This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Interview: Karanbir Singh, CentOS project News: Mandriva and OpenSolaris updates, localising Linux Mint, NetBSD testing strategies Questions and answers: TRIM on solid state drives (SSD) Released last week: Peppermint OS One-06172010, wattOS R2, MoLinux 6.0 Site news: Package database update New distributions: OpenELEC.tv,…. Read more at source Related Reading:
Engadget
Interview: Chuck Pagano talks ESPN 3D, mobile streaming
During our time at ESPN’s headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut this past week, we were able to peek inside every nook and cranny of the company’s technological side. We discovered some pretty remarkable things about the culture and attitude toward innovation, and while the bulk of that discovery will be seen in a forthcoming Engadget Show [...]
Apple
WWDC 2010: Interview with Moodboard developer Chris Nurre
Filed under: iPad I believe we’ve mentioned Moodboard exactly once on the site before, as one of Brett’s picks back when the iPad first released. But it deserves another mention — developer Chris Nurre of A Tiny Tribe (a company founded with a friend to help pay for skeleton equipment and travel) stopped by to [...]
Apple
Full interview of Apple’s Steve Jobs at D8 now available
Before Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs takes the stage today in San Francisco, Calif., at the Worldwide Developers Conference, readers can watch his lengthy interview from last week’s D8 conference in its entirety. Read more at source Related Reading:
Mobile Devices
Steve Jobs says when it comes to the iPhone in the U.S., 2 carriers could be better than 1
In an interview with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, Steve Jobs said there might be advantages to having the iPhone on two U.S. carriers… Read more at source Related Reading:
Industry News
VIDEO: Steve Jobs At D8 Conference
Apple CEO Steve Jobs chatted earlier this evening at the D8 conference. Click here to see what you missed. Here’s the first few videos All Things D is providing. We expect the full interview to be posted eventually. Join the conversation about this story » Read more at source Related Reading:
Ars Technica
Feature: Interview: Nick Carr talks Google, Apple, and cloud clients
On May 11, Ars Technica and Wired hosted a Smart Salon on cloud computing. The event featured a Q&A with Ray Ozzie on Microsoft’s cloud strategy, a presentation by Nick Carr, opening remarks by Ars’s own Ken Fisher, and a panel on barriers to cloud adoption made up of myself, Ping Li of Accel Partners, [...]
Industry News
Carol Bartz Likes To Fire People In The Morning (YHOO)
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has an interview in Esquire’s women’s issue. In it, she drops a few revealing one-liners: “We’ll go through the whole interview, and I’ll say, “I have one last question. I don’t work with assholes. Are you one?” “I always do my firing in the morning because that’s when I’m fresh. I [...]
Slashdot
Flash Support Confirmed For Android 2.2
farble1670 writes “In an interview with the New York Times, Google’s Andy Rubin confirmed that Android 2.2 will have support for Flash 10.1. Quoting: ‘[Rubin] promised that full support for Adobe’s Flash standard was coming in the next version of Android, code-named Froyo, for frozen yogurt (previous Android releases were called Cupcake, Donut and Eclair, [...]
Mobile Devices
Google’s Andy Rubin says Full Flash support expected with Android 2.2 "Froyo"
In an interview with the New York Times, Google’s Andy Rubin offered some interesting expectations with the next major incarnation of Android… Read more at source Related Reading:
Mobile Devices
webOS to get mic, camera API, faster services, plenty more by fall
We’re fresh off the Palm Developer Day Keynote and a crazy-good interview – both with Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer of Palm. We’ll have a full write up of the interview on Monday, but we wanted to hit up the big developer news from this morning’s keynote for those who missed the liveblog. Though [...]
Linux
Stepping Down From FLOSSWeekly
Some time back I was asked on to FLOSSWeekly to do an interview about Ubuntu, Community, and Severed Fifth. The interview was fun and seemed to go well, so much so that they asked me to join them as a co-presenter on the show. I then joined the show on a mostly weekly basis, providing [...]
Industry News
Lou Dobbs Told Maria Bartiromo That Going To CNBC Would Be The Biggest Mistake Of Her Life
The most famous business journalist in the world – Maria Bartiromo – started her career as a production assistant at CNN. She was pulling the overnight shift for years before moving on to become a producer. Maria did every line production job in the place and then got “promoted” behind the scenes. And hated it. [...]
Mobile Devices
HTC looking to get into the mobile operating system market?
Bloomberg recently had a phone interview with Cheng Hui-ming, chief financial officer of HTC, where he revealed that the company might be contemplating… Read more at source Related Reading:
Mobile Devices
HTC looking into developing its own OS
While conducting an interview with Bloomberg, HTC CFO Cheng Hui-ming revealed that the Taiwan-based company is currently exploring the possibility of creating its own smartphone OS. Although readily stating that HTC has no plans to abandon support for Microsoft’s Windows Phone and Google’s Android, Cheng was not so willing to discuss rumors which would see [...]
Ars Technica
Palm CEO tries to make the case for Palm
When Jon Rubenstein agreed to join a fading Palm with the goal of outdoing his previous work on the iPhone at Apple, I’m sure he knew that he had a shot at the CEO role if his project succeeded. But I seriously doubt that he ever expected to give an interview like the one he [...]
Mobile Devices
Palm’s CEO reflects and would’ve wanted shorter exclusivity with Sprint
Palm’s CEO, Jon Rubinstein, recently sat down for an interview with Fortune where he let out some small snippets about what decisions he would’ve wanted… Read more at source Related Reading:
Mobile Devices
End of an era: “Get a Mac” ads rumored to be finished
Apple’s “Get a Mac” TV spots featuring Justin Long and John Hodgman may soon be a thing of the past if the suspicions of its two stars are correct. During an interview with AV Club, Long was asked about the future of the now iconic commercials that have been on the air since 2006. His [...]
Mobile Devices
Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein tells it like it is
In a must-read interview (for Palm fans, anyway) at CNN Money, Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein candidly laid out Palm’s current situation, the missteps of the past year and a half, and why he’s still bully on Palm’s chances to survive and even thrive as an independent company. Rubinstein speaks out about plenty of issues [...]
