Steve Jobs Resigns

Apple’s Board of Directors today announced that Steve Jobs has resigned as Chief Executive Officer, and the Board has named Tim Cook, previously Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, as the company’s new CEO. Jobs has been elected Chairman of the Board and Cook will join the Board, effective immediately. “Steve’s extraordinary vision and leadership saved Apple and guided it to its position as the world’s most innovative and valuable technology company,” said Art Levinson, Chairman of Genentech, on behalf of Apple's Board. “Steve has made countless contributions to Apple’s success, and he has attracted and inspired Apple’s immensely creative employees and world class executive team. In his new role as Chairman of the Board, Steve will continue to serve Apple with his unique insights, creativity and inspiration.” “The Board has complete confidence that Tim is the right person to be our next CEO,” added Levinson. “Tim’s 13 years of service to Apple have been marked by outstanding performance, and he has demonstrated remarkable talent and sound judgment in everything he does.” Jobs submitted his resignation to the Board today and strongly recommended that the Board implement its succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO. As COO, Cook was previously responsible for all of the company’s worldwide sales and operations, including end-to-end management of Apple’s supply chain, sales activities, and service and support in all markets and countries. He also headed Apple’s Macintosh division and played a key role in the continued development of strategic reseller and supplier relationships, ensuring flexibility in response to an increasingly demanding marketplace. Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced iPad 2 which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices. (Article taken from http://www.pcbdesign007.com/pages/zone.cgi?a=78616&artpg=1) So thank you!

Apple Announces iCloud

If you are not familiar with a "cloud" it is a place in the outer cosmos that hold all of your data. So instead of saving everything locally on your hard drive, you save your stuff on a server that allows you to access your files anywhere in the world that you are. Think in terms of water that evaporates into the air and you have the ability to make it rain anytime you want. Are you following me? One more example. Lets say you finish a level of Angry Birds at lunch while playing on your iPhone and you go back to work. While there, you get bored and you sneak off to the bathroom with your iPad. You can pick up where you left off at lunch!

Apple has announced that they have a cloud and of course they very creatively threw an "I" in front of the word cloud to give us the iCloud. It will be free for up to 5G of data but nothing was said about paying for more storage. However, it could be assumed that you would have to pay for the expanded storage space.

Normally you can sync your iTunes up to 5 devices, well this allows you to sync up to 10 devices, you Apple junkie!

For more info on this check out the Apple website!

Where To Charge Your Electric Car?

You've gone green! Way to go! Its probably the best route you can take, seeing as that gas prices are starting to get out of control AGAIN and frankly, I think you better with your arms and legs. I was reading an article on AOL about the most fuel efficient cars for 2012 and electric cars when I started to think about that dreaded fear that everyone has when driving your car... running out of gas. Well, in an electric car, what if you run out of battery power? You cant just walk down the street with an energy can and fill up. You have to charge that sucker up. So where do you recharge the car? ECOtality is hoping to ease your fears with a new app called Blink that is designed to show you where nearby charges are according to you current location or location of your choice. You can also use Blink to see where chargers might be in use and to get notifications of when the status of chargers change. Be looking for Blink to hit the market this summer for iOS, Android and Blackberry

SPIN Play puts Spin on Subscriptions, adds Music

SPIN Magazine and Spin.com have launched a digital subscription based magazine for the iPad that offers all the news and reviews from Spin.com – but also adds subscription based content from the magazine, pairs it with streaming music to add the experience, and gives you the ability to listen to songs straight from the app itself. These are the sorts of innovative ideas that will launch New Media into the future, a fantastic concept from a music magazine. Instead of simply offering a digital version of the print magazine, or offering exclusive content which isn’t particular interactive, they’ve gone a step further, an interactive and user-based experience, which is built perfectly for the iPad environment. The free app will feature a steady mix of news and articles from Spin.com for no cost, which is what you’d expect from any basic app. For $1.99 an issue (or $7.99 annually), you’ll receive your SPIN Play subscription which gives you all the content of the print version, however you’ll get something that the print users wont, 60-plus songs and 30-plus exclusive videos. Boosting the popularity and notoriety of the bands and artists that they interview and feature is obviously paramount to the magazine. Moving forward into digital content delivery like this will definitely help. It also sets a benchmark for websites, magazines and newspapers from here on out. The possibilities to feature digital media content on a monthly subscription basis certainly isn’t a new concept, but pairing it with the ease of use of the iPad, the want for instant-media delivery, and to do it at a price point that competes with the print version is definitely setting a new standard. I for one look forward to the new digital playground that this could start, and hope that most other publishers who are thinking of launching digital versions, or even current publishers looking towards the next best upgrade for future versions, should look to Spin Play as an example of ‘doing it right’. Read more: http://www.148apps.com/news/spin-play-puts-spin-subscritions-adds-music/#ixzz1HLGoyHXE

260,000 Android Users Infected with Malware – Could That Happen to iPhones?

260,000 Android phone have been infected with malware downloaded from the official Google Marketplace. Could this happen to iPhones and iPads? Early last week it was reported that a number of applications had been discovered in the Android Marketplace that contained malware. As things developed, we learned that the apps were sending certain ids and preferences to another server, but not really doing anything damaging. The applications were exploiting a known vulnerability in the Android OS to get this data. It has been revealed since then that these applications have the capability to download new code and then do additional things. Google has removed the applications from their marketplace and users phones using their remote kill capability. This should have removed the known offending apps from the vast majority of users phones. They will also patch the OS and somehow fix the malware installed on over 200,000 users’ phones. One of the problems with the Android model is that Google can’t release a fix to all users of the OS at once. They have to release it to the manufacturers who then in turn need to implement it, test it, then deploy it to the devices. In contrast, Apple maintains full control of their OS; if there is an issue, Apple can release an iOS update to all devices. But you may wonder, “Can these same malicious applications make it to the Apple App Store?” Of course they can, but the chances are greatly reduced by Apple’s approval process. Furthermore, capabilities of any malicious applications that might appear on iOS have much less access to the device and your data than they do on Android OS. That is unless your device is jailbroken – then it’s effectively wide open.