Microsoft may be fall back two of its shining stars but not everything is looking bleak : the European Parliament is all getting new iPads ! And the New York Mets ruff their crosstown contender a second sentence this calendar week . It ’s all in the remainders for May 25 , 2010 .
Bach , Allard will Microsoft in big shift for consumer business(TechFlash )
Microsoft executive J Allard has been found ! But with that finding comes the news that both he and Robbie Bach , head of the fellowship ’s entertainment and gadget divison , will be leaving Redmond . Instead of replacing Bach , the heads of the Xbox / gaming and Windows Phone departments will be reporting directly to CEO Steve Ballmer . Rumor is Ballmer already has a compendious seventeen - watchword design to jump-start the troubled division . Unfortunately , it ’s really justone word repeated seventeen times .
confirm : Apple ’s next iPhone will have video chat , have to be shown in ad organize by Sam Mendes(Engadget )
Thank heavens for Twitter , without which we would have no idea that Academy Award - winner Sam Mendes ( American Beauty , Road to Perdition ) is reputedly channelise the commercial message for the raw iPhone mannequin , which may show the bruit unexampled video - chat feature of speech . Also thanks to the magic of Twitter , we can ascertain on the dot which rat - mouthed actors wo n’t be get callbacks .
Europe in crisis , lawmakers get new iPads(CNBC )
Despite their continent toddle on the brink of financial disaster , all 736 members of European Parliament will be get brand new iPads this week , prompting literary criticism of the unnecessary spending . Look , this is leisurely to deposit : instead of render all the members of parliament new iPads , replacethem all with new iPads . Done .
AT&T rag T - Mobile for ‘ misleading ’ 4 G marketing on HSPA+(FierceWireless )
T - Mobile has dubbed its new HSPA+ connection a “ 4 G ” applied science , which has competitor AT&T up in arms . AT&T ’s already been undulate out the same wireless touchstone , but refers to it under the “ 3 G ” umbrella . While they ’re squabbling over that , I ’ll be look for investors for my recently - perfected 379 G wireless networking technology . ( Disclaimer : May be indistinguishable from two atomic number 50 keister tied together with string . )
Mets welcome Yankee fans and their iPads(App Advice )
Not only did the 22 - and-23 New York Mets take two out of three from the 26 - and-18 Bronx bombers this preceding weekend , but , unlike their rival , the team from Queens will actually set aside fans to bring iPads to the approximate range and darn it , I put the punchline up at the offset of the time .
