We play a little game of "what happened to the Microsoft employee?" And everybody seems to want to know what Steve Jobs is thinking. Here are the remainders for Friday, May 21.
(ZDNet)
Microsoft's entertainment and devices "Chief Experience Officer" J Allard--he doesn't need a period after the initial, okay? He is summed up by --has been conspicuously absent of late, perhaps as a result of . As for where in the world he is, word is he's holed up with Carmen Sandiego as they contemplate a multi-nation crime spree that only will be able to uncover.
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The 's Eric Felten waxes philosophic on App Store's "no porn" policy, which counters what he calls "one of the most basic assumptions of modern technology--that the computer business is built on pornography." Incidentally, from an architectural standpoint, a business built on pornography is roughly as structurally unsound as .
(The Register)
Google announced its new open-source video codec, but not everybody thinks it's all it's made out to be. Witness Steve Jobs who, in a new level of terseness, reportedly replied to one e-mail petitioner with in comparison to the Apple-backed H.264 codec. Fortunately, I think we can all agree on one thing here: Adobe, you're totally hosed.
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