In a recent interview with the New York Times, Melinda Gates once again confirmed that Apple products are not allowed in home premises of Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates. Here is an excerpt from the full interview of all the Apple related answers.
Celebrating Windows 7’s one-year anniversary, Microsoft Netherlands spilled the beans on the expected launch date for Windows 7’s successor. In a blog post on its Dutch website, Microsoft said that Windows 8 is roughly two years away from hitting the market.
iGotYa is a new app available on Cydia which allows you to find out who was last trying to use your iPhone when you were away, or sleeping. Here is how it works.
Windows 7 has been a powerful success for Microsoft. As an evolutionary upgrade to Vista, it patched almost all of Vista’s glaring holes: broken driver support, sluggish performance and the horribly annoying User-Account Control. It sold more than 240 million licenses in one year and its next release will, according to Ballmer, be Microsoft’s riskiest product bet yet.
The current generation of smartphones - with their 1GHz processors and 512MB of RAM - are already very impressive at what they can do. But rumored specifications (along with a photo) are spreading of the next generation of Samsung’s Galaxy S smartphone - the Galaxy S2 - and its specs will. freaking. blow. your. head. off.
The next version of Android will be named Gingerbread. Though not officially announced, the name has been confirmed after a Gingerbread mascot officially turned up outside Google’s Mountain View Headquarters where it is placed right next to a statue of Android 2.2 “Froyo”.
The first third party app for Apple TV 2G, NitoTV is now available for download. It currently offers Weather and RSS functionality but the developers have promised more features in the next version.
The iPhone Dev Team has just released PwnageTool 4.1.1. This is more of a bug fix release which fixes issues for Mac OS X 10.5.x Leopard users.
This is our 2nd Obama-related post of the day, but hey: it’s not everyday you see the American president sign an iPad, right? Sylvester Cann (the dude holding the iPad) writes the following.
According to the sources at The New York Times, President of the United States Barack Obama flew to California today where he had a one-on-one meeting with Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs. Their meeting was later confirmed by Robert Gibbs, who is the press secretary at the White House.
