Archive | June 29th, 2012
What say you on the iPhone, Steve Ballmer?
Five years ago today, Apple introduced the iPhone and completely changed the smartphone landscape forever. The iPhone’s place as a revolutionary product is secure and undisputed, but looking back, not everyone thought it had much of a chance. To wit, this now famous video of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer quickly dismissing the iPhone’s chances for […]
Continue reading...The Verge reviews the Nexus 7
29. June 2012
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So Google earlier this week announced the Google Nexus 7, a homegrown Android tablet developed in conjunction with Asus. Priced at only $199 the Nexus 7 is a surefire Kindle Fire competitor and may even attract some folks who are hesitant about laying down extra cash for the iPad. So how does the Nexus 7 […]
Continue reading...Call of Duty: Black Ops – coming to the Mac this Fall
29. June 2012
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Aspyr announced as much with a press release: The Biggest First-person Action Series of All Time Returns to the Mac Call of Duty: Black Ops will take you behind enemy lines as a member of an elite special forces unit engaging in covert warfare, classified operations, and explosive conflicts across the globe. With access to […]
Continue reading...Adios MobileMe!
29. June 2012
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CNET reports: Come Sunday, Apple will make good on a year-old promise: MobileMe, its paid cloud sync and storage service, will go dark. That means files that users have stored on the service — as well as the sites they have published through Apple’s iWeb software — are going to disappear as well. MobileMe users […]
Continue reading...Bertrand Serlet joins mystery startup
29. June 2012
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Business Insider reports that Bertrand Serlet, formerly of NeXT and Apple, is covertly working on a new startup involving cloud computing. And the name of this stealth startup is called Upthere. Job postings for design engineers started popping up towards the end of 2011, by which point the company described itself as being an early […]
Continue reading...Apple Senior VP of Hardware Engineering Bob Mansfield retires
29. June 2012
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Apple’s press release on the matter reads: Apple today announced that Bob Mansfield, Apple’s senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, will retire and the role will be transitioned to Dan Riccio, Apple’s vice president of iPad Hardware Engineering, over several months. The entire hardware engineering team will continue to report to Mansfield until his departure. […]
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29. June 2012
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