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Tiny $35 Raspberry Pi computer causes big stir on launch day
The $35 credit card-sized Raspberry Pi computer sold out within hours of its debut Wednesday.
(CNN) — The debut of the tiny $35 Raspberry Pi computer crashed its distributors’ websites on the way to selling out within hours of launch.
Looking like little more than a credit card-sized chip of circuit board, the powerful, fully-programmable PC can plug into any TV and can power 3D graphics and Blu-ray video playback.
Its British-based designers at the Raspberry Pi Foundation hope the computer, which has been in the works for six years, will spark new interest in programming among children.
“The primary goal was to build a low cost computer that every child could own, and one where programming was the natural thing to do with it,” said co-founder Robert Mullins.
The computer’s miniature uncased circuit board is crowded with an Ethernet connection for the internet, two USB ports and an SD card port for memory and is powered by a standard USB mobile charger.
The low-cost computer runs a free, open-source Linux operating system and does not include a monitor or keyboard.
The first version of the Raspberry Pi will ship soon to developers, and the hope… 
Google’s Motorola Bid Approved By U.S. Department Of Justice
MICHAEL LIEDTKE and GABRIELE STEINHAUSER 02/13/12 07:23 PM ET AP | Posted on Huff Post Tech
SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s $12.5 billion bid to buy cellphone maker Motorola Mobility has won approvals from U.S. and European antitrust regulators, moving Google a major step closer to completing the biggest deal in its 13-year history.
Monday’s blessings mean Google Inc. just needs to clear regulatory hurdles in China, Taiwan and Israel before it can take control of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. and expand into manufacturing phones, tablet computers and other consumer devices for the first time.
Getting government approval in China looms as the biggest stumbling block remaining. Google’s relationship with China’s ruling party has been on shaky ground since the company blamed hackers in that country for breaking into its computers two years ago. The breach prompted Google to move its Internet search engine from mainland China in protest of laws requiring some results to be censored.
Google prizes Motorola Mobility’s more than 17,000 patents – a crucial weapon in an intellectual arms race with Apple, Microsoft and other rivals maneuvering to gain more control over smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. Google announced the deal six months ago.
The deal…
Report: Media Center to have limited role in Windows 8
by Geoff Gasior — 1:23 PM on February 8, 2012
Microsoft has outlined a number of the big changes coming in Windows 8, including the addition of a touch-friendly Metro UI. Metro’s big fonts and tiled design were obviously concocted with tablets in mind, but they seem just as well suited to home-theater PCs that put users across the room on the couch, often with little more than a remote for navigation.
Rather than equipping Metro for the living room, it looks like Microsoft is going to keep the 10-foot Media Center interface included in Windows 7—and severely limit its reach. The Verge has heard that Media Center will be restricted to special editions of Windows 8. Although Media Center is currently included in all but the Starter edition of Win7, Microsoft reportedly wants to concentrate its TV efforts on the Xbox. Media Center requires additional licensing fees, the site says, so dropping it from the core OS should lower costs. This move is something of a return to form for Microsoft, which first launched Media Center as a special edition of Windows XP.
With PVR-equipped set-top boxes gaining in popularity and consoles increasingly being used to stream video, I…
Reconsidering Gartner’s Cycle of Hype
One theory of technology marketing and acceptance goes like this: A technology causes a media hypestorm and rising expectations. Then it crashes to Earth as the popular press and the public discovers that it’s not all the hypesters said it would be–through no fault of the technologists who brought it to the world in the first place. Then, gradually, the truth about the technology seeps out until finally it reaches its use case–and then becomes that status quo, just waiting to be disrupted as it previously disrupted what came before.
While the violent vicissitudes of this chart make for good TV movies, in reality very few innovations follow this path. That’s because it ignores ‘being ignored.’
90% of the time, new technology triggers are widely and aggressively ignored. While we’re more eager than ever for a savior that will change everything, the number of technologies, pundits, prophets and entrepreneurs is so large that there’s now a line out the door. As a result, most of the things we now take for granted (cell phones, tweeting, insulated windows, email) didn’t follow this curve at all.
In fact, just about every innovation I know of has to make it through the wilderness…
Analyst: Amazon Sold 6 Million Kindle Fires Over the Holidays
Just how much of a success is the Amazon Kindle Fire? According to one financial analyst, a very big one.
Jordan Rohan of investment bank Stifel Niclaus just upped his estimate of how many Kindle Fires Amazon sold over the holiday season, from 5 million to 6 million. In a Sunday note to investors reported by AllThingsD, Rohan calls the Fire a “true tablet market contender.”
If the 6 million number is true, it’s pretty incredible considering the Fire was only released on Nov. 14, so it only had half the quarter, or about six weeks, to rack up all those sales. And although a 6 million figure is still just a fraction of iPad sales over the same period — 15.4 million — it’s more than double the number of iPads sold in the first quarter it was ever available (3.2 million).
SEE ALSO: Amazon Sells 4 Million Kindles, Names Holiday Bestsellers
So far, all Amazon has said about Kindle sales is that the company sold “well over” 1 million Kindle products for each week in December, and that the Kindle Fire was the No. 1 best-selling product on the site as well…
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