A Reader notes, Steven Levy’s latest book, ‘In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works and Shapes Our Lives,’ lifts the lid on the secretive world of Google, revealing how the founders fell out with Apple’s Steve Jobs and what happened in the search engine’s exit from China. Levy claims that when Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were on the hunt for a chief executive they wanted Steve Jobs to take the job. Obviously, he didn’t, and later the (more…)

The Bad Astronomer writes “AT WWDC, Steve Jobs claimed that the iPhone 4′s display has about the same resolution as the human eye — held at one foot away, the iPhone 4′s pixels are too small to see. After reading an earlier Slashdot post about an expert disputing Jobs’ claim, I decided to run the numbers myself. I found that Jobs is correct for people with normal vision, and the expert was using numbers for theoretically perfect vision. So to (more…)

lbalbalba writes “Electronic Arts is shutting down its Westwood-based plot developer Pandemic Studios unprejudiced two years after acquiring it, putting scarcely 200 people manifest of het up b prepare. ‘The struggling video pretend publisher advised employees Tuesday morning that it was closing the studio as by of a recently announced devise to remove 1,500 jobs, or 16% of its wide-ranging workforce. Pandemic has fro 220 employees, but an EA spokesman (more…)