On question and answer site Quora, there is a question: “What are the best stories about people randomly meeting Steve Jobs?” Here’s the best one, from a user named Tim Smith, embedded here with his permission: Read Quote of Tim Smith’s answer to Steve Jobs: What are the best stories about people randomly meeting...
Daily Archives: November 10, 2012
It’s Time For Apple To Unleash A Major Software Overhaul (AAPL)
Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Sir Jony Ive, the man in charge of Apple’s software design See Also REPORT: Scott Forstall Refused To Apologize For The Apple Maps Mess Now That Everyone Thinks Apple Is The New Sony, It Might Actually Be A ‘Buy’ Apple’s Design Problems Are Deeper Than You Think The Apple...
Walmart Workers Post Video Of Themselves Destroying iPads, Then Promptly Get Fired
Walmart employees filmed themselves destroying merchandise in a Kentucky Walmart, reports NBC station WLEX18. The video ended up on YouTube and went viral. “This is why you don’t buy an iPad from Walmart,” says a man at the beginning of a video. The workers then proceed to chuck boxes across what looks like a...
Garlic.js stores form values locally, so your users never lose any precious data
Hot off the presses, Garlic.js is a new JQuery plugin made by French developer Guillaume Potier which serves quite a simple purpose: to prevent your users from losing their form data. It may sound a bit dry at first, but when it comes to acquiring new users, usability is everything, and that means preparing for the...
Mozilla launches Webmaker Badges, linked to Persona, so you can brag about your mad coding skillz
Today at its festival in London, Mozilla has launched Webmaker Badges, a new initiative which lets Webmaker users brag about their newfound coding skills. As a primer, Mozilla recently debuted its Webmaker program in hopes of making it “easy for anyone to make something amazing on the web, learning skills as they go.” Webmaker Badges fit seamlessly...
Director General of the BBC has resigned after less then two months on the job
George Entwistle, the Director General of the BBC, has resigned following a report on Newsnight, an acclaimed BBC current affairs show, which falsely accused a former British Politician, Lord McAlpine, of child abuse. In a brief statement outside Broadcasting House, Entwistle said that he had decided to do the “honourable thing” and step down...
Bad Apple: UK judges rip iPad maker over “lack of integrity”
Apple and the British judiciary have been engaged in an ongoing tit-for-tat over a requirement that Apple tell Brits that its bitter rival Samsung didn’t copy the iPad. Today, the judges got the last word with a stinging rebuke to Apple. In case you missed it, the fuss began in July when a UK...
Android this week: Razr M Jelly Beaned; Wallet v. Isis; Nexus 7 refunds
Motorola’s Razr M is starting to show a little benefit from the company being owned by Google. The handset launched two months ago with Android 4.0, but already has an update to Android 4.1 available. The software, known as Jelly Bean, will bring performance improvements, Google Now and improved notifications to the device. It’s...
The two things that could doom the ‘Internet of things’ revolution
It goes by many names these days: Machine-to-machine communications; the Internet of Things; the Industrial Internet; even just “wireless sensors.” In short, M2M is the technology that enables the automated exchange of key information between machines, and then ultimately to humans. With seemingly endless applications that range from mere entertainment (say, streaming video to...
Watch: All The Videos From TechCrunch’s Detroit Meetup [TCTV]
We had an amazing time in Detroit this week, the second stop in our three-city tour for the TechCrunch Northern Meetups. We spent two very full days in the Motor City area talking with developers, entrepreneurs and investors from the heart of downtown Detroit to the college town of Ann Arbor. It all culminated...