Archive | June 6th, 2010
Australian based Jetstar Airways to rent out iPads for $8.40 to passengers
The low-cost and Australian based Jetstar Airways will soon give customers flying dometically the option to rent iPads for in-flight use for only $10 (or $8.40 in US dollars). As you might expect, the devices will come pre-loaded with movies, music, reading material, and of course, games. The iPad initiative is set to begin towards [...]
Continue reading...Alan Kay on creativity, and the ebb and flow of programming languages
6. June 2010
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Alan Kay, by all accounts, is a Computer Science legend, and you can even count the notoriously hard to please Steve Jobs as one of his biggest fans. Kay’s resume speaks for itself, but some of his more notable achievements include helping drive the development of object oriented programming and the graphical user interfaces, along [...]
Continue reading...When AOL CEO Steve Case thought about acquiring Apple and putting Steve Jobs in charge
6. June 2010
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Former AOL/Time Warner CEO Steve Case described to Kara Swisher of All Things D how he floated the idea of AOL purchasing Apple back in 2002 when We had a board meeting, I think in 2002, we had a strategy session.. and one of the suggestions I made was that we acquire Apple and put [...]
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6. June 2010
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