By Greg Mills
The poor performance of Microsoft in the last 10 years has fundamental issues that will hobble the company for years to come. A stock hedge company has issued a paper demanding Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s head on a pike.
Since Mr. Ballmer took over from Bill Gates in 2000, Microsoft’s market cap has been cut in half. Once the most valuable tech company in the world, Apple passed Microsoft last year.
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Pioneer Electronics (USA) has rolled out AppRadio. Drawing upon Pioneer’s technology integration expertise and following its “Rethinking Connectivity” strategy, it’s purportedly the first in-vehicle product designed to utilize the processing power, storage capacity, network connectivity and apps of the iPhone and iPod touch (fourth generation) as the primary source for its information and entertainment capabilities.
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Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).
ResMed has announced the ResMed Sleep Assessment app, a free application for the iPhone that lets users record themselves during sleep. It also includes a clinically validated questionnaire that assesses their risk and other helpful features to empower users to discuss their sleep health with their physician.
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DEVONtechnologies (http://www.devon-technologies.com) has released DEVONAgent Express on the Mac App Store. It requires Mac OS X 10.6.6 and costs US$$4.99.
DEVONagent Express, the latest Mac product from DEVONtechnologies, makes the search technology behind DEVONagent available from any app on the Mac and is easy-to-use, says Eric Böhnisch-Volkmann, president of DEVONtechnologies. Just like Spotlight searches the computer DEVONagent Express searches the web and presents the results directly in its menu.
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Apple has reached agreements with three major record labels — including Sony, it seems — to let users of its new music service access their song collections from handheld devices via the Internet, reports “Bloomberg” (http://macte.ch/bRzEX), quoting “people with knowledge.”
The new iTunes offering will let users store content on Apple’s servers and access it using the Web, rather than loading songs into a device’s memory, said the people. The plans could be previewed as early as Apple’s developers conference, set to begin June 6, reports “Bloomberg.”
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