Out of 20,000 potential matches on YouTube, out of 21 million potential video matches across the web, what does Google’s supposedly sophisticated Universal Search algorithm pick out to display as the top video content to be shown within the top search results?

A cartoon created by a company pitching its SEO software on YouTube as a way for Santorum to solve his Google problem. Wow.

Relevancy took Google to the top, Relevancy (or the lack of it) will take it down.

Now, an internal email from Apple CEO Tim Cook has leaked to 9to5 Mac, partially disputing the NYT report.

As a company and as individuals, we are defined by our values. Unfortunately some people are questioning Apple’s values today, and I’d like to address this with you directly. We care about every worker in our worldwide supply chain. Any accident is deeply troubling, and any issue with working conditions is cause for concern. Any suggestion that we don’t care is patently false and offensive to us. As you know better than anyone, accusations like these are contrary to our values. It’s not who we are. For the many hundreds of you who are based at our suppliers’ manufacturing sites around the world, or spend long stretches working there away from your families, I know you are as outraged by this as I am. For the people who aren’t as close to the supply chain, you have a right to know the facts.

Wonder how an internal mail from Secretive Apple leaks to clear up the image but such emails never leak detailing product releases.

“We knew there was an incident in 2006,” he told Threat Level. “But it was inconclusive at the time as to whether or not actual code was taken or that someone had actual code in their hands.”

Following the public claim of hackers earlier this month that they had source code for pcAnywhere, Norton Utilities and other products, Paden said the company went back through its logs and records and “put 2 and 2 together that there was a source code theft.”

Symantec waited for 7 long years and hackers to trash them publicly before investigating and putting "2 and 2" together and we all trusted them for securing us.

The government built its criminal case against Google using money, aliases and fake companies—tactics often used against drug cartels and other crime syndicates, according to interviews and court documents. Google agreed to pay a $500 million forfeiture last summer in a settlement to avoid prosecution for aiding illegal online pharmaceutical sales.

Google acknowledged in the settlement that it had improperly and knowingly assisted online pharmacy advertisers allegedly based in Canada to run advertisements for illicit pharmacy sales targeting U.S. customers.

And all this under Google management eyes and supposedly with their support. That's evil.

Over the course of a two-hour presentation on Manhattan's West Side today, JC Penney CEO Ron Johnson and President Michael Francis outlined a series of major changes across all aspects of the department store's pricing, promotion, presentation and products. Changes will be unveiled to consumers on Feb. 1.

That's a lot of "talk" without actual "walk" for an ex-Apple executive. So as soon as you leave Apple, you forget the Apple way of doing things.

asked if the phone market was now a two-horse race between iOS and Android, Cook said that "There's a horse in Redmond that always suits up and always runs, and will keep running.

Indeed there is a very fast, very pretty horse suited up and running in Redmond but the challenge is that this horse joined the mile rong race almost many lengths behind. So it won't win the shorter races, but will definitely show up in the podium in the long run. Just keep running and you will find this Redmond horse in the corner of your eye, keeping you honest and pushing you to give the best.

Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 first quarter which spanned 14 weeks and ended December 31, 2011. The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion and record quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion, or $13.87 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $26.74 billion and net quarterly profit of $6 billion, or $6.43 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 44.7 percent compared to 38.5 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 58 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

The Company sold 37.04 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 128 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 15.43 million iPads during the quarter, a 111 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 5.2 million Macs during the quarter, a 26 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 15.4 million iPods, a 21 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter.

Saving this for eternity - make that one year till Apple breaks this record next year same time.

With the Visual Studio Achievements Extension, achievements are unlocked based on your activity. Your code is analyzed on a background thread each time you compile.  In addition, the extension listens for certain events and actions that you may perform in Visual Studio, reporting progress on these events to the server.

Brilliant idea to engage developers and make them learn/use newer coding techniques.

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), the premier digital media company, today announced that Jerry Yang has resigned from its Board of Directors and all other positions with the company, effective today. In addition, Yang resigned from the Boards of Yahoo Japan Corporation and Alibaba Group Holding Limited, effective today.

In a letter to the Yahoo! Board Chairman Roy Bostock, Yang wrote:

"My time at Yahoo!, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life. However, the time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo! As I leave the company I co-founded nearly 17 years ago, I am enthusiastic about the appointment of Scott Thompson as Chief Executive Officer and his ability, along with the entire Yahoo! leadership team, to guide Yahoo! into an exciting and successful future."

Wonder how it feels to leave something which you started and sustained for 17 long years. Yang created an internet powerhouse and more than that a very powerful brand and the way he created and marketed it, Yahoo will always be a young company. Whenever I think of yahoo, I think of young internet savvy people connecting with each other. I hope this stays to end of an era only and not end of Yahoo.

The hours of video consumed globally on Xbox LIVE increased 140 percent from 2010 to 2011.

In December more than 60 percent of U.S. Xbox LIVE Gold members used entertainment apps on Xbox LIVE – for an average of an hour a day each.

The number of people using entertainment apps on Xbox LIVE increased by nearly 50 percent globally from November to December.

One big reason for this is the new Metro design based XBOX Dashboard which puts entertainment to the center.