Techstrong News Recap – August 29, 2022
On August 29, William Willis covered Moderna suing Pfizer over its COVID-19 vaccine, T-Mobile’s use of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites to provide mobile users network access and Dell avoiding an economic slowdown due to its corporate clients. He also talked about an Ohio court’s ruling that colleges can’t tap into students’ cameras during an exam and Sony’s announcement that it will raise the price of PS5s due to economic pressures. Finally, he previewed articles from DevOps.Com, Digital CxO and Container Journal, which cover Apple’s new hybrid-work requirement, the ins and outs of maximizing cloud investments and the Kubernetes 1.25 release.
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Hi again, everyone here the headlines for August 29th. First up moderna is suing Pfizer over its coronavirus vaccine by stating the allegedly infringed on its mRNA technology. In the legal filing moderna states that fiser copy two of its elements a chemical modification to the MRNA itself in a bit of the virus that the vaccines train the body to recognize back in 2020.
Moderna said it would not enforce its patents during the pandemic to allow for a stronger Public Health response, but now it wants fiser to respect its intellectual property rights. This legal dispute though should not affect vaccine availability as moderna has stated is not looking to remove the Pfizer vaccine. It just wants compensation for its continued use of its technology.
Next T-Mobile has announced that it will use spacex's starlink satellites to provide mobile users with network access and parts of the United States. T-Mobile would use these satellites alongside. It's existing cellular services to provide service where cell service currently does not exist.
This feature should now be available to customers in a beta phase by the end of next year. This news comes as telecom companies are in a race to build up their 5G networks as quickly as they can to catch up to T-Mobile which already has a head start due to its buyout of Sprint recently. In other news while many companies are struggling due to slowing PC sales dial expects it to avoid a Slowdown due to its focus on corporate clients.
For the past two years PC sales of boomed but recently they have waned due to inflation. However, there is a growing trend of companies upgrading their equipment for hybrid work with an estimation of commercial shipments of desktops and workstations to jump upwards to 16% in the third quarter. Companies such as Lenovo and Samsung have warned that chip demand inflation would reduce Revenue but Dell with half its Revenue coming from Enterprise sales is expected to avoid this lump.
Next in the news in Ohio Court ruled that colleges can't tap into a student's webcam to scan the room around during remote exams. The judge found that the room scanning feature of an eproctoring service is an invasion of privacy. The case involved a student at Cleveland State University who stated that he did not have time to remove his personal documents including tax forms from his room prior to starting the exam according to the judge.
The practice of room scanning is in violation of the Fourth Amendment. There's a growing pushback on the eproc during with several other lawsuits as well as other campaigns. So it'll be interesting to see how edtech deals with this issue of trying to balance academic Integrity with preserving privacy rights of students.
Next Sony has recently announced it was raising the price of its PlayStation 5 game consoles following the economic pressures. So he said it would increase the price of disk drive consoles to 550 dollars from its original $500 price in Europe, Japan and Britain. However, Sony said there would be no price increase in the United States where it is currently in a battle with Microsoft's Xbox as it is aggressingly expanding its games subscription services.
Sony has stated that the global inflation rates currency Trends in supply chain issues have caused this which shows that this is just another industry that has been affected by the current state of the economy. com we have an article looking at how communities are reacting to Apple's new requirements of hybrid work. Apple has recently announced that it would be requiring employees to work in offices three days a week.
Several members of the community give their personal feelings about this new mandatory hybrid work announcement. com. On digital cxl.
We have an article looking at how you can make the most of your Cloud investment. 8% in Cloud infrastructure spending. However, it is important that companies are not overspending on cloud Investments.
In this article states that three main factors to look for. Are trying to optimize your Cloud Investments are tracking your a lot allocation time developing cost-effective management policies and ensuring your organization's technological capabilities are set up to be able to meet the needs of cloud. Finally on container Journal we have an article looking at how the technical oversight committee for kubernetes released a combiner update to the cloud native platform adds more than 40 enhancements.
One of these new enhancements includes a replacement to the current pod security pod module. With this release there is an emphasis on addressing two areas that have tended to lag behind as kubernetes husband Advanced storage insecurity. This update hopes to fix some of these issues to learn more about the new update on kubernetes go to containerjournal.
And that's today's Tech strong news recap.
