After the long roller coaster ride that was 2011 for webOS employees, it’s no surprise that many of the top minds behind the former Palm mobile technologies have left HP for greener, more stable pastures. Last year, Richard Kerris, head of webOS worldwide developer relations and a favorite among the webOS community departed the company…
Facebook is ramping up efforts to expand its Open Graph service to include apps from a myriad of other companies. The idea behind their Open Graph system is to add new verbs to the already established status update system. That means that users can update their Facebook to show what they watched on Netflix or…
iTunes U just became even easier to use. This free app which was announced today is a conduit to Apple’s impressive iTunes U catalogue of 500,000 filmed lectures from universities all around the world. The app ties into iBooks’ textbook note taking features, links to class materials and of course audio and video media. It…
In an astonishing move today, Apple has enabled the production of everything from complex textbooks to the next hit novel to be published on its ebook store. With a free application called iBooks Author, writers and publishers will be able to easily add things like animations, movies and even embed Keynote slideshows into books. On…
Apple VP Phil Schiller has pulled the curtain back on the sequel to Apple’s iBooks. The big new features have to do with textbooks. Schiller opened his keynote by highlighting the trouble that America is in regarding its standing in the world for education. His prescription? Why, iBooks 2 textbooks and iPads of course! The…
Although Apple CEO Tim Cook has taken the reigns from late co-founder/CEO Steve Jobs, that doesn’t mean he is doing the job for the same pay. Jobs famously worked for a salary of $1 per year plus other perks. Cook, on the other hand prefers cold, hard cash. In 2011, he was paid $378M which…
Joining Wikipedia, Boing Boing, Reddit, Wired and other internet culture hotspots, Google protested SOPA and PIPA on the 18th. Since Google is essential to how the internet functions for most people, they didn’t go so far as to stop services for an entire day but instead decided to put a huge black bar on its…
In a shocking move, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang has left his post at his company. Previously, he was overseeing the investigation of what to do with the company and its assets and choosing a new CEO (PayPal president Scott Thompson was selected late last year). Yang is quoted as saying the following in a letter…
After the word slipped out that Facebook was having a press event this week, much speculation was fired off as to what they might have up their social sleeves. A report from AllThingsD indicates that the Mountain View-based company is planning on rolling out the Open Graph apps that first saw the light of day…
Coming out of its usual denial-by-silence mode, Apple has posted a PDF of its 2012 Supplier Responsibility Report. In it is something Apple usually doesn’t publish– the results of child labor audits and environmental standards. Regarding the latter issue, Apple admitted: Our team brought in third-party environmental engineering experts who discovered a number of violations.…