Description: Microsoft’s plan is to provide developers with the tools that will let them design an app once, then apply it across all of Microsoft’s Windows 8 platforms, even the Xbox game consoles eventually, with minimal extra effort. Source: The Globe and Mail Date: April 3, 2014 Microsoft’s new strategy for its flagging operating system empire is… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Apple
Urine sample app lets users detect diseases with iPhones
Description: The newest most cutting edge app allows users to test their urine for up to 25 diseases by simply peeing into a cup and taking a picture of a color-coded urinalysis strip. Source: CNET Date: February 27th, 2013 Ever thought a smartphone could detect what was in your urine? Well, now it can. A new iPhone app,… Read more »
Do Google Stores Make Sense?
Description: Google is contemplating getting into the retail game, taking a similar approach to Apple, in order to gain more traction on their products like the Chromebook Pixel. Source: TechCrunch Date: February 21st, 2013 When talking about Apple’s rise from near-bankruptcy to become the most valuable company in the world, people often credit the amazing… Read more »
China Will Soon Become Apple’s Most Important Market
Description: Apple CEO Tim Cook is currently visiting China to strengthen relations with the country’s mobile players. The visit comes after a nearly 3 month delay to roll out iPhone 5 to the worlds largest mobile market. Source: TechCrunch Date: January 10th, 2013 Tim Cook would like to get Apple on a faster boat to… Read more »
After $30 Billion Mistake, Can Tim Cook Manage Apple?
Description: After another astounding year for Apple it appears that questions are arising about CEO Tim Cook. Although Apple’s stock has risen 74% since his August 2011 take-over, major issues with Apple Maps have damaged his successful launch of iPhone 5. Source: Forbes Date: October 1, 2012 The flaws with Apple Maps and previously with Apple’s voice recognition software, Siri,… Read more »
The Ipad Effect on Job Creation
Description: App developers increase staff thanks to the iPad. But how crucial is Apple to job creation? CNN’s Maggie Lake reports Source: cnn .com Date: March 9, 2012 Questions for discussion: Do you feel that iPad release results in more jobs? Explain Should Apple manufacture the iPad in North America? Why? Or Why Not?
As New iPad Debut Nears, Some See Decline of PCs
Description: The chief executive of Apple, Timothy D. Cook, has a prediction: the day will come when tablet devices like the Apple iPad outsell traditional personal computers. Source: nytimes .com Date: March 5, 2012 His forecast has backing from a growing number of analysts and veteran technology industry executives, who contend that the torrid growth… Read more »
Erasing the Boundaries
Description: The biggest tech companies are no longer content simply to enhance part of your day. They want to erase the boundaries, do what the other big tech companies are doing and own every waking moment. Source: nytimes .com Date: Feb 12, 2012 In the old days, you listened to music on your iPod while… Read more »
How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work
Description: Not long ago, Apple boasted that its products were made in America. Today, few are. Source: nytimes .com Date: Jan 21, 2012 When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president. But as Steven P. Jobs of… Read more »
Apple lifts the veil on its plans to remake the educational landscape.
Description: Apple wants Schools to center on Ipads Source: cnn .com Date: Jan 17, 2012 Questions for discussion: Who are the winners in using this technology to transform the text book industry? 2. Who are the losers in using this technology to transform the text book industry?
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