Apple University revealed. (Brian X. Chen/NYTimes)
Apple’s in-house training program sounds very, very Apple-esque.
TechReads
July 17, 2014
Microsoft to reorg, cut up to 18,000 jobs. (Satya Nadella/Microsoft)
July 16, 2014
Why that Comcast rep wouldn’t let Ryan and Veronica just cancel. (Adrianne Jeffries/The Verge)
Because doing so would cost him money.
Fox tried to buy Time Warner. (Andrew Ross Sorkin/Michael De La Merced/NYTimes)
Anyone who wants to buy Time Warner should read the original AOL Time Warner press release, which I annotated in 2009.
Apple-IBM deal is bad news for BlackBerry. (Ingrid Lundgren/TechCrunch)
Just what BlackBerry needed: more bad news.
Here are the sites Google is hiding under EU “Right to be Forgotten” law. (Jeff John Roberts/GigaOm)
Gone from the Google index, but not forgotten.
July 14, 2014
The password is dying. (Christopher Mims/WSJ)
And to prove it, Mims shares his own Twitter password (which is christophermims).
Bringing back Prodigy. (Benj Edwards/The Atlantic)
One man wants to breathe new life into a very defunct online service.
Should Yahoo and AOL merge? Will They? (Kara Swisher/Re/code)
Maybe! Maybe not!
Does anyone want a smartwatch? (Kevin Roose/New York)
Still the most important question about the whole category.
Germany considers regulating Google like a utility. (Ingrid Lundgren/TechCrunch)
Um, fabulous idea.
Samsung figures out its smartphone future. (Brian X. Chen/NYTimes)
Squeezed by China on the low end, Apple on the high end.
Sapphire screens: both neat and impractical? (Brad Molen/Engadget)
The multiple challenges of a technology Apple is supposedly about to embrace.