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BlackBerry will die on January 4th — for real this time

The Verge

And, yes, I realize that this is not the first time we’ve announced the death of the company or its devices (and, for reasons I’ll explain below, it likely won’t be the last) but this is a very definite ending for legacy BlackBerry hardware. As of January 4th, any phones or tablets running BlackBerry’s own software — that’s BlackBerry 7.1

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Amazon is bringing macOS to its AWS cloud

The Verge

Amazon is also planning to provide M1-powered devices in 2021. While developers have been able to turn to companies like Macstadium to host macOS instances previously, Apple’s licensing agreement for macOS has always been a bit of a grey area. Apple made this a lot clearer recently with an update to the license agreement for Big Sur.

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MTC Namibia moves OSS to the cloud

TM Forum

Although it’s difficult for MTC to quantify the amount of technical debt it had accumulated, the company notes that it was clearly spending more and more time on increasing hardware requirements and adapting systems to meet new demands from the business. It wasn’t a sustainable approach.

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Rockwell Automation makes shift to ‘as-a-service’ model

CIO Business Intelligence

That’s why, in the summer of 2021, Chris Nardecchia, SVP and chief digital and information officer, set about enabling a transformation that would change Rockwell’s business before it lost ground to a new class of hungry competitors. They realize the result is significantly higher total cost of ownership,” the report’s authors conclude.

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Quibi’s library will live on through the Roku Channel

The Verge

Content from the short-form service will appear on the Roku Channel for free at some point in 2021, though the company hasn’t announced an exact date for its arrival. Roku’s announcement says the Quibi content it has licensed will feature stars including “Idris Elba, Kevin Hart, Liam?Hemsworth, link] — Quibi (@Quibi) January 8, 2021.

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Google’s next Pixels will reportedly switch to a custom in-house GS101 processor

The Verge

The GS101 chip for the 2021 Pixel lineup would be the first fruits of the Whitechapel project, although Axios ’ original report noted that Chromebook chips weren’t expected until further in the future. That report claimed the company would be optimizing its chip for Google’s machine learning technology — something the XDA report corroborates.

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Google launches Ripple, an open standard that could bring tiny radars to Ford cars and more

The Verge

Additionally, the Ripple project at Github is filled with references to Google, including several instances of “Copyright 2021 Google LLC,” and contributors have to sign a Google open source license agreement to participate. “Standard Radar API” appears to be the original name.

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