Tuesday, December 24th, 2013

Time	Event
3:56p	Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing http://www.osnews.com/story/27483/Royal_pardon_for_codebreaker_Alan_Turing "His later life was overshadowed by his conviction for homosexual activity, a sentence we would now consider unjust and discriminatory and which has now been repealed," said Mr Grayling. "Turing deserves to be remembered and recognised for his fantastic contribution to the war effort and his legacy to science. A pardon from the Queen is a fitting tribute to an exceptional man." Finally.
4:02p	BlackBerry posts disastrous quarterly results http://www.osnews.com/story/27484/BlackBerry_posts_disastrous_quarterly_results BlackBerry's new interim chief John Chen has just got a rude wake-up call: the company shipped only 1.9 million smartphones to retailers in Q3 compared to 3.7 million last quarter, and lost $4.4 billion. Most of the phones shipped were lower-priced BB7 models, and it lost a massive $2.6 billion on unsold BlackBerry 10 devices and other associated BB10 charges. Retail channel sales (of phones already shipped) during the period also showed the scale of the drop in its upmarket phones: of 4.3 million devices sold to end-users, only 1.1 million were BB10 handsets. I feel terrible for the people working at RIM. This is the news they have to hear just days before Christmas.

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