The race for who will take the lead in the next generation of automotive technology is on, and today Uber is kicking off a program that it hopes will help put it in pole position. Today, the transportation-on-demand behemoth is launching a new electric car service in the UK, in partnership with Nissan and China’s BYD, where it will offer leasing (not purchasing) options for… Read More
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London underground signs powered by Linux.
This is a photograph of an information display in the London Underground. This one is running Linux apparently, a file-system is missing and when the system boots it cannot find the file-system and this results in the system switching to runlevel 6 and rebooting. Someone might have stolen a hard drive from a machine and … Read more
Facebook to be taken down on the 5 November?
A look at the fully-packed racks inside a Facebook data center facility. The unrest in London is continuing with no respect shown for the property and businesses that are looted and torched without no consideration for the damage caused to the formerly peaceful suburbs. But the cleanup is beginning and hopefully the Olympic city can … Read more
London riots organised on Social Networking & Smartphones?
A man stands next to a burned-out van after riots on Tottenham High Road in London on Aug. 7, 2011. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2087337,00.html#ixzz1UWHPRGRK The horrible violence in London, that has made the city look more like Iraq, has been blamed on Social Networking websites like Facebook and Twitter. Will this cause more censorship of the … Read more
London Stock Exchange switching to Linux.
I saw this on Slashdot. LingNoi writes with this excerpt from ComputerWorld UK:“The London Stock Exchange has said its new Linux-based system is delivering world record networking speed, with 126 microsecond trading times. The news comes ahead a major Linux-based switchover in twelve days, during which the open source system will replace Microsoft .Net technology on … Read more