The Daily Roundup: here's what you might've missed
By Ross Miller 
posted June 29th 2009 10:26PM
posted June 29th 2009 10:26PM
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Steve Jobs back to work at Apple Of course, we'd been hearing of Steve's continual involvement in "key aspects" of Apple's business for a while now, so this seems like more of a rubber stamp on the status quo than a major change, |
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Acer poised to beat Dell, become number two PC maker That's a big deal -- no non-US company has ever made it so high -- and it's interesting that the strategies Acer took to get there are the same things Dell's been trying to do lately. |
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Windows Marketplace launching with 600 apps, or one bazillion times what the App Catalog has Depending on your perspective, that's either ridiculously anemic -- the iPhone's App Store has a couple orders of magnitude more currently available, for example -- or a veritable cornucopia. |
Other news of import
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Supreme Court declines to hear remote storage DVR appeal, cloud recording is on the way Of course, there's benefits to having a locally stored copy of I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, but just in case we forgot to queue up a recording, ... |
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Nokia, Apple, RIM and others agree on micro-USB phone charger standard for Europe While the free-market works pretty well when, uh, left alone to be free, sometimes it needs a push from a visible hand. |
