Apple is accused of barring certain Mac e-zines from next week's Macworld trade show in New York. Why? Because those e-zines dare to print rumors about the company. This just adds to Steve Jobs's reputation for being a control freak.
Last month, after a press event at Apple's Cupertino headquarters, I made an off-the-cuff observation about the future leadership of the company. In short, I commented on how Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, who took a portion of stage time from Jobs to talk about new notebooks, was wearing blue jeans and a black shirt - Jobs' signature outfit.
Updated: Tony Fadell, the senior vice president in charge of Apple's iPod division, is leaving the company to be replaced by Mark Papermaster, a former Big Blue executive who is being sued by IBM over a non-compete clause.The move (statement), first reported by the Wall Street Journal, marks the departure of one of the executives behind Apple's transformation into an entertainment and mobile handset company.
WASHINGTON -- Besides turning the respective spokesmen for the government and Microsoft into media stars -- at least for their requisite Warholian 15 minutes of fame -- the MS-DOJ trial has torn away the veil on how business really gets done in the computer industry.Computer companies make elaborate preparations and regularly go out of their way to dismiss any suggestion that they are on anything but the best of terms with their business partners.
This week I'll be at the Wall Street Journal's "D: All Things Digital" conference at a balmy resort near San Diego. The advertised highlight is Steve Jobs and Bill Gates making a "historic" joint appearance on stage with hosts Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher.
At the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, AnchorDesk's David Coursey checks out Apple's new iChat AV, which enables Mac users to hold high-quality video conferences over broadband. The software is a major feature of "Panther," the next version of Mac OS X.
Hasso Plattner, SAP co-founder and chairman of the supervisory board, has a strong affinity for design. He donated $35 million to fund a new design school at Stanford University, and has been teaching at the school in Palo Alto, CA.
Microsoft's fourth-generation answer to Adobe Flash, Silverlight 4, was released overnight at the software giant's 2009 Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
A while back, frustration with my inability to get online outside of the office drove me to invest in a 3G data service from Hutchinson's 3. For $30 per month, I get 2GB of data that's accessible pretty much anywhere I go (I do all my work in metropolitan areas).
One of the biggest developer conferences of the year is set to get under way on Monday. Here's how you can watch live, or keep up-to-date with today's news from the keynote.
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