One musical act is up to its usual shenanigans , now iPhone - enhanced ; the forefather of “ final disinterest ” is frightened of Apple ; and an ex-wife - Apple exec incur yet another new home . What ’s left after we skim the cream , that ’s the remainders for Monday , November 15 , 2010 .
Dance through your city(Range Rover Evoque )
In an odd collaborationism , musical innovators OK Go have team up with Range Rover to use the company’snew GPS - enabled appwhile dance through the street of Los Angeles . The track trace by the GPS will terminate up spelling “ OK Go , ” making this the sick matter the banding has done since theycreated a cease - motion video with pledge . Or usedtrained dogs to punctuate their music . Orcreated a giant Rube Goldberg machine . On 2d cerebration , this is pretty mild for them .
One on One : Tim Wu , author of ‘ The Master Switch’(The New York Times )
Columbia law prof Tim Wu , the guy cable who coined the term “ net disinterest , ” named Apple as the company that he fears the most , citing Steve Jobs ’s desire for “ too much control ” as antithetic to Google ’s “ open ” approach . To be fair , I guess Google CEO Eric Schmidt did n’t tell peoplewherethey had to move .
Former Apple , IBM administrator Papermaster joins Cisco(Bloomberg Businessweek )
commend Mark Papermaster , the executive who Apple almost went to war with IBM over , only to part ways with him less than a yr and a half later ? Do n’t cry for him , Argentina — he landed a gig at Cisco work on chips . If he ’s lucky , they ’ll still let him turn onthe iPhone .
AirPrint Hacktivator(Netputing )
If you were still a little worried aboutdelving into Terminal to turn on the missing AirPrint printing machine communion , someone ’s follow up with a simple GUI that takes care of all the hokery - pokery . Whoa , wait a 2nd : AirPrint ? MarkPapermaster?By Jove , I recollect I ’ve figured it out .
Names you want to know in 2011 : Apple ’s Scott Forstall(Forbes )
Forbes ’s Brian Caulfield epithet Apple senior vice president of iPhone Software Scott Forstall as someone to keep an oculus on . You recognise whose name you do n’t need to know ? Hint : it rhymes with Dark Caperplaster .
