Google looks outside the company to hire some wholeness , Best Buy calculate to consumers for mythological product research , and spammer look toward Steve Jobs for inspiration . The remainders for Monday , February 6 , 2012 are looking sharp .
Google hires a elderly theatre director at Apple for a top secret project(VentureBeat )
Guess that whole “ no poaching ” matter is well and in truth over . Google has reportedly lured away Apple ’s senior director of intersection wholeness , Simon Prakash , to steer up a “ hole-and-corner ” project , mysteriously entitled “ Project Totally Not Competing With Apple or Anything , badly . ”
‘ Apple high-definition television ’ imagined in Best Buy study : 42 - in model for $ 1,499(The Verge )
In a survey sent to customers to gauge opinion over potential new mathematical product , Best Buy has teased an “ Apple HDTV ” that would measure in at 42 inches and carry a $ 1500 monetary value rag . What the self-aggrandizing box retailer really need to know , though , is whether you ’d buy it . Or like it . Or give it a cute name . Man , that is a quite a little of opinion to have about something imaginary . I ’ll get back to them right after I fill out this survey about my feelings on unicorns .
Digital blow for Murdoch as ‘ secret ’ iPad undertaking folds(The Independent )
talk of secret labor , it appears that Rupert Murdoch ’s News Corp has given the axe to an iPad - relate venture that would have focused on entertainment and sports newsworthiness for the iPad and other tablet . Project Two22 , as it was knight , was keep out down after being deem a failure . We hear that while News Corp has also discontinued Projects Three33 through Five55 , Six66 is still live on potent .
First Nigerian “ Steve Job ” Spam(Tidbits )
Frankly , I ’m amazed that it took this long . The first Nigerian - style junk e-mail letters sport the unsolved will of Steve Job [ sic ] have begun to make their means around the Internet . That ’s correct , you too could be on deck of cards to inherit £ 4 million from the late Apple carbon monoxide - founder . I retrieve I would have been more disposed to believe them if his will detail what to do with his sneakers and opprobrious turtle .
intersection News :
JetBlue 1.0 – JetBlue has bring out its first iOS app , which allows users to script traveling , check in to flight of stairs , sign into their TrueBlue account , track flying update , and view upcoming trips . you could also connect with admirer and family to schedule airport picking - ups and preview in - flight of stairs features such as wireless place and dining menus . innocent .
