Archive | March 17th, 2010
Apple releases iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 5
Apple today released its 5th beta of the iPhone OS 3.2 SDK today, just 8 days after it released its last beta. In the last beta, Apple removed previously found references to video conferencing functionality, and we’ll keep you posted as to what other goodies developers find in the latest SDK update. via MacRumors
Continue reading...Former head of Apple Legal: Working at Apple was “just crazy”
17. March 2010
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Daniel Cooperman, who served as Apple’s lead counsel from 2007 to 2009, recently decided to take a position at the San Francisco Law Firm Bingham McCutchen, a job that will provide a much less hectic lifestyle for Cooperman who formerly served as general counsel for Oracle as well. Speaking about the fast paced world of […]
Continue reading...Windows Phone 7 Series won’t support “cut and paste”
17. March 2010
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Microsoft has confirmed that its next-gen mobile OS, Windows Phone 7 Series, won’t include support for “cut and paste.” While we’re not terribly excited for Microsoft’s latest mobile offering (have you seen the damn thing?), Microsoft’s reluctance to throw every feature it can into the OS can only be seen as a good thing. Much […]
Continue reading...“Steve Jobs simply hates Eric Schmidt”
17. March 2010
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Check out this interesting video clip via CNBC where Jim Goldman (who has a solid track record of Apple inside info) says that Steve Jobs just flat out hates Eric Schmidt, presumably not just because of Android, but because Jobs views Schmidt as having stabbed him in the back – what with him being on […]
Continue reading...Apple hires RJ Pittman, former Google director of product management
17. March 2010
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With the Apple v. Google rivalry heating up with each passing month, it seems that the “gentlemanly agreement” between the two companies not to poach each others employees is coming to an end. Earlier this week,RJ Pittman, a director of Product Management at Google, announced via Twitter that he was leaving the search giant to […]
Continue reading...Wall Street Journal and NPR working on iPad-centric websites
17. March 2010
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With the iPad launch date fast approaching, Media Memo reports that both the Wall Street Journal and NPR are developing custom versions of their websites to make them more accessible and engaging for iPad users. Kinsey Wilson, who oversees digital media for NPR, says he has been able to create a new version of his […]
Continue reading...Palm Pre running Flash 10.1 fails to impress; Hulu doesn’t work [Video]
17. March 2010
Check out this video footage from the San Francisco Game Developers Conference of a Palm Pre loaded with a pre-release version of Flash 10.1. The user tries to load up Hulu to no avail, and then plays some jittery Flash game that is anything but impressive. More concerning, though, is how utterly unresponsive the Palm […]
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17. March 2010
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