Last Friday, it was revealed that Facebook had fired its “Trending Editors” team, who looked after its trending news feed (kinda obvious from the name?), and had only recently been in the news under accusations of bias from the Conservatives in the US. It also comes fairly soon after Facebook rolled out its sections and […]
This is about to be the most overused meme on the Interweb After a big ole investigation, in which the European Union threatened to claim back from Apple their ‘owed’ taxes to the tune of billions, they went ahead and did it. Well, technically Ireland has been charged with recovering the bill as they allowed Apple the […]
On 10 August, Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi from Apple talked to Fast Company in a very interesting interview. I discuss some of the strategic timing of the interview here, but this article is a focus on the Maps part of the discussion, where the two talk about the underestimation, and cost, of doing Maps well. It’s a […]
The Apple bigwigs have been on a bit of an interview tear in the past week, building up the hype in the lead up to the iPhone launch on September 7. The interviews (Tim Cook with the Washington Post, and Eddy Cue/Craig Federighi with Fast Company) have taken an interesting approach, pushing the humanity of their leaders […]
UPDATE. Day 2 and the Census is showing no signs of coming back up. This morning the ABS declared that they’d been hit by four Denial of Service attacks, and after the most serious one decided to take the Census offline. This is not remarkable, but a day later they still have not come back online, […]
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