The Long Haired Dude Talking Tech
In case you live in a tent and haven’t heard, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, has announced that he’s retiring in the next 12 months.
This is big news in the tech world and apparently Wall Street likes it. Microsoft shares were up 8% in pre-trading, after the press release, which can be read here:
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
It should be an interesting ride for Microsoft Employees and their customers. 🙂
For all you Art Bell fans out there, the announcement is finally official. Art returns to radio via Sirius/XM satellite radio.
You can read the AP story here or the official press release here.
From Art’s website:
“Launch Monday September 16th (if no anomalies)
LIVE Mon-Thur 7-10pm Pacific (10pm-1am Eastern)
Replayed All Night Until 3am Pacific, 6am Eastern
Replays Friday – Best of the Week, Weekends TBA
Channel Indie Talk Channel 104 (8 Hours/Day)”
WANNA TAKE A RIDE?
For those of you who are Art Bell fans, Art has announced his new Twitter account, via his Facebook page.
He also takes the opportunity to promote his soon to be relaunched ArtBell.com website.
If you have been enjoying the services of ‘FineArtStream.com’, to get your fix of classic Art Bell programs, you are going to be disappointed this morning.
Some time overnight, they went from having an error connecting to their stream, to the change to their landing page that is titled “Decommissioned” and has the simple banner that says, “The End”.
I have sent a request for comment, but have not received a reply as of this posting. Some of the possible reasons, might include some of the following:
If I receive any updates, I will post it here.
Update: This was posted on their Facebook page:
Update 2: They also posted the following, however, I am currently listening through this stream. Update 3: The previous stream seems to be the “U7 Radio” stream, even though it is marked as “FineArtStream.com”.
Here we are, just hours away from the WWDC Keynote. Nobody really knows what to expect, but Macrumors.com has a compilation of all the rumors surrounding what might be introduced.
John Gruber, on his podcast said that his sources told him that what Apple is announcing, would be, “polarizing”. No explanation of what that means, but it does raise the interest level around this keynote.
My initial gut reaction, with the “polarizing” word being used, would be that Apple might be about to announce new hardware (MacBooks, MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, iMacs) with the addition of a touchscreen. It’s kind of inevitable. Now that Cook is in charge and Jobs previous statement about why Macs would not have touch can be reversed without any internal Apple political ramifications. There is no more roadblock to the idea. Of course, this is only my opinion. I have no inside information either.
Well, whatever they announce, we will know in about 4 hours. I hope the announcements live up to the hype. We shall see…:-)
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