Now, according to a Yahoo executive involved in hiring, Mayer is actually doing it.She literally looks at every serious candidate’s resume.
Much respect to Marissa Mayer. She wants the talent she feels will improve the company and she’s making sure she gets it.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a denial of responsibility regarding the leak of more than 1,000,000 iOS UDID numbers last night.
Fender updated it’s line of Machete guitar amps today with a 50 Watt Head, a Combo and two cabinets.
PCWorld:
Is it time to give Java the boot? Experts say yes.Java, the programming language designed to make the web fun and interactive, has become one of the weakest links in a PC’s and Mac’s defenses against external threats.The risks don’t outweigh the rewards, security experts say. “I’d say 90 percent of users don’t need Java anymore,” says Dominique Karg, the founder and chief hacking officer of AlienVault, a security software company. “I consider myself a ‘power user’ and the last and only time I realized I had Java installed on my Mac was when I had to update it.”
When was the last time you used Java on your Mac?
Savant is a Cape Cod, Massachusetts-based maker of home automation systems that strongly feature Apple hardware and software.
Check out our live coverage of the event. Apple on Tuesday sent out invites for an upcoming event happening in San Francisco on September 12, 2012. The invitation I received says the event will take place at the Yerba Buena … Continued
Arnold Kim:
Hacker group Antisec has released a dump of 1 million unique identifiers (UDIDs) from Apple iOS devices tonight. The records reportedly came from a file found on an FBI laptop back in March.
Another great looking product from Apogee.
Ross Miller from The Verge talking about the final version of Windows RT on a Samsung tablet. The video is funny. Microsoft is screwed.
One of the most famous gangsters of all time.
Are you a guy worried about losing your hair? Get over it, ya pussy.
A distinctively different kind of weather app for iPad and iPhone with stunning Retina-quality visuals and a refreshingly fun and touch centric UI.
Weather 2x is the perfect balance of aesthetics, intuitive functionality and the right amount of detail.
Check out the latest version with great new features including iCloud sync, Twitter & E-mail sharing, local weather detection, and images of Jim’s igloo for when it reaches those sub-zero temperatures.
I’ve been using Weather 2x since it first came out and love it.
After using his Nexus 7, David Chartier wonders why the 7-inch product category even exists.
An incredible story that our own Peter Cohen has been living.
My only question is how he didn’t drink the beer. […]
Time and OpenSignalMaps have rounded up the ten worst cities in the country for cell phone reception.
Walmart is experimenting with an iPhone scan-and-pay system for its self-serve kiosks.
Movie star Bruce Willis may sue Apple over the legal language of the iTunes Store terms of service, so he can will his music to his kids.
An Indian blogger says Samsung threatened to leave him high and dry after he refused to be their booth bunny at the IFA trade show in Germany.
HTML5 Boilerplate helps you build fast, robust, and adaptable web apps or sites.
Atari’s Greatest Hits is free through the end of the day (Saturday, September 1st). Grab it now and save yourself $10 for 99 classic arcade and console games!
Don’t make it too obvious.
Apple on Friday filed an amended complaint with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, adding two versions each of the Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note to its original claims of patent infringement against a number of Samsung smartphones and tablets.
This is a different complaint than the lawsuit Apple just won.
Nick Barber writing at Macworld:
Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Camera, introduced at this week’s IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, takes clear, colorful images but is buggy and slow.
App Cubby developer David Barnard posted an interesting piece on pricing apps.
It’s important to realize that with this build you can’t add or reauthorize any accounts. If you delete an account or de-authorize an existing account you will not be able to add it again until the final version comes out.
Amazing that these developers are still trying to improve their apps and Twitter can’t release an update for their piece of shit app.
Thanks Twitter.
But at some local restaurants, the hospitality appears to be wearing thin. At least two eateries admit they allow servers to add an automatic gratuity on the bills of diners who appear to be Québecois. Why? Because Canadians are presumed to be bad tippers. A few local servers even have a nickname for the surcharge: They call it the “Queeb tax.”
It’s not just Vermont. Quebecers are notoriously bad tippers, even in Canada. Slap the tax on them.
City of Heroes and its development studio, Paragon Studios, are shutting down.
Freeverse, one of Mac gaming’s stalwart indie supporters and early iOS game pioneers, has had a significant layoff, according to reports – coming on the heels of their cofounders’ departure.
There’s a question for you.