Tag: Resign
Steve Jobs steps down as Apple CEO
Steve Jobs has resigned from his role as Apple CEO, handing the position over to current COO Tim Cook. Jobs now takes the position of chairman of the board, following a lengthy period of leave due to health reasons. "I…
Phil Harrison, Sony's global head of game development, quits – PS3 disaster to blame?
Actually, we can’t blame Phil here for the disastrous PS3 hardware launch. That would be unfair.
As President of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, Phil was actually responsible for the disastrous lack of first-party Sony games. So blaming him for still having to play Resistance: Fall of Man is perfectly OK. It’s also his fault that Home is so massively delayed, and it’s no doubt also his problem that there were no Sony-published PS3 games in the Japanese top 50 charts last week – rather bad news for a company that loses money selling the hardware then apparently makes it all back on the games…
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 19-June-2007: Wi-Fi, Broadband, Yahoo, EA, Vodafone
– A Venezuelan tech-god puts the rest of us to shame by setting a new record for the longest Wi-Fi link, of 237 miles.
– John Howard, the embarassing Aussie Prime Minister has announced a US$1.68 billion initiative to bring broadband to 99% of the population by 2009. Now, to get at least 80% of the population to buy computers and actually start using electricity…
– Yahoo’s Terry Semel…
