“RIM hires JP Morgan to explore options, most likely pushing for a sale! What did I say people RIM isn’t going to make it so Good Bye to BBM.” —
tazdotcom
(Source: gogole.com)
Schematic of the new iPhone 5?
“Samsung is to launch music hub to compete with Apple iTunes.” — Bloomberg
“Super Malware on the loose; possible a particular Government is behind it.” — Bloomberg
“Could Facebook buy RIM?” — Bloomberg
Could this be the new iPhone 5 coming this fall?
(Source: bgr.om)
“New MacBooks coming in June, next-gen iPhone launching this fall.” —
tazdotcom
(Source: apple.com)
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Star Wars going sexy.
“Facebook Recruiting Former Apple iPhone Engineers for Facebook Phone” —
NY Times
(Source: facebook.com)
The NYTimes revives these rumors this weekend with a report claiming that Facebook is planning to release its own smartphone by next year. Amongst other talent, Facebook has already recruited a number of former Apple iPhone/iPad engineers for the project:
The company has already hired more than half a dozen former Apple software and hardware engineers who worked on the iPhone, and one who worked on the iPad, the employees and those briefed on the plans said.
This is reportedly the 3rd attempt by Facebook to build a smartphone. Previous plans had reportedly “crumbled” after running into technical difficulties. Facebook is now trying to recruit engineers with previous mobile phone experience to streamline the process.
Facebook has a natural interest in selling smartphones. The company already has incredibly popular mobile apps for iOS and Android, but lacks much control on those platforms.
“Mark is worried that if he doesn’t create a mobile phone in the near future that Facebook will simply become an app on other mobile platforms,” a Facebook employee said
Shafilea Ahmed murder: parents 'killed daughter for dating boys’ -
I just had to post this story, its utterly disgusting and a very common problem within the Pakistani community.
You can see from the story the parents are not British where the hubby works as a mini-cab driver and mother can’t speak English and never has worked at all.
The police and authorities should realise Pakistani’s whom are not born (and I don’t mean all) but force their daughters into arrange marriages. Just refer back the TV programme recently aired on CH4 about Bradford… Once again it was the Pakistani mini-cab driver whom walked out of the show because he was asked if his daughter was to date someone outside.
So many British Pakistani Girls have their future taken away to men for Pakistan. All these men want is a British passport.
The UK government needs to get tuff on immigration and questions those.
richard wilson: slipstream at heathrow international airport
WOW.
It was perhaps one of the most baffling and frustrating design choices Apple ever made: the upside down Apple logo. For those of you who haven’t been using Macs long enough to remember this, the “upside down Apple logo” refers to how PowerBooks and iBooks used to display the Apple logo “pointing” at the floor when the laptop was opened.
Former Apple employee Joe Moreno reveals the story behind the upside down logo. Apparently when Steve Jobs and company designed the PowerBooks and iBooks they discovered that if they placed the Apple logo upside down from the user’s prospective when the lid was closed, the user would constantly try to open the laptop from the wrong side — by the hinges, because from that angle the Apple logo was right-side-up.
Now, you would think that a company that prides itself on its branding would want their logo right side up so all the passersby would see it in the correct orientation, but Steve Jobs thought the upside down Apple logo was the right way to go. As Moreno writes:
Steve Jobs always focuses on providing the best possible user experience and believed that it was more important to satisfy the user than the onlooker.
Thankfully, Jobs eventually reversed his decision. But this story does beg the question: were that many people really trying to open their laptops from the wrong side time after time again? If so, the upside down Apple logo is probably the least of their worries. It also goes to show that Steve Jobs, as great of a design genius as he was, didn’t always make the right design choices the first time around.
(Source: tuaw.com)
“It was designed by perfectionist, made by passion, by the book of best practice. So the process goes on.” — Hermes
(Source: Hermès.com)