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Google CEO Schmidt Leaves Apple Board 128

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 03, 2009 @10:17AM from the slightly-less-billions dept.

Jerod Venema writes "Today, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt resigned from Apple's board of directors, citing conflicts of interest. Apple has released a statement that the company and Schmidt reached a decision to split ties as Google enters new markets that directly compete with Apple's iPhone and Mac operating systems. Schmidt had recused himself of portions of Apple's board meetings when conflicts of interest or anything Google-related arose. But Steve Jobs said Schmidt would have to leave much larger portions of the meetings after Google announced last month that it would enter the operating system sphere."

Comment Re:Still mandatory where I work (Score 1) 481

by amoeba47 on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @08:04PM (#28698235) Attached to: YouTube Phasing Out Support For IE6

Just use the 'non-standards compliant' mode in IE8 and voila, your buggy IE6 code will render fine.

Comment Linux anyone? (Score 2, Insightful) 595

by amoeba47 on Sunday January 04, 2009 @09:19PM (#26324767) Attached to: UK Police To Step Up Hacking of Home PCs

enough said.

Comment Re:That's good and all, but... (Score 1) 214

by amoeba47 on Monday August 20, 2007 @07:54PM (#20298695) Attached to: Japanese Researchers Aim to Replace the Internet

Actually, it was the USA after WWII that forced Japan to implement censorship in their pornography.
Good old Christian values and all that.
And now, some time on, America has given up on that while Japan has stuck with the old laws from the 1940's.
As far as I'm aware, actual genitals must still be censored in the media in Japan.

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