When Steve Jobs stepped down as CEO of Apple yesterday, it’s fair to say he was doing a decent job. The company makes some of the most sought-after devices in the industry, and is sitting on one of the largest piles of cash imaginable.
A survey of about 1,000 Apple employees now claims that Jobs’ co-workers was also impressed with the Jobs era, with a staggering 97% of those questioned saying that they believe Jobs was doing a good job… Read More
Word on the street is that the Turkish government is looking to place an order for 15 million tablets over the next three years. The educational project, known as FATIH, aims to put slates in over 40,000 Turkish schools.
So, who is the lucky company that gets to fullfil the estimated $1.7 billion dollar order? The Next Web is reporting that both Microsoft and Apple have been approached regarding the deal… Read More
Apple has received numerous awards throughout the years for its incredible success in the tech industry, and now Apple has received recognition once again from Forbes.
Forbes Magazine has compiled a list of the world’s most innovative companies based on what it calls “the five skills of disruptive innovators.” Read More
It was recently announced that the there are now 100,000 apps made specifically for the iPad in Apple’s App Store, and there are 500,000+ apps available to iOS users.
On the opposite side of the numbers spectrum, Microsoft just hit 25,000 apps in its own Windows Phone Marketplace. Sounds like there’s still a lot of catching up to do… Read More
“How many of you use an iPhone or an Android device?”
When Stephen Elop asked this question, just a few raised their hands. “That upsets me -he continued- not because some of you are using iPhones, but because only a small number of people are using iPhones. I’d rather people have the intellectual curiosity to understand what we’re up against.”
Stephen Elop is a canadian executive who is now in charge of Nokia, the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile phones. They sell millions of phones per day, but the models they sell are low cost devices, sold for the most part in developing countries. In the past few years, Nokia’s share of the smartphone market plummeted form 49% to 25% due to the overwhelming growth of both Android and the iPhone.
Now, at Nokia, they are facing the worst crisis they’ve ever dealt with. They lost 75% of their market value and will be forced to let a lot of their best engineers go… Read More
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect is currently the tech world’s darling when it comes to hacking. The device’s twin cameras and infra-red sensing abilities mean the Kinect is fully fitted for all kinds of hackery.
Apple’s iPad is equally well-liked in the hacking community. A large screen, dual-core CPU, and huge install base make it a great tool for pushing boundaries.
With that in mind, you could be forgiven for thinking that if some clever people found a way to marry the two pieces of hardware together, we could be in for happenings of a cataclysmic nature – human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria! (Ghostbusters, for those wondering where that came from.)
Thankfully though, you’d be wrong… Read More
Talk about a change of pace. Instead of the cat-and-mouse game that Apple has been playing with the jailbreak community for years, Microsoft has decided to go the opposite route and actually invite hackers to jailbreak the company’s own mobile platform, Windows Phone 7.
ChevronWP7 is doing something unprecedented by developing non-approved apps and services for a closed source OS. Microsoft is allowing this initiative in an attempt to make “Windows Phone development more accessible.” Read More
After months of rumors and speculation, Apple revealed the long-awaited iCloud last week. The free service replaces MobileMe for $99/year, and, considering of all the new features, it’s expected to be quite popular.
iCloud is available to all Apple account holders, which Apple estimates to be in the 200 million range. So how can iCloud withstand all that traffic? Aside from their massive NC data center and 12 petabyte digital locker, Apple appears to be using rival cloud services… Read More
Apple’s iconic Apple Stores are known around the world, so much so that they stand out on the crowed streets even while they’re still under construction. Shrouded in black, there is no doubting when an Apple retail location is in the process of being put together behind closed doors.
That is, unless it has a great big Microsoft Windows logo stuck to the side of it… Read More
You can rest easy. Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer, has confirmed that the company will “continue to invest in Skype on non-Microsoft client platforms.”
As we previously reported, Microsoft has acquired Skype to the tune of $8.5 billion. The technology juggernaut plans on implementing Skype’s VoIP technology into its Windows Phone 7 platform, but the company also states that it will continue to support Skype on non-Windows platforms. Read More
