The Google Storm
Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO has finally announced that he is quitting and is joining the young team of President-elect Barack Obama. The decision was made known late Thursday night during Google’s top brass conference. Sergey Brin and Larry Page were reportedly surprised by Schmidt’s decision. Google has started searching for a new head to lead the company. An insider revealed that the new chief is expected to take office before Christmas.
Though it is not clear yet what portfolio Schmidt might hold in the Obama Cabinet, some workers close to Obama are speculating that Schmidt could be given the Read More...
Apple has done it again. Recently the company announced that it has become the number one distributor of flashlight and calculator applications through the App Store. Scott Forstall, Senior Vice President of iPhone software said that 20 million flashlight and calculator applications were downloaded in October, 2008. He termed this as a rare feat for the Company. He asserted:
We are glad that flashlight and calculator applications for the iPhone and iPod touch have done really good. Now I think we (Apple) know where we are heading and the future of the App Store has become so clear.
Of the 20 million Read More...
Apple has announced that its 2.2 iPhone firmware has a new feature for its fully virtual QWERTY keyboard: the keyboard will behave more like a real, physical keyboard than a software application interface.
The new firmware version--expected to be released by December-- adds a little intelligence to the iPhone keyboard, allowing it to keep track of usage: how many times a key has been used, and even how hard specific keys are pressed.
Donald Lindsay, Interface Designer at Apple, explained: the technology was always in place--we can track keyboard usage, and the multi-touch screen can also be told to measure the pressure Read More...
