This isn’t Apple related at all, but an interesting read about one person’s experience working at Google after just 1 month on the job. The first thing that I’ve learned is that internally Google is incredibly open, but externally there is a lot we can’t say. I understand and support a lot of the reasons […]
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Given the perplexing backlash and seeming hatred being directed at the iPad, we thought it’d be somewhat instructive to go back in time and take a look at what some people were saying about the iPod when Steve Jobs first announced Apple’s first MP3 player back in October, 2001. When first released, the original iPod […]
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It looks like Amazon won’t be taking Apple’s iPad lightly. The New York Times reports that Amazon recently purchased a New York based company named Touchco that specializes in touchscreen technology, a feature which the Kindle obviously lacks. Amazon will reportedly merge Touchco’s employees and technology into its Kindle hardware division, a move which is an obvious […]
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New Media Age reports: Apple has hired former Microsoft EMEA mobile advertising sales manager Theo Theodorou – who built Microsoft’s mobile ad network in new territories – as head of sales EMEA at its recently acquired mobile ad network Quattro Wireless… Meanwhile, Todd Tran, previously MD of Group M-owned mobile marketing agency Joule and a […]
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Comments Off on Sweeping multitouch comes to the Nexus One
Google yesterday announced that it had issued a software update for Nexus One users to enable broad multitouch functionality, including the much desired “pinch to zoom” feature for Google Maps. A few months ago, we reported that the initial Android phone, the G1, didn’t include multi-touch functionality because Apple asked Google not to implement it. […]
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Nothing like a shroom trip to turn the iPhone into the iPad! via digg
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3. February 2010
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