BUSINESS
July 11, 2002 | Reuters
Nokia said Japanese rival Matsushita will buy its software for smart phones that send e-mails, pictures and play games, boosting the world's largest handset maker's position in software. The deal is another victory for Nokia as it moves beyond handset manufacture into software design. In May it signed up Germany's Siemens to buy its mobile software. Matsushita Communication Industrial Co. (MCI), owner of the Panasonic brand, will use Nokia's Series 60 Platform software in its multimedia phones.
BUSINESS
June 12, 2013 | By Salvador Rodriguez
Apple this week unveiled the first major design overhaul for the iPhone operating system, and many were not impressed with the new look. Despite being led by Jony Ive, who has been Apple's hardware design chief since the 1990s, the new look found in iOS 7 has been criticized by many in the design community, and now a new Tumblr blog that pokes fun at the overhaul has hit the Web. Jony Ive Redesigns Things , the Tumblr blog, posts mockups made...
BUSINESS
October 31, 1991 | MICHAEL SCHRAGE
For now, you won't find any French deconstructionists working at the new IBM/Apple joint venture. Sony, Matsushita and NEC--who have collectively spent billions of yen exploring every facet of multimedia software design--have yet to hire a single phenomonologist. But just wait a year or two. Increasingly, the most exciting areas in software research--virtual reality, artificial life and artificial intelligence--are being shaped as much by metaphysics as by silicon physics.
BUSINESS
May 1, 2013 | By Chris O'Brien
Now that second-quarter earnings and Apple's massive bond offering are behind us, speculation has shifted back to products. And the big product that has tongues wagging is some reportedly radical changes to the operating system that powers the company's iPhones and iPads. Much of the drama surrounds the fact that Jonathan Ive, Apple's longtime hardware design guru, has also been placed in charge of software design as well. That happened last fall following a management shakeup. Ive is now s enior vice president of i ndustrial design.
BUSINESS
April 19, 1995 | EVAN RAMSTAD, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Take a look around. What keeps things going in your life? Trees and water. Some grains. Grease and gas. And a bunch of software. Without fanfare, software has become common not just in the machines we call computers but also cars, stereos, watches, even electric shavers. Used to create more productivity, software is great. But, increasingly, the inconvenience of a mistake or glitch in software causes more trouble than if software hadn't been there in the first place.
BUSINESS
July 26, 1990 | MICHAEL SCHRAGE
I knew that I would never be a prodigy after reading a childhood story about the great mathematician Karl Gauss. It seems that his teacher, wanting to buy some free time, told his charges to add up all the numbers from 1 to 100. All the obedient little German schoolchildren started scratching away on their slates. The young Gauss closed his eyes, thought for a brief moment and scribbled a number on his slate: 5,050.