Monday, May 11, 2009
Steve Jobs Gets Pwned
Steve Jobs is probably one of the best and most visionary CEOs in the world, and a national treasure.
Steve Jobs is probably one of the best and most visionary CEOs in the world, and a national treasure.
The Twitter microblogging service has received an absurd quantity of press in the mainstream media lately.
The cyborg, or cybernetic organism–part human, part machine–is a staple of science fiction, from “Star Trek” to “The Six Million Dollar Man” to “RoboCop” to “The Terminator.” These pop culture cyborgs usually involve robotic machinery to enhance physical capabilities rather than mental ones because that’s more visual, more entertaining and easier for the general public to understand.
Facebook quietly changed its terms of service agreement recently. Bloggers freaked, triggering a public uproar that forced Facebook to revert back to the older version and come up with a better ToS agreement.
The Beijing Olympics begin in two weeks. But for Apple, the China games have already begun. The company opened a shiny new Apple store in Beijing Saturday–the “first of many” in China, according to an Apple official. The race is on. But is this an event Apple can win?
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