Archive | April 6th, 2011
Microsoft debates overzealous retail expansion; Ballmer convinced “to hold back”
One of the integral components of Apple’s resurgence under Steve Jobs has been the company’s retail strategy. Though the ubiquity of Apple retail stores may make it easy to forget, it really wasn’t all that long ago that Apple products were hard to find, and often displayed haphazardly in stores like CompUSA and Office Depot where store […]
Continue reading...New Atari app offers 100 classic Atari games for $14.99 – currently available only in New Zealand
6. April 2011
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Atari recently released an Atari Greatest Hits app that contains an impressive 100 classic Atari Games that encompass both Arcade and Atari 2600 titles. Breaking things down, there are 18 Atari Arcade games like PONG and 96 Atari 2600 games. The app costs $14.99 and is available for both the iPhone and iPad and includes […]
Continue reading...Google product chief Jonathan Rosenberg resigns
6. April 2011
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With Larry Page now in firm control as CEO of Google, significant management shakeups have already begun. This past Wednesday, Jonathan Rosenberg announced that he was leavingthe search giant after 9+ years at the company. The impetus for the departure was the result of one of Page’s first orders of business as CEO – asking […]
Continue reading...Apple purchases 12 Petabytes of storage from Isilon Systems
6. April 2011
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Forget terabytes, you’re not really ballin’ unless you’re dealing with petabytes – and that’s exactly how Apple rolls. StorageNewsletter is reporting that Apple recently placed an enormous order for 12 petabytes (that’s 12,000 terabytes) of storage support from Isilon Systems. Based out of Seattle, Isilon currently boasts over 1,500 clients and markets clustered storage systems and […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt garner high CEO approval ratings, Steve Ballmer and Carol Bartz not so much
6. April 2011
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An anonymous survey taken by Glassdoor.com recently compared CEO approval ratings in 2011 against approval ratings from 2010.
Continue reading...Macalope’s look at the 10 biggest Apple fools of the past year
6. April 2011
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April Fools Day on the blogosphere always brings with it an assortment of jokes and spoofs that range from the annoyingly stupid to cleverly brilliant. Of course, there are always a never ending supply of moronic tech pundits who spew nonsense so consistently that you’d think every one of their posts is an April Fools Day goof. […]
Continue reading...Apple rumored to be eyeing retail location in New Orleans
6. April 2011
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If you happen to live by a Borders, you may have noticed that many of the booksellers locations are going out of business. Indeed, Borders Group Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection in mid-February and has already started closing down hundreds of outlets. One of those locations is a Borders located in New Orleans on the […]
Continue reading...Suppliers delivered 2.4 – 2.6 million iPad 2s to Apple in March
6. April 2011
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Digitimes reports, not too surprisingly, that iPad 2 sales have been selling at a much faster clip than the original. Further, Apple reportedly “took delivery of 2.4-2.6 million units in March.” It’s been no secret, of course, that Apple has been selling iPad 2s in extremely strong numbers, yet they haven’t disclosed any sales figures […]
Continue reading...Steve Wozniak: Tablets are PCs for “normal people”
6. April 2011
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Earlier this week, Apple co-founder and all around gadget geek Steve Wozniak delivered a keynote speech at Storage Networking World in California. At one point, someone in the audience asked Woz, who is currently the Chief Scientist at Fusion-io, what his thoughts were on the iPad and how tablets were poised to affect the computer […]
Continue reading...Apple releases “iAd Gallery” app to showcase rich ad campaigns
6. April 2011
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Apple yesterday released a new app titled iAd Gallery which, as you might expect, simply features a gallery of iAd campaigns. Don’t worry, the app is a free download. The iAd Gallery is a celebration of advertising, featuring iAd campaigns from some of the world’s best brands and their advertising agencies. The iAd Gallery gives […]
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6. April 2011
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