Apple University

I once read that companies could run without a country because they are a country by themselves.

Is Apple depending on Public Education? here

Computer circuit built from brain cells

"For all its sophistication and power, your brain is built from unreliable components – one neuron can successfully provoke a signal in another only 40% of the time." here

Symbian Foundation!

Lee Williams nominated as Executive Director for the Symbian Foundation

Industry veteran to lead the foundation that will drive the future of the leading open mobile platform for smartphones

London, United Kingdom - The ten initial board members of the Symbian Foundation (AT&T, LG Electronics, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, Samsung Electronics, Sony Ericsson, ST-NXP Wireless, Texas Instruments and Vodafone) today announced the nomination of Lee Williams as the Executive Director for the planned foundation. Lee is currently head of the S60 organization in Nokia's Devices business.

"We are delighted to have such a strong and experienced leader to head the Symbian Foundation" said Kris Rinne, senior vice president, architecture and planning, AT&T on behalf of the initial board members. "Lee Williams is well known in our industry and has been a driving force in the establishment of the foundation. Following an extensive, independent selection process, we believe that he is the best candidate to lead the foundation. He will now work to ensure we get the most complete and competitive Symbian Foundation platform offering and setup the operations needed to drive the platform to its next phase of evolution as quickly as possible."

"I feel honored to have been invited to serve in this role", said Lee Williams. "This is a great opportunity to directly help deliver on the promise of the foundation, working with the stakeholders and prospective members who are so committed to make this initiative a success. To me, there can be no more exciting role in the mobile software world than to lead the Symbian Foundation."

Boombs in the laudromat?

"In recent years, as it has tried to improve its performance in Iraq, the U.S. military has done a lot of remedial studies of earlier counterinsurgency campaigns. This note, passed along by a Special Operations officer, describes a couple of tricks the British learned battling the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland" more here

Where is the money coming from?

Productivity 2.0

"For years, books and articles and blogs on productivity have been showing us how to be more productive: crank out the tasks, multi-task, work faster, be organized." more here

Funny...

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4th screen?

"He (Olli, the ultimate boss) singled out the positive impact that Apple has made on the industry with its iPhone over the past year, saying the Cupertino, California computer and consumer electronics company had done the mobile phone industry 'a big favor.''We have a new, credible competitor in this business. You know I need to take my hat off,' he said of how the iPhone has raised expectations for phones. He added: 'Of course we need to be able to respond to any competitor and we will.'"

"Thinking back to nearly a year ago to when Google introduced its rival mobile Internet software system, Android, Kallasvuo said Nokia had been working toward similar goals for a far longer time. 'I realized that we could have made the same announcement 10 years ago,' he said."
from here