A quick burst of 11 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team
Nice collection.
"Steve Jobs's resignation as chief executive officer of Apple is the end of an extraordinary era, not just for Apple, but for the global technology industry in general. Jobs is a historic business figure whose impact was deeply felt far beyond the company's Cupertino, Calif., headquarters, and who was widely emulated at other companies."
John Gruber: "Apple's products are replete with Apple-like features and details, embedded in Apple-like apps, running on Apple-like devices, which come packaged in Apple-like boxes, are promoted in Apple-like ads, and sold in Apple-like stores. The company is a fractal design. ... The same thought, care, and painstaking attention to detail that Steve Jobs brought to questions like "How should a computer work?", "How should a phone work?", "How should we buy music and apps in the digital age?" he also brought to the most important question: "How should a company that creates such things function?"
"Jobs's greatest creation isn't any Apple product. It is Apple itself."
"The public release of the source code for the infamous ZeuS Trojan earlier this year is spawning novel attack tools. And just as hybrid cars hold the promise of greater fuel efficiency, these nascent threats show the potential of the ZeuS source code leak for morphing ordinary, run-of-the-mill malware into far more efficient data-stealing machines."
"The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) receives thousands of financial documents every day detailing the ins and outs of various publicly traded companies and publishes them on its website. Financial reporters who trawl through these SEC filings can often land a scoop, but it's a tedious and time-consuming task. Now, MarketBrief, a new start-up based in Mountain View, California, promises to publish over 1000 stories per day thanks to its software journalists.
"It's easier than it sounds."
Philip K Dick must be laughing somewhere; he coined the "homeopapes", self-driven journalist robots, which would do the interviews by doorstepping people too.
"Apple's iPad will retain its dominance of the tablet market through at least 2013, research firm IHS iSuppli said today.
"El Segundo, Calif.-based iSuppli upped its iPad sales forecast for 2011 from an earlier estimate of 43.7m to 44.2m, citing Apple's ability to solve its supply issues and the blunders by rivals, including Hewlett-Packard.
"'Apple has resolved the iPad supply issues,' said Rhoda Alexander, senior manager of tablet and monitor research in an interview today. 'It was never a demand problem.'"
In the first two quarters of 2011 Apple sold about 12m iPads, so this would indicate a huge ramp in sales.
There's the feeling of an idealistic thread of thinking running up against Google's deep need to be able to mine personal data in this debate.
Nice animation by @codepo8. HTML5 is coming along.
Interesting take from the DefCon conference about how hacking has been forced to grow up - sort of - and the troubles around Anonymous.
Some so-called infographics actually obscure more than they inform.
Adi Kingsley-Hughes isn't enjoying. (We haven't upgraded from Snow Leopard yet, so can't comment.)
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