The iPhone 4 antenna issue claimed another victim, and a big one! Apple’s Senior Vice President of iPhone Hardware Engineering Mark Papermaster isn’t on the payroll anymore. The NY Times article that broke the story doesn’t know if he was fired or if he resigned.
However, according to John Gruber, Papermaster did get fired over the antennagate:
From what I’ve heard, it’s clear he was canned. Papermaster was a conspicuous absence at the Antennagate press conference. Inside Apple, he’s “the guy responsible for the antenna” — that’s a quote from a source back on July 23. (Another quote from the same source: “Apparently the antenna guys used to have a big chip on their shoulder. No more.”)
I’m a bit confused here. According to Apple, there is no antenna problem with the iPhone 4, so why did Mark Papermaster got ousted? Sarcasm apart, someone had to take the heat for this.
written by pietro842
\\ tags: antenna, antenna issue, antennagate, Apple, broke-the-story, Iphone, papermaster, phone-download, president
Developer/Publisher: OrientMaple
Genre: Tower Defense
Price: $.99
Acquired: Promo code provided
Review Platform: iPhone 4 with iOS4
Verdict: Easy to play and understand with an interesting idea for a Tower defense game. Doesn’t deliver anything truly creative visually that holds your interest.
Pros: Interesting topic for a Tower Defense
Cons: Not enough visually to keep it interesting
The abstract appearance of the icon caught my eye. I thought it looked like a Chinese silkscreen, which I found interesting (It’s actually outlines of tiny bugs). Visually that’s about where the joy ends. You start setting up your defenses, in this case little human immunity cells on a honeycomb shaped board. These defenses shoot at the bacteria and virus that are coming to take away your protein in tiny chunks. Your goal is to stop them from reaching the protein and taking it back to the bacteria’s origin point. If you shoot the bacteria carrying the protein, it will be released and float back to the protein container. This becomes tricky because passing by bacteria can pick it up and continue to take it away. The game controls well and mechanics seem to work fine, as any other standard tower defense type game. It’s pretty easy to set your defenses up and the game gives you good feedback as to where items can be placed or not.
Continue reading Cell TD Review at The Portable Gamer
written by gunturbabu
\\ tags: chinese, Game, Iphone, placed-or-not, portable, portable-gamer, protein, tower
Mark Hurd is stepping down from HP after a sexual harassment claim has been made. He resigned and the HP committee is searching for a replacement. Cathie Lesjak, HP’s CFO will be the interim CEO. Hurd is getting a $12.2 million separation package upon his departure. HP board member Marc Andreessen will help the company find the next CEO. [ZDNet]
written by j4352
\\ tags: 12-2-million, board-member, cathie-lesjak, departure, hewlett packard, interim, lesjak, mark hurd, sexual-harassment, stepping-down, the-interim, will-help
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has acquired social application company Slide. This further indicates Google’s plan to create a social networking ecosystem to challenge Facebook. No word on the acquisition price, but there is speculation that the deal was worth $228 million plus $46 million in retention bonuses. Google’s future social initiative has the codename Google Me. Slide is known for the SuperPoke and Top Friends applications on Facebook. [eWeek]
written by husain
\\ tags: acquisition, codename, deal, friends, future-social, social-networking, the-acquisition, the-codename
Gameloft has two new games on sale for the iPad during the weekend.
These titles are Dungeon Hunter HD, a fantasy game with sword and slashing action. The other is Gangstar: West Coast Hustle, a Grand Theft Auto clone.
Dungeon Hunter HD is regularly priced at $6.99 and Gangstar: West Coast Hustle is $4.99, but it sells for $0.99 this weekend. I don’t know the cutoff date for this, so you might want to get into this.
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written by tanloc2t
\\ tags: gangstar, ipad, Iphone, mobile gaming
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