If sources are to be believed, front-runner for next Microsoft CEO Stephen Elop who was Nokia CEO before the sale to Microsoft is apparently planning sweeping changes within Microsoft if elected.
These anonymous sources claim to be familiar and knowledgable of Elop’s thinking and first-up on the chopping board is XBOX and Bing. You have to remember Elop whilst at Nokia was responsible for axing the Symbian operating system in 2010, which was a bit behind the times but was the original true mobile phone operating system before Apple came along with iOS.
I don’t understand how a company like Microsoft is consistently out of touch with its customers. For a while there it was looking like Microsoft were back on track releasing great products and repairing the damage to their credibility, brick by brick. But when they released Windows 8 they missed the mark and today they’ve officially announced a free upgrade for Windows 8 purchasers in the form of 8.1.
While there are a couple of nice features in there for us desktop users, Microsoft have once again botched what could have been a triumphant comeback for the failed operating system.
It looks like big things are a foot at Google. I run quite a few websites, a music blog and a few other smaller sites. Recently for one of my sites which posts information about upcoming albums I was getting around 600 visits a day, but as of the 25th of September, 2013 traffic to this particular site dropped dramatically by at least 90%. The site went from 600 visits a day to roughly 50 at present.
As it has turned out it seems people don’t actually really care all that much what their friends are listening to or what their favourite celebrities on Twitter are liking. This didn’t stop the media however frothing at the mouth when it was revealed Twitter were releasing a music product called Twitter Music.
What seemed like a potentially great music product actually turned out to be a lacklustre one when it debuted. After purchasing We Are Hunted which was a pretty decent music discovery platform that showed you what was popular across the web, Twitter closed it down after purchasing it for an undisclosed sum believed to be in the tens of millions of dollars and then had the team implement parts of WAH into Twitter Music.
Up until recently I too, much like yourself was developing websites with desktop in mind first and then absolutely racking my brain getting it to work on smaller screens using media queries. You might have noticed that the approach of max-width in media queries and scaling a site down is a hackled approach to responsive development that doesn’t work properly and causes you so much grief you want to punch a hole in your keyboard.
Thanks to Edward Snowden and his trove of illegally obtained government document delights we have an insight into how the NSA works. That their main priority is spying on its own citizens all under the guise of “security” and “terrorism” and the recently leaked budget gives us insight into what areas the NSA is funnelling their money.
Recently it has come out via Snowden comms that the NSA might have the capability to break various encryption schemes and even worked closely with companies developing these encryption algorithms to implement back doors.
Kim Dotcom’s infamously shutdown service Megaupload which relaunched as MEGA earlier this year attracted a lot of media attention. It was looking like Dotcom’s much-loved site was coming back ten-fold, but has MEGA actually failed?
Fast forward almost a year later and has the service actually made an impact? Kim has just announced he’s stepping down as CEO of MEGA to focus on his music venture instead run under himself not the MEGA brand. While he will stay as a stakeholder/shareholder, it looks like he’s exited from the site he was once really passionate about.
Whoa. I bet nobody saw that coming, but Sweden has just announced any Syrian who applies for asylum in Sweden will get it. Basically opening the doors for a potential culture crisis in the years to come.
While you can’t deny Sweden has meatballs of steel doing this and are no doubt deliberately setting a good example in which other countries hopefully do the same, it’s a crazy idea. Sweden isn’t an overly large place and has enough illegal immigration issues to worry about as it is.
Every man, woman and child has written an article proclaiming the death of the PC and that this is the post-PC era that prefers tablets and mobile phones instead.
While you can’t argue people definitely love their shiny pieces of brushed aluminimum and our phones can do what computers were only able to do 10 years ago, computers aren’t dead.
There are a lot of misguided facts but the key misguided fact is slower computer and processor sales. This can be attributed to the fact global economies are going down the toilet (Europe and the United States especially), people can no longer afford the convenience of upgrading whenever they want.
There’s been whispers of an Apple smartwatch for years and in true Samsung style, they’ve showcased a prototype of a Galaxy Gear smartwatch which looks ridiculous. It seriously looks like a shrunken version of the Galaxy S4.
Unless you’re an old man or watch nerd, does anyone serious wear watches any more? I don’t even get why bringing out a smartwatch is actually a priority nor a thing. Whenever you ask someone the time they’ll usually pull out their iPhone, Android or equivalent phone for the time, not look to a watch.