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Submission + - Internet Explorer TV ad Launched (neowin.net)

Submitted by butilikethecookie
butilikethecookie writes: Microsoft is getting ready to promote Internet Explorer in a big way with a new television commercial that is scheduled to make its debut sometime tonight. The official IE blog site has more information on the ad, as well as the commercial itself, which makes use of the song "Too Close" by UK-based singer Alex Clare.

The commercial was directed by Keith Rivers, who has created a number of videos and ads for Microsoft in the past, according to his personal web site. The new Internet Explorer commercial showcases a number of graphically rich HTML5 web sites and experiences, including the free version of the game Cut the Rope which Microsoft launched for IE 9 in January.
Science

Submission + - W Boson mass found, leads way to Higgs Boson (sciencedaily.com)

Submitted by SchrodingerZ
SchrodingerZ writes: Scientists have deduced the “world's most precise measurement of the mass of the W Boson,one of nature's elementary particles, has been achieved by scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.” This new number (80375 +-23 MeV/c2 by the way) puts more constraint on the mass of the theorized http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/cern/ideas/higgs.html"> Higgs Boson Particle ,which is theorized to give mass to all other things, completing the http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/Science/StandardModel-en.html"> standard model .“Scientists employ two techniques to find the hiding place of the Higgs particle: the direct production of Higgs particles and precision measurements of other particles and forces that could be influenced by the existence of a Higgs particle.”
Apple

Submission + - Apple claims to have created over 500,000 US jobs (neowin.net)

Submitted by butilikethecookie
butilikethecookie writes: There's been a lot of criticism of Apple in the past several weeks about how the company seems to tolerate poor working conditions at the third party factories where devices like the iPhone and iPad are made. Apple has since announced that it is working to hold special audits at those plants to help change and improve the workers' life at those plants. However, those plants are located in overseas locations, mainly in Asia, and some have asked that Apple make more of their products in its home country of the US.

Now, in perhaps in an attempt to do more spin control, Apple has posted up a new page on its official web site that claims the company has been directly or indirectly responsible for creating 514,000 jobs in the US. It cites one study by Analysis Group that claims the company has 47,000 employees in the US. That same study also claims Apple is responsible for creating 257,000 jobs at third party companies, including those that make Apple-based device components, transportation workers, sales jobs and other positions.

In addition, Apple claims that 210,000 jobs have been made in the US as part of the iOS app economy that began with the launch of the iPhone in 2007. Apple adds that it has generated over $4 billion in in royalties to App Store developers (although its likely that some of that money went to developers working outside the US). Apple also claims that the job search web site indeed.com now lists over 5,000 iOS app developer jobs openings.

Comment ummmm......No shit, bro (Score 0) 222

by butilikethecookie (#39242475) Attached to: Have We Lost Our Privacy To the Internet?
ummmm......No shit, bro. I was thinking this in 2005. Mark my words: The next big outcry will be apple remotely recording you on your facetime and back camera. What a good time to apply duck tape over my ipod and tell my girlfriend to stop wearing low shirts. (aww...) Who the f*ck even uses facetime? They need to make a Windows client version of it.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Previews Office 15 (neowin.net)

Submitted by butilikethecookie
butilikethecookie writes: Microsoft is on a bit of a roll today, after revealing their Windows-on-ARM plans to the world, telling the public that each ARM device will come with a copy of office and showing off even more of Windows 8. Right now, there are only subtle differences to the interface compared with Office 2010. The ribbon is still there, albeit minimized, however large amounts of colorization has been changed and the application no longer has buttons on the top right to close it. This is probably restricted to just ARM right now.
Google

Submission + - Google redesigns navigation bar (neowin.net)

Submitted by butilikethecookie
butilikethecookie writes: It's a big deal when Google adds more content to their homepage, and it looks like Google+ has been freed from the navigation bar and now floats on your homepage to give you a quick way to check notifications and share new content. This seems like it's to make it even more obvious to the user that the service is there.

I don't know about you, but I don't care about Google+, and Gmail is definitely the Google service that is most important to me. It seems strange that the company would demote it so far down the bar like this, when it's always been very close to the front. Only some users are seeing the changes, but it appears to be rolling out worldwide.

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