Google CEO Joins Apple Board of Directors
Aug 30In a press release, Apple announced that Dr. Eric Schmidt was named to Apple’s Board of Directors today. Dr. Schmidt has a long resume, including current positions as CEO of Google, as a member of the Google board of directors, and on the Princeton University board of trustees. He was formerly CEO of Novell and Chief Technology Officer at Sun Microsystems Inc. This brings to eight the...
Free Music from Universal
Aug 30From December Universal are launching a website offering there music catalogue for free download. The site will be called spiralfrog, and according to the companies CEO Robin Kent the site is “Offering young consumers an easy-to-use alternative to pirated music sites will be compelling.” The free music will be paid for by advertising on the site. News source: Spiralfrog Press...
Japan Reports Battery Fire in Mac
Aug 30On Tuesday, the Japanese government said that it knew of one case in Japan of a Sony made battery used in an Apple Computer notebook overheating and catching fire. The incident, resulting in a minor burn to the person’s finger, happened in April. The government said last week there had been two cases of Sony-made batteries used in Dell notebooks catching fire in Japan, but no one was...
eBay Chooses Google Advertising
Aug 29eBay has now sealed an ad deal with search engine leader Google. Under the agreement, as reported by Associated Press, Google will sell advertising on eBay sites outside the US, including click-to-call connecting buyers to sellers using both Google Talk telephone and messaging service and eBay’s own Skype service. Google will also have an exclusive rights to provide text advertising on eBay...
Logitech Gives PC Mice New Moves
Aug 27PC peripheral player Logitech has motorized the computer mouse scroll wheel with two new models that ease scanning and scrolling through large computer documents, spreadsheets, pictures, lists and other data. The Fremont, Calif.-based company said its new mice — the MX Revolution for desktop PCs and the VX Revolution for notebooks — would provide comfortable, efficient mouse control....