With all the news about Bill Gates retiring and the new iPhone coming out I found it very interesting to watch this highlight video from last years D5.
It was May 30th 2007, a month before the original iPhone was released.
Watching the video I can’t tell if behind closed doors they are truly friends or really loathe one another. What do you think?
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Microsoft promises to support Windows XP until 2014
It may finally be starting to move down the availability ladder with computer manufacturers (netbooks and the like aside), but it looks like Microsoft is going to be standing by Windows XP for a good while yet, with it now pledging to support the tried and true OS through 2014. According to Microsoft senior VP Bill Veghte, that support will include security patches and “other critical updates,” and he adds that “customers who still need Windows XP will be able to get it,” despite plans to stop selling a retail product and stop licensing it directly to PC manufacturers after June 30th. For those keeping track, that’ll mean that Microsoft will be supporting Windows XP for a full 13 years since its release — assuming it doesn’t push out that support window again when users refuse to upgrade to Windows 7, that is.
(Via Engadget)
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Fortune Magazine: Possible Jobs Successors
Fortune on CNN/Money.com has a rogue’s gallery of photos online today. The gallery features 11 executives at Apple, each of whom is considered in one way or another to be a possible candidate to replace Steve Jobs if he steps down. If you want to skip the gallery, the full story is on one page at Fortune’s Apple 2.0 blog.
My personal favorites for “The Next Steve” are Ron Johnson (Senior VP, Retail) or Scott Forstall (Senior VP, iPhone Software, pictured at right). Why? Johnson is charismatic and has established Apple as a retail powerhouse. Forstall, because he is as anal as Jobs about interface design and kinda looks like “I’m a Mac” actor Justin Long.
After you take a look at the article, go to TUAW and vote for your favorite candidate for the next Apple CEO.
(Via (TUAW))
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It all comes together
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(Via i-luv.com)
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Freeverse Intros Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune Deluxe
Freeverse announced the immediate availability of Jeopardy! Deluxe and Wheel of Fortune Deluxe for the Mac on Tuesday. The games are based on the syndicated TV game shows and include graphics and rules that match their real-world counterparts.
Jeopardy! Deluxe
Jeopardy! Deluxe includes over 3,000 clues written by the TV game show staff. Wheel of Fortune Deluxe sports road trip, group play and puzzle of the day modes.
Wheel of Fortune Deluxe
Both titles are priced at US$19.95 each, and are available at the Freeverse Web site HERE
(Via macobserver )
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Microsoft/Yahoo full buyout talks on again?
Conflicting reports have surfaced today of Microsoft potentially renewing its interest in a Yahoo deal. Information sent from “multiple” sources to TechCrunch claim that the two firms have not only resumed talks after Yahoo’s abrupt conclusion of negotiations but that Yahoo is willing to entertain a bid lower than the $33 Microsoft says it proposed immediately before talks first broke down in early May. The move is said to be triggered both by a steep drop in Yahoo’s share price as well as pressure to secure an important agreement with Microsoft.
The search engine pioneer is also in upheaval after several key executives left the company within the past several days, including the founders of Flickr and Del.icio.us. A threat of a proxy takeover of Yahoo’s board by investor Carl Icahn has been minimized at the same time, however, as Microsoft’s statements that it has no more interest in a full deal have reportedly quashed Icahn’s plans.
TV network CNBC, however, has responded to the claims by citing a contact said to be close to Microsoft who rejects notions of a full deal.
“There is no deal for the whole company, and nothing has changed as of today,” says the unnamed insider, though the contact doesn’t mention the possibility of a revived partial deal that would include buying out Yahoo’s search ad division.
Neither Microsoft nor Yahoo has publicly commented on either of the rumors.
(Via MacNN)
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You heard right, folks. American Airlines is planning to open up the world wide web to passengers on board an unspecified round-trip flight from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and Los Angeles. The Gogo service, provided via Aircell, will be free for patrons tomorrow, but will eventually run users $12.95 for flights greater than three hours and $9.95 for trips under said threshold. We’re also told that more trials are expected to get going on flights between New York and San Francisco and New York and Miami, though no time frame is given for when the service would escape the beta stage and hit mass implementation. Additionally, the Gogo system is supposed to “prioritize the flow of data so that passengers downloading movies or large documents won’t prevent other passengers from getting their email,” so don’t expect to use that excuse for not sending in those Q2 close reports.
(Via Engadget)
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A purportedly leaked memo supplied today to BGR suggests that the launch of the iPhone 3G at AT&T stores on July 11th will take place in the morning rather than Apple’s recent preference for evening launches. Store managers are said to be expecting an 8AM launch rather than the 6PM launch for the original launch as well as some of the company’s recent retail openings and its Leopard introduction.
It’s unknown whether this time would apply to all of the US or the rest of world, or would change so that all regions are live at once.
The report is unconfirmed but may tie closely into the activation method for new iPhones, which must be activated in stores rather than at home and take between 10 to 15 minutes to be ready for use. The added time is widely understood to result in longer lineups and in an evening launch could potentially block customers at the back of the line from buying the phone before stores close.
(Via Electronista)
Usmagazine.com | EXCLUSIVE: Kathy Griffin: I Never Slept With Steve Wozniak
I feel sorry fro WOZ!!!!
Kathy Griffin says she never went all the way with her ex, Apple co-founder billionaire Steve Wozniak.
“We were dating, but were just friendly. I never f—-d him or anything!” she told Usmagazine.com during a visit to our NYC offices last Thursday.
“The truth is,” she added, “we really were friends the whole time.”
They definitely had their laughs together, she said.
“When we went to the Emmys together, I put on this really huge engagement ring and didn’t tell him,” she told Us. “There are these great photos of me posing with this great big fake diamond ring.
“He didn’t notice!” she added. “I was like, ‘Oh, by the way at the Emmys, I had on a fake engagement ring!’ And he was like, ‘Oh, that’s very funny.’”
She announced their split in April (they met in 2007 after he watched her perform).
After they called it quits, she said “he met someone very quickly and then they [got] engaged.”
No hard feelings, said Griffin, who plans to visit Wozniak (who appears on her Bravo reality show) in Saratoga, New York, on July 11.
(Via usmagazine)
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Will we see 10.5.4 before July 11th?
AppleInsider thinks so. According to their report the newest build, “9E17″ has no known issue and that only two fixes have been in the last 10 days.
The article suggests that we’ll see 10.5.4 before July 11th, because of a need for the system to integrate Mobile Me support into OS X.
I think its highly likely we’ll see some kind of update in the very near future. I seriously doubt Apple is going to go through this much trouble to rebrand the .Mac service without issuing an update to change it throughout OS X as well.
(Via Apple Gazette)
