1. Amid iPhone 4 antenna controversy, Papermaster out as head of device hardware (TechCrunch)
In November 2008, Tony Fadell, Apple’s senior vice president of the company’s iPod and iPhone divisions, stepped down due to "personal reasons." Apple wasted little time finding a solid replacement: Mark Papermaster. But now, not even two years later, Papermaster is out as well.
2. Whatever the numbers, cloud growth is skyrocketing (GigaOm)
A UBS research report sparked a lot of discussion with its estimate that Amazon Web Services’ total revenue will top $500 million this year and $1.1 billion by 2014. Analyzing the numbers is fine, but Derrick Harris thinks it’s most telling to look at the growth curve when assessing the promise of cloud computing.
3. The movement to "Save Google Wave" (ReadWriteWeb)
Alex Williams looks at "Save Google Wave," a web site dedicated to keeping Google Wave from being shuttered. The site provides different ways for people to express their support for Google Wave. Nearly 20,000 people have given a "thumbs up," for saving the service. The Twitter account has 360 followers. More than 250 people have retweeted the site and 70 have given it a Digg.
4. iPhone worship has seen the media lose all sense of proportion (The Guardian)
Religious fervour surrounds the latest phone technology, despite it only representing a small slice of the world market, says John Naughton.
5. Has Google jumped the shark? (The Telegraph)
When a big software company starts investing in social, that’s when you know they’re in trouble. So when Milo Yiannopoulos saw the rumours that Google had bought Slide at an eyebrow-raising valuation of $182 million – after previously investing over $100 million in social gaming company Zynga – it got him thinking: has Google jumped the shark?
