Apple CEO Steve Jobs is taking a medical leave of absence. Apple COO Tim Cook is taking over in Jobs’ absence. This has happened twice before, and Apple’s been no worse for wear.
Good morning! Here are some of today’s top tech links so far. We’ll cover a few of these throughout the day but feel free to get a head start.
If you’re going to give users the Starcraft II Galaxy Editor, a map creating tool that Activision-Blizzard encouraged players to toy around with, then why threaten creators with copyright infringement when someone actually programs something interesting?
To everyone worried that Netflix is spending too much money on bandwidth for Netflix Instant, calm down: Turns out that they spend 20 times more on postage for their DVDs.
If rumor is right, it looks like AT&T is going to start their attack plan to beat the Verizon iPhone. A source has leaked to Gear Live a Best Buy company memo that says that AT&T will be changing text messaging plans to $10 for 1000 messages and $20 for unlimited texting. Each additional message will [...]
With the Great Tablet War of 2011 beginning to take shape, let’s take a closer look at what HP may have in store. Engadget seems to be the beneficiary of some relatively detailed insider information but, as always, nothing’s official until we hear it directly from HP. The company has planned a press conference for [...]
They’ve taken over your iPhone and your free time, and now Rovio’s Angry Birds may be about to take over your television, as well. According to Rovio CEO Mikael Hed, the popular game is being adapted into an animated series that could appear on television.
The potential of the iPad has finally been fulfilled with the news that Playboy will be getting its own App, allowing access to the entire back catalog of the iconic girlie mag, uncensored. Quite how this fits with Apple’s notorious censorship of content in other apps remains to be seen – beyond the obvious “Playboy [...]
Haven’t had time to complete Singularity yet? Project Lead for Singularity Raven Software’s Dan Vondrak sent us some tips that we’d love to share with you. To see other the other Gaming Tip Sheets, click here.
Gamers: You may see the next iteration of the Playstation Portable as soon as next week next week. Two sources tell Bloomberg that Sony will unveil the new PSP (which most people are referring to as the PSP2) on January 27, with the Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play, a smartphone/gaming console, to be announced later in February according [...]
Has it been 25 years already? Jump in the Wayback Machine and check out this TIME article that details the first ever PC virus.
