Anith Gopal

Steve Jobs, Jon Rubinstein, Ed Colligan According to Bloomberg , former Palm CEO Ed Colligan rejected an offer by Steve Jobs to refrain from hiring each other’s employees. Similar allegations have been made regarding Apple and Google recently, though in that instance the policy was supposedly an informal and undocumented one, but with Palm there are “communications” involved. “We must do whatever we can to stop this,” said Steve Jobs on the issue of “poaching” employees, the practice of hiring away highly-capable individuals from one company to another.

Once again, it’s that special time of the week when we all join hands, take a deep breath and exhale as we take a spiritual journey through the latest app picks for iPhone.

It appeared to be just another innocuous third-decimal-point minor update, but today’s release of iTunes 8.2.1 carried more than the usual “bug fixes and stability improvements.” (Those are still there, too.) For owners of the recently introduced Palm Pre unfortunate enough to have already downloaded and installed the update, it also ends the iTunes playlist syncing party. It was inevitable , since Apple clearly regards iTunes syncing as the exclusive, sacred territory of its own devices, but it probably still has a few Pre owners trying to turn back the clock

Harry McCracken at Technologizer wrote a nice piece about the virtues of hardware keyboards on smartphones. I think one reason a keyboard argument even exists is because when competing in a given market, you have to tag a competitor’s hot product with a “missing feature,” and then provide that feature. (How many manufacturers claimed FM radio and replaceable batteries were glaring omissions from the iPod, only to find adding it to their devices made no difference?) I think the Palm Pre — mentioned in the article — has a hardware keyboard partially to trumpet having something the iPhone lacks (and partially because it’s easier to implement than a software one).

Former Apple VP Jon Rubinstein will be shifting from his role as chairman at Palm to the company’s new CEO.

One of the nicest things about having an iPod or iPhone is the easy syncing with iTunes, especially for Mac users. In fact, it’s such a perk, that users are constantly looking for ways to get their BlackBerry and other devices to sync as well

I wanted to share some of the news coverage that we’ve seen this week following Rob Bernard’s visit to San Francisco for the Green:Net 09 conference.

With trademark confidence, Kevin Rose was pretty vocal about what we could expect to see from the new iPhone 3.0 software this Tuesday, and he claims to have it on good authority from a source who’s “been right before.” The basic purpose of the update, according to Rose, is to anticipate and match features that the Palm Pre is advertising that the iPhone does not yet have. Chief among these features is that mythical beast of iPhone legend, copy and paste

Overnight the Product team in the US have updated developer.windowsmobile.com , so if you already do, or are interested in developing for the Windows Mobile platform head over and get the latest info on developing and distributing applications for Windows Mobile. If you’ve been tracking the WM news this year you will know that Microsoft, at Mobile World Congress, announced Windows® Marketplace for Mobile – and developer.windowsmobile.com will be the place to keep across news about MarketPlace for Mobile.

  Pessoal,  Lançamos mais materiais de treinamento técnico sobre os Serviços Live (Live Services), dentro do Live Services Jumpstart , site do evento virtual. O material técnico disponibilizado tem nível 300-400, com sessões técnicas em vídeo, laboratórios (hands-on labs) e uma sessão de perguntas e respostas (Q&A)

Se você já está utilizando a plataforma de serviços Azure no dia a dia, ou está interessado um ingressar nessa plataforma, a Microsoft lançou uma atualização do Kit de Treinamento da Plataforma Azure (Fevereiro 2009). Está ai uma ótima oportunidade para se aprofundar mais no assunto ou começar a explorar essa mais nova tecnologia da Microsoft

Dreamspark Software now Available to Several NZ Institutes As of today any student that attends the following institutes: University of Waikato WINTEC MIT AUT You can now use your student email to verify yourself at http://www.dreamspark.co.nz  and start downloading Microsoft Developer and Designer Software for FREE. You can also join our community site and post up questions about the software at http://www.dreamspark.co.nz/community