Apple's CEO could be highest paid executive

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Textbooks becoming history, dust, vapor... Are hardbound textbooks going the way of slide rules and typewriters in schools? Education Secretary Arne Duncan challenged schools and companies to get digital textbooks in students' hands within five years. The Obama administration's push comes two weeks after Apple Inc. announced it wou... - Posted on February 1, 2012
Do you agree with Facebook's founder's 5 values? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined five core values for Facebook in a letter to people who may want to buy stock in the company: 1. Focus on Impact If we want to have the biggest impact, the best way to do this is to make sure we always focus on solving the most importa... - Posted on February 1, 2012
Jobs preferred vinyl to iPod. What about you? Legendary rocker Neil Young has taken his campaign for higher-fidelity digital sound to the stage of a technology conference. He says a giant of technology was on his side: the late Steve Jobs. Young says the Apple co-founder was such a fan of music that he didn't use his iPod and its digi... - Posted on January 31, 2012
Obama to "hangout" on Google Plus President Barack Obama plans to "hang out" in a video chat room to answer questions about his State of the Union address, part of a White House effort to test new social networking tools and the latest evidence of the growing intersection of social media and politics. Google announced Mond... - Posted on January 23, 2012
Apple says textbooks are out, iPads are in Apple wants to make the iPad a replacement for a backpack full of textbooks by starting to sell electronic versions of a handful of standard high-school books. The electronic textbooks, which include "Biology" and "Environmental Science" from Pearson and "Algebra 1" and "Chemistry" from Mc... - Posted on January 19, 2012
Could you live without the Internet? If a day without Wikipedia was a bother, think bigger. In this plugged-in world, we would barely be able to cope if the entire Internet went down in a city, state or country for a day or a week. Sure, we'd survive. People have done it. Countries have, as Egypt did last year during the anti... - Posted on January 19, 2012
Wikipedia may shut down on Wednesday Wikipedia may black out its website Wednesday to protest anti-piracy legislation under consideration in Congress. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced on Twitter Monday that the popular community-based online encyclopedia will shut down its English versions for 24 hours in protest. User... - Posted on January 16, 2012
Chinese egg Apple over iPhone 4S Angry customers and gangs of scalpers threw eggs at Apple Inc.'s flagship Beijing store Friday after its opening for the China launch of the iPhone 4S was canceled due to concerns over the size of the crowd. Apple reacted to the scuffle by postponing iPhone 4S sales in its mainland China s... - Posted on January 15, 2012
Why isn't there an app for that? It's the dreaded sound at any live performance — a ringing cellphone. That's what happened Tuesday night at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall toward the end of Gustav Mahler's Ninth Symphony by the New York Philharmonic. Conductor Alan Gilbert stopped the orchestra until the phon... - Posted on January 12, 2012
Apple's CEO could be highest paid executive Tim Cook could well end up being the highest paid CEO in America in 2011. In comparison, Jobs accepted a $1 annual salary for years.. Cook's award is well above that given to Philippe Dauman, the Viacom Inc. chief executive who led the top paid CEOs of 2010 with an $84.5 million haul based... - Posted on January 10, 2012