Sachin Agarwal is the founder and CEO of Posterous, but before he went off to become a startup guy, he worked at Apple. In his time there, he worked on Final Cut Pro for 6 years. He was just leaving Apple when it began the Final Cut Pro X project and hassome ideasabout why Apple created the controversial new version of their marquee video editing project. First of all, Agarwal echoes popular opinion with the assertion that Apple isn’t interested in the professional space, which is traditionally small and growth limited....

A former Apple manager pleaded guilty to multiple criminal counts after being accused of taking kickbacks from Asian suppliers. In aReutersreport, Paul Devine, Apple’s global supply manager from 2005-2010, was accused of using his position to pass confidential information to help suppliers negotiate favorable contracts with Apple. He pleaded guilty to wire fraud, conspiracy and money laundering in a San Jose federal court, the U.S. Attorney’s office announced. He also agreed to forfeit about $2....

Google has a tight grip over internet search and there’s not much to argue over there. Data fromStatcountersuggests that close to 90% of internet users in the US use the Big G, followed by Microsoft’s Bing at 5.43%. While Google’s dominance on the search market will seemingly continue for at least a few years, there have been questions overthe company’s privacy-relatedpractices. Now, two former Google execs,Sridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan, have launched a new search engine calledNeeva....

I’ve been anex.fmfanboy for quite some time now. While I’m addicted to music discovery services, there are very few that have been as widely-varied and beneficial to me as a listener as ex.fm has been. Whenthe site flippednames from Extension.FM and added more social features, I was pretty stoked. Today, with anew iPhone app, it’s even more exciting. It was possible, but not very convenient, to listen to ex.fm via your mobile device before now....

Auto-correction, or predictive text, is a common feature of many modern tech tools, from internet searches to messaging apps and word processors. Auto-correction can be a blessing, but when the algorithm makes mistakes it can change the message in dramatic and sometimes hilarious ways. Our research shows autocorrect errors, particularly in Excel spreadsheets, can also make a mess of gene names in genetic research. We surveyed more than 10,000 papers with Excel gene lists published between 2014 and 2020 and foundmore than 30%contained at least one gene name mangled by autocorrect....