The Raspberry Pi just got an upgrade, with the $35, credit-card sized computer adored by geeks everywhere recently obtaining an upgrade to 512MB RAM, double that what it used to offer at the same price. With this upgrade, the latest Pi can now handle multimedia, high memory, and mobile applications. This should also enable the tiny computer to run a future version of an Android 4.0 OS.
Whew.
That's all I have to say after the brutal 30+ hour journey back home from Singapore.
Jet travel = one big giant petri dish, and after I took ill during the first leg of my trip from Singapore to Tokyo, my sinuses took it upon themselves to become completely inflamed and congested, so I learned yet another helpful travel trick: Pack sinus spray in the carry-on at all times.
Fortunately, my head never got to the point that it exploded mid-flight, and I was sentient enough when I landed in Austin to be able to drive home. Where I promptly slept for 10 hours.
The weekend in sport was just as daunting: My UT Longhorns got on the wrong side of the Sooners in the Red River Showdown, my Cowboy's QB doesn't know how to count in seconds at the end of a football game, and my New York Yankees lost their beloved captain Derek Jeter in an ankle-wrenching, season-ending heartbreaker, now heading to Detroit down 0-2 to the Tigers in the ALCS.
And then, to awaken today bright and early and discover more potential consolidation in the telecommunications space, this time with SoftBank's 70% stake its buying in Sprint, which amounted to a $20B U.S. stake!
TechCrunch reported the news brought down the Sprint website overnight.
As has been widely reported, Sprint is well behind in the LTE game, and the SoftBank infusion is expected to help Sprint with its continued rollout of the new network technology, as well as consolidate their position in wi-fi broadband provider, Clearwire.
Faster, cheaper, better. Isn't that (almost) always the objective in the technology game?
Speaking of, if you're made in the spirit of a tried and true "Maker Fairean," DIYer, the new Raspberry Pi is now shipping with double the RAM (512MB!) at the same tiny price tag of $35.
The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that runs several variants of Linux and is primed for attraction to emerging growth market countries looking to move into the computing realm at a ridiculously affordable price.
And if that news is music to your geekish ears, also on the Monday morning news run down is Microsoft's announcement it's moving into the digital music game, using its X-Box as a music streaming Trojan Horse.
The Xbox Music service will be available through the Xbox Live service, and on Windows 8 tablets, PCs, and Windows mobile phone devices, and will include free and paid models for streaming AND downloads.
While you're at it, how about delivery of a patch that keeps the "blue screen of death" from ever darkening my virtual door again?!
OK, that's enough silly news banter for the moment.
I have to get back to work -- Information On Demand 2012 is less than 7 days away (more on that shortly!). In the meantime, stay tuned for more interviews conducted last week at IBM InterConnect 2012.
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