One more thing? Yes! This must be the big thing we all have been waiting for! After Apple put us on the wrong path with the iPod Nano and the Motorla ROKR last time, they have now extended an invitation-only event for October 12th! Will it be to let loose some new iPods—perhaps more capacious and featuring Bluetooth/A2DP headphone support? Or will it be for some new high-end Macs? Or both? Or neither? Looking at the invitation itself (click on it for a larger image) it does suggest that maybe – really maybe – finally the video iPod will be […]
Google and Sun: the odd couple?
As it looks now the alliance between Google and Sun Microsystems is a significant development for both companies and for the computing industry, but there seems to be a distinct difference in scope between the grand “multiyear, strategic agreement” the companies heralded at a press conference this Tuesday and the much narrower particulars they actually announced. One of the more tangible things that will happen: Sun will begin distributing the Google Toolbar with its Java software when people download the latter from Sun’s Web site. Google also committed to buying more Sun servers, though they did not reveal how many. […]
“Monkeyboy” Ballmer rides again
“Monkeyboy” Ok folks, this is old news, but nonetheless it’s funny. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft also known as “Monkeyboy” vowed to ‘kill’ Google in a chair-throwing tirade when a senior engineer told him he was leaving the company to go work for Google. Thus the engineer claimed in court documents made public in September this year. C|Net reports about the incident as follows: In a sworn statement made public Friday, Mark Lucovsky, another Microsoft senior engineer who left for Google in November 2004, recounted Ballmer’s angry reaction when Lucovsky told Ballmer he was going to work for the search […]