We may be living in a “post PC” world according to some, but PCs are unquestionably still big business, and they’re now a bigger business in China than anywhere else. That’s according to the latest report from market research firm IDC, at least, which found that both PC sales and shipments in China inched ahead of those in the US for the second quarter — the first time that’s ever happened, and earlier than IDC had previously projected. In terms of hard numbers, that translates to sales of $11.9 billion in China (compared to $11.7 billion in the US), and shipments of 18.5 million units, which represents a 14.3 percent jump year-over-year (as opposed to a 4.9 percent drop to 17.7 million units in the US). Not surprisingly, Lenovo is the big winner in all of this — it’s both the top PC maker in China and the fastest growing one, with a market share just shy of 32 percent.

via: engadget/pc world

Undoubtedly, everybody reading this knows the news: Osama bin Laden is dead.  What’s interesting to me, though, is that he wasn’t killed the way I’d have expected. I’d have been willing to predict that he would be killed by one of two things: 1) by unmanned drone attack or 2) by lack of access to the modern medicines he needed for his reported kidney problems. Either way, I figured it would be through modern advances, modern technology — or lack thereof, that he was killed.

The truth, as it turned out, was different. He was killed by human beings in a firefight.

I’m also guessing that since they had his exact location, developed “from a lead” last August, his whereabouts were probably determined by old fashioned human intelligence, not satellites. I’ll doubt we’ll ever know the full story behind that, though.

Congratulations to the analysts who tracked the data and the men in uniform who carried out the mission.

Bin Laden’s death will not mean the end of terrorism, nor will it bring back the victims of 9/11.  But it will ensure that bin Laden will never again be responsible for anyone else’s death.

I’ve seen this quote by Mark Twain floating around the internet tonight, “I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”

I’ll drink to that thought tonight.

via: Forbes