piracy of filmed entertainment," said John Malcom, director of worldwide piracy operations for the MPAA. "We are going to look at all the information...and decide what the appropriate action is to take."
In case you didn't hear, HP's CEO has stepped down. Now the company will be broken into a bunch of smaller pieces.
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Corporate reorganization has been the dominant constant in the past five and a half years at HP. First came the attempted buyout of PriceWaterhouseCoopers for $18 billion in 2000, in an attempt to better compete with IBM. High-end consulting services--that was the thing that would boost HP's profits. IBM later grabbed the company for about a third of the price.
Will cars drive themselves?
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Among the technologies being looked at for the intermediate future are radar-and-camera systems that warn drivers of objects in their blind spot or ahead on the road. For instance, Hattori showed off a concept called Night View in which a near infrared camera captures images of people, animals or objects in the road beyond what can be seen with headlights. NEC, meanwhile, provided details on sensor systems that give visual information to drivers.
Dell see profits grow.
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At market close Thursday, Dell reported net income for the quarter of $667 million, or 26 cents per share, following a one-time tax charge related to the American Jobs Creation Act, which allows corporations to repatriate foreign earnings at a reduced tax rate. Without the charge, Dell posted a higher-than-expected profit of $947 million, or 37 cents, for the quarter. That's up from $749 million, or 29 cents, a year ago.