Wednesday, August 24, 2011

With Jobs out as CEO, Apple looks to the future (AP)

With Jobs out as CEO, Apple looks to the future (AP)

With Jobs out as CEO, Apple looks to the future (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 08:42 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken Jan. 11, 2011, Tim Cook, Chief Operating Officer of Apple, announces that Verizon Wireless will carry Apple's iPhone, in New York. Apple Inc. on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011 said Steve Jobs is resigning as CEO, effective immediately. He will be replaced by Cook, who was the company's chief operating officer. It said Jobs has been elected as Apple's chairman. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)AP - Since Steve Jobs' return to Apple Inc. in 1997 as CEO, the company has been on an unparalleled upswing, highlighted by the immense popularity of the iPad and iPhone.

In Jobs' second act with Apple, a dramatic revival (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 09:20 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2010 file photo, Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds the new iPad during a product announcement in San Francisco. Apple Inc. on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011 said Jobs is resigning as CEO, effective immediately. He will be replaced by Tim Cook, who was the company's chief operating officer. It said Jobs has been elected as Apple's chairman. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)AP - Steve Jobs' resignation as Apple Inc.'s CEO on Thursday was freighted with sentimental significance, the curtain call on a dramatic 14-year performance in which he rescued one of the world's most beloved brands from the brink of technological irrelevance.

Steve Jobs, Apple CEO and creative force, resigns (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 08:06 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 2, 2011 file photo, Apple Inc. Chairman and CEO Steve Jobs waves to his audience at an Apple event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco. Apple Inc. on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011 said Jobs is resigning as CEO, effective immediately. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)AP - The man in the black shirt and jeans who knew people would fall in love with the iPod, iPhone and iPad before they did is stepping back from Apple Inc., which grew into one of the world's strongest companies as its leader's health failed him.

NASA spots chilled-out stars cooler than the human body (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 05:45 PM PDT

Yahoo! News - When you think of stars, you probably imagine massive, burning balls of fire much like our sun, but there are stars out there in space which you could actually stand on and not be burnt to a crisp. NASA has known of …

$9,000 in stolen camera equipment recovered through Flickr search (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 01:36 PM PDT

Yahoo! News - When one professional photographer discovered that his expensive collection of cameras and lenses had gone missing on a shoot in Hollywood, he could have been out $9,000. Rather than giving up, John Heller, a Getty Images photog, smartly decided to …

Twitter Co-Founders Want to Help Unlock Human Potential With New App (Mashable)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 03:02 PM PDT

Mashable - Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams have announced their first project since leaving Twitter: a partnership with Lift, a new app designed to unlock the human potential. The project falls under the domain of Obvious Corporation, an entity founded by Williams in the mid-2000s to support his various projects. Obvious was revived earlier this year with Biz Stone and former Twitter VP of Product Jason Goldman as co-founders.

SK Telecom says no plan to bid for Hulu (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 08:25 PM PDT

Reuters - South Korea's top mobile carrier, SK Telecom, said on Thursday that it had no plans to bid for U.S. online video site Hulu.

Amazon brings new local deals site to more cities (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 07:23 PM PDT

AP - Amazon.com Inc. is expanding its new local deals site to New York and other parts of the country, hoping discount-happy consumers will flock to its offerings as they have embraced market leader Groupon.

Rumor: New BlackBerry smartphones to run Android apps (Digital Trends)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 07:24 PM PDT

Digital Trends - In a shrewd move to increase its appeal among consumers and kick-start sales, the next generation of BlackBerry smartphones could be designed to run Android apps. It is thought the phones will be launched in the first half of next year.

SF transit board developing cellphone policy (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 03:49 PM PDT

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) agency board of director member Lynette Sweet gestures during a public meeting at BART headquarters in Oakland, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011 to help ease tensions over whether there should be a policy on cutting wireless access to its stations during protests. The discussion was whether it wants to continue using the tactic, which drew unfavorable comparisons to Hosni Mubarak's attempts to cut Internet access to most of Egypt to quell demonstrations protesting his regime. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Transit agency directors appeared ready Wednesday to set a policy allowing police to cut wireless phone access on San Francisco Bay area train platforms, but only in extreme public safety circumstances.

Twitter users respond to Steve Jobs' decision to step down (Digital Trends)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 08:02 PM PDT

Digital Trends - Minutes after Apple announced that Steve Jobs was stepping down as CEO, people around the world pulled out their iPhones (or some such device) and began tweeting their feelings about the news â€" in 140 characters or less, naturally. #SteveJobs quickly became a top trending topic.

TiVo results beat estimates, patents in focus (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 03:52 PM PDT

Reuters - TiVo Inc, a maker of digital video recorders, reported second-quarter results on Wednesday that beat expectations and said it is looking at ways to boost the value of its patents.

Jobs expected to be “closely involved” in iPhone 5 and next iPad launch (Appolicious)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 05:18 PM PDT

Appolicious - While not exactly a surprise given that he has been on leave for most of the year, Apple's iconic leader Steve Jobs officially resigned from the CEO position earlier this evening.

FCC asks AT&T for more info on T-Mobile bid (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 07:30 PM PDT

Reuters - AT&T Inc said on Wednesday that the Federal Communications Commission has requested more information about its acquisition of T-Mobile in relation to its commitment to expand high-speed wireless services to 97 percent of all Americans.

Hulu seen drawing bids from Yahoo, others: sources (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 07:08 PM PDT

Reuters - The deadline for initial bids in the auction for Hulu was extended from Wednesday until the end of the week to allow interested parties more time to examine the online video site's financial information, according to people familiar with the situation.

Apple fans: Company is more than Steve Jobs (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 09:09 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 7, 2010 file photo, Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds the new iPhone 4 during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Apple Inc. on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011 said Jobs is resigning as CEO, effective immediately. He will be replaced by Tim Cook, who was the company's chief operating officer. It said Jobs has been elected as Apple's chairman. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)AP - Apple fans and would-be customers seemed to agree that while Steve Jobs' charisma and innovative genius is one-of-a-kind, the company he built will survive without him.

Newsmaker: Steve Jobs has a different operating system (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 08:25 PM PDT

Reuters - Hard to understand, difficult to work with and deemed irreplaceable by many Apple fans and investors, Steve Jobs has made a life defying conventions and expectations.

Start-up Pure Storage uses exclusively flash-based storage (Digital Trends)

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 08:03 PM PDT

Digital Trends - It’s doubtless that one day flash storage, like SSDs, will replace hard disks for data centers and enterprise storage. SSDs are generally faster, more reliable and use less power than hard disks. As usual in the tech world, the question is who’s going to make the first leap, and when’s it going to happen?
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