Google sometimes finds itself at a difficult crossroad of wanting to make as much information available to as many people as possible, while still trying to obey the laws of the countries they operate in.
Artist Jorge Colombo may have drawn the dreamy, nocturnal cityscape of Manhattan on the June 1 cover, using his iPhone, but a software engineer named Steve Sprang built Brushes, the iPhone application that transformed Mr. Columbo’s swipes into digital strokes.
So, uh, this would not be your traditional career path for Yahoo engineers.
The Hindustan Times reports that Mohammed Peerbhoy, who is currently in custody in Delhi for allegedly serving as the “media chief” for the Indian Mujahideen, a terror group charged with the September 2008 bombings in the city, turns out to be a former principal software engineer with Yahoo in Pune.
My favorite moment at this year’s Macworld Expo keynote had nothing to do with any of the products that were unveiled–it was was about the unveiling of a person. At last year’s Macworld Expo keynote, Steve Jobs waxed rhapsodic about the Apple engineer who had gone on vacation to the Cayman Islands, shot video, and had trouble editing it–and who then invented the all-new, simpler iMovie as a result.
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