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Steve isn’t happy.
That’s pretty understandable considering the poorly done launch of MobileMe. In the letter to Apple employees, Steve has a chance to speak his mind on the subject.
The whole e-mail can be read after the jump:
Apparently there’s a new search engine ready to take on Google. Claiming to have indexed over 120 billion webpages, over three times as much as Google, this $33 million backed company isn’t kidding around.
Lead developer Anna Patterson left Google in 2006 to work on this project, with another 2 Google developers as well. The company, spelt Cuil but pronounced Cool, presents the information in a more magazine style, trying to bring back the black and white scheme we never knew we missed. the claim to provide more relevant information then Google does, but feel free to try searching the same keywords in both, especially your name or a website name, and you’ll soon find out how lacking it is in comparison.
How can you try and make a new Google when the flaws in Google aren’t that big?
To clear the air over the recent accusations that Steve Jobs has cancer, the man himself called over to the New York Times reporter Joe Nocera, and started off the conversation in this fashion:
“This is Steve Jobs. You think I’m an arrogant [expletive] who thinks he’s above the law, and I think you’re a slime bucket who gets most of his facts wrong.”
Afterwards, Jobs agreed to an off record interview where he actually disclosed that it was not cancer, but an unrelated and unserious health issue that was causing him to look thinner than usual. Jobs also stated that his health is none of the publics concern, but Nocera seemed to feel otherwise in his article published today in the New York Times.
Should Steve Jobs health have this much impact on Apple Stock?
Astute Apple fans may have noticed that earlier today the Apple website went down, leaving their ever telling “We’ll be back soon.” post-it. Makes sense of course, with the 3G iPhone and MobileMe launching this Friday in the U.S. and a full day earlier in New Zealand.
But when the store returned from it’s quick sign-off, there were no visible changes. Just because we can’t see anything, doesn’t mean Apple doesn’t have everything in place and ready to go. The ability for them to instantly switch everything over without downing the site closer to the launch is actually a much smarter move on their end, so that when we’ve all got our new devices in hand, there is absolutely no down time.
Let’s see what Apple slips out this week to keep the anticipation growing!
We all know that our beloved electronics are energy hogs. So what if your PS3 costs more to run than your fridge? It’s got Metal Gear Solid 4!
It appears that Sony Ericsson is doing what it can to save the world, winning Greenpeace’s Greener Electronics Guide award for most environmentally-friendly electronics company.
The company was the only to score more than 5 out of 10 on a scale that factored companies on recycling programs, use of harmful chemicals and energy waste. Microsoft and Nintendo both scored below a three on the scale. At least Sony is winning one aspect of the video game console war!
So Ian Usher of Australia broke up with his long time wife and felt enough was enough.
As is the case with most problems, Usher went to eBay and decided to sell his life – job, friends, home – to the highest bidder.
As cool and interesting this is, it’s happened before, multiple times. But I suppose the mainstream media needs a cool feature story and Usher gets some scratch for appearances on the Today Show, so everybody wins.
Bids reached $2.2 million, but have been lowered back to $300,000 because those were most likely joke bids.
I think the guy should just deal with break-ups like everyone else – Cure records, alcohol and maybe some ice cream.
The beloved .Mac service offered by Apple is no more. Starting in July, MobileMe will be taking it’s place, directly from me.com. Dominating Mac’s, PC’s, and iPhones, MobileMe is a completely wireless synchronization and storage service that allows you to synch multiple devices with Mail.app, iCal, and your Address Book instantly.
$99/year includes access to services like PushMail, but if that’s not enough to convince you alone, there will be a 60-day trial available at launch. With 20GB of HD space, my only question is, can we synch our music up with it?
The format that had set Microsoft Office 2007 apart from the rest of their competition, Office Open XML (OOXML), has now officially been take under control by the ISO. The purpose of the ISO taking charge of it is to allow them to find all of OOXML’s shortcomings and fix them before officially making it the new global standard.
The voting in wasn’t exactly unopposed, but more than 75% of the vote went in favor of making it the new standard. Those notably against the vote where the founder of Ubuntu and Red Hat Linux. We’ll see if this fast track approval will create a compatibility with OpenDocument Format, or simply leave us with a promise of doing so while giving Microsoft the crown.
It looks like we’re not that far away from getting a text message that reads “This is a test of the emergency broadcasting network”. The FCC is finalizing their system that cell phone providers can choose to opt in to, allowing their subscribers to receive a 90 words or less alert about terrorist attacks, severe weather warnings, and Amber alerts as well.
Even at 2 letters per word, 90 words is going to take at least 2 text messages to get across the meaning.
Source: CNN
Originally thought to be receiving the boot, Windows XP has been spared for at least the next 2 to 3 years thanks to the new fad of mini PC’s like the Asus Eee PC, Everex Cloudbook, and the Classmate PC. The second line of these popular machines are expected to come preloaded with Windows XP as the systems are more geared towards faster loading and lighter system loads.
Could this all just be a well planned excuse to keep those resistant of Vista from abandoning the OS all together? Or a ploy to convince users to hold out until yet another Windows OS is released?