In light of today’s shakeups, Apple has posted a revised organization chart on its website. The chart lists the newly minted CEO Tim Cook, as well as the other executive staff. It also shows Jobs’ new position as Chairman of the Board and Cook’s new Board seat as well. Cook’s new bio states: Tim...
Inuit’s GoPayment reader, which competes directly with Square, is making a significant move in the mobile payments space today, partnering with Verizon Wireless to sell its credit card readers in Verizon Wireless’ 2,300 retail stores and business-to-business sales channels. Launched two years ago, GoPayment offers a complimentary app and credit card reader to allow...
Getting quality content for a periodical generally means paying your contributors, and typically that’s handled as a flat-fee transaction, or the production of content is expected in exchange for a set salary. New iPad magazine Once, released Wednesday via the App Store, thinks that a new, digital format calls for a new, more appropriate...
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. We all know that there is a lot of wasted space in most...
When the Apple PR person showed me to my seat at the iPad 2.0 launch, she reminded me that if I wanted to take photos I’d need to sit in the back section. I instead chose the front row, despite every journalistic bone in my body screaming at me to go take the photo...
We feared the day would come but today Apple co-founder Steve Jobs announced he was to officially step down as Apple’s CEO, opening up the position for former company COO Tim Cook to lead the world’s biggest technology company forward (click here to see how it unfolded). Tim Cook becomes Apple’s sixth chief operating...
This is certainly a surprise. Who knew so many messages were being encrypted? Have you gotten an encrypted email in the past week? How about one that was digitally signed, so you knew for certain the sender’s identity? (like the one pictured below) Okay, how about in the past year? Let’s see — I...
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VMware has added support for the PHP, Python and Django programming languages to Cloud Foundry, the open source Platform as a Service the company unveiled in April. Such news isn’t necessarily groundbreaking considering the project’s focus on multi-language support, but how it added PHP, at least, is very noteworthy. AppFog (formerly PHP Fog) is...
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