Steve Jobs Is Back In Control
Steve Jobs was said to take sick leave from a rare form of pancreatic cancer, but the CEO of Apple remains closely involved in business decisions and key aspects of running the company. This includes work towards the iPhone OS 3.0 and a netbook/tablet device which is larger than the iPhone but smaller than a MacBook.
Apple WWDC 2009 Set For June 8-12
Apple has announced that their annual developers conference WWDC will start on Monday June 8th and run through the 12th at the Moscone West convention center in San Francisco. What will be shown there? Our prediction are Mac OS X Snow Leopard, iPhone OS 3.0, new UI for iPhone and more. Will we see Steve Job delivering his keynote speech?
Guide To Follow Obama’s Presidential Inauguration Online
Lifehacker has compiled a guide on how you can catch the presidential inauguration online if don’t have a ticket to attend the actual function. The actual swearing in ceremony takes place at 12:00pm EST and will last for two hours. Here are some of the online options listed by Lifehacker, for a full list go straight to their website.
Live Streaming:
- Live Senate Feed : from the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies’ official site.
- NBC/CBS/ABC : The Big Three are all in online with free streaming coverage.
- CNN/Facebook: CNN.com and Facebook team up to offer a live inauguration feed.
- Twitter/Current: Current doing the streaming at 11:30 a.m. EST and micro-blogging platform Twitter providing real-time tweets/updates.
- Ustream on iPhone: Ustream.tv to stream the inauguration to your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Apple’s Steve Jobs Has Taken A Leave Of Absence
CNBC has reported that Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs is sicker than what has been reported. He has now taken a leave of absence from Apple due to health reasons.
Steve Jobs has sent out a letter to Apple employees today saying that his health problems are “more complex” than he at first thought. Here is the full letter from TUAW:
Team,
I am sure all of you saw my letter last week sharing something very personal with the Apple community. Unfortunately, the curiosity over my personal health continues to be a distraction not only for me and my family, but everyone else at Apple as well. In addition, during the past week I have learned that my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought.
In order to take myself out of the limelight and focus on my health, and to allow everyone at Apple to focus on delivering extraordinary products, I have decided to take a medical leave of absence until the end of June.
I have asked Tim Cook to be responsible for Apple’s day to day operations, and I know he and the rest of the executive management team will do a great job. As CEO, I plan to remain involved in major strategic decisions while I am out. Our board of directors fully supports this plan.
I look forward to seeing all of you this summer.
Steve
NewTech’s Most Read Story Of 2008
We had a busy year in 2008, re-launching our web studio site aurum3.com and reporting on interesting new technology and game stories for this site. We will re-launch our movie site early this year with more reviews, previews, trailers and other cool features. Sorry for those people emailing me about the movie site, we will reveal this very soon.
Here is the top 10 most read stories of 2008:
- Grand Theft Auto 4 Achievements Revealed
- Apple Launched iPhone 3G For $199
- XBox 360 New Dashboard
- MacBook Air
- MacBook Air Looks Good But Lousy Battery Life
- Apple Wants Blu-Ray For MacBook Pro
- Apple Unleased Mac OS X 10.5.2
- Apple’s Snow Leopard At WDDC 2008
- Playstation 3 Firmware 2.3 Adds DTS-HD Audio
- Fallout 3
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Apple Store Arrived In Sydney
Apple’s 215th 700 store square metre all glass frontage and all glass staircase has opened in Sydney Australia. The store opens to public at 5pm on Thursday 19 June with the first 2500 getting a free Apple t-shirt. The new store is three level high where the first level is used for products and the second and third level is for training and service.
The glass slab is from Germany, the steel walls from Japan, the stone floor from Italy and the maple wood tables from Pennsylvania.
Source: New Apple Store is a glass act
Festive Slow Down
Wishing all of you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We will not be posting much during the festive season and will be back in mid January 2008. Browse through our current and past entries and thanks for your support. From all of us at NewTech.
We are back!
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You will notice that not all things are working fully as we are still fine tuning all the other sections.
It is good to be back!
