Tech Week in Review 8-26-2011
Steve Jobs Steps Down. Tim Cook Steps Up. Yes, you read that right. Steve Jobs is no longer the CEO of Apple. Tim Cook, former COO, will step in to take wheel as Apple gets ready to launch the iPhone 5. In his resignation letter, Jobs says he would like to move to Chairman of [...]
Read MoreUnited & Continental Replace Flight Manuals With iPads
United Airlines announced Tuesday that it is replacing its pilots’ flight decks with iPads. Rather than carry around 38 pounds of operating manuals, charts and logbooks, the 11,000 pilots at United and Continental will use a pre-loaded iPad. United started distributing iPads to pilots earlier this month and plans to have devices to all pilots by [...]
Read MoreiPad App Creates Continuous Playlists From YouTube Videos
Scour YouTube for music and you’ll find an overwhelming collection of videos to choose from. MusicTandem, a newly-released application for iPad, engineers an easy-listening environment should you wish to sit back and let the application build out custom, personalized artist and music channels, à la Pandora, for you. Once you pay the upfront application sticker price [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 8-19-2011
Google Acquires Motorola Google is set to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. The company that has popularized the Droid brand and helped propel Android to over 150 million devices worldwide will now be protected under the Google umbrella. According to Google, they will continue to operate independently. Most see this move as a way [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 8-12-2011
Google+ Gets Gaming and Shuns Pseudonyms It’s been rumored for a while and now comes to reality. You can now play games on Google+. This may sound awesome for some and a huge disappointment for others, but Google+ aims to make sure we don’t end up getting spammed to death everytime a friend beats a [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 8-5-2011
Microsoft and Google Twitter Tiff Google’s SVP and Chief Legal Officer, David Drummond, sick of all the patent pressure against their Android operating system, went in on several of Google’s competitors for attempting to use “bogus patents” to destroy the mobile OS. More specifically, Drummond called out Microsoft for getting in bed with other rivals [...]
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