Publication BGR reports that the vice president of consumer and business services, Samsung, Kim Gavin (Gavin Kim) left the company to join Microsoft as chief executive teams Windows Phone. He will have a direct impact on the development of Windows Phone.

“I shall be responsible for assistance in choosing the future direction of the platform and Windows Phone for acceleration of Microsoft to win the hearts and minds of consumers, mobile operators, manufacturers of smartphones, developers and partners – said Mr. Kim. – In my experience, there is a community of fans already Windows Phone, and they have already purchased vehicles. They are active and have very loud talk about the platform … so my new job will be a reflection of their ideas in our product and marketing partnership with all our partners to create a wider range of supporters Windows Phone ».

In the recently published an interview with The New York Times author of the latest biography of Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs), Mr. Walter Isaacson (Walter Isaacson) said that in the eyes of the former head of Apple the main problem of modern TV sets are “sophisticated means of remote control.” Steve Jobs believed that “no reason” to TV sets were so difficult to use. According to Walter Isaacson, Jobs “beat” these problems.

But television was not the only area to which the conversion of Steve Jobs took a special interest. Biographer notes that an innovator willing to bring change to the sphere of books and photographs. Walter Isaacson said that he decided in his book did not provide details about upcoming products Apple, in particular how they can be linked with those of Steve Jobs in TV, books and photographs. The author notes that considered unfair to the companies to disclose these details publicly.

According to Qualcomm, and Tablet PCs running the upcoming operating system Windows 8 from Microsoft, will be more like smartphones overall than traditional desktop computers. “The idea of ​​instant power, constant work, constant updates and a permanent connection to the network – this idea is the basis for a smartphone, and we see it increasingly in the computer industry” – said Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs (Paul Jacobs) during a recent meeting with financial analysts in New York.

Qualcomm Snapdragon mobile chips are already on the basis of the mass of the device based on Android and Windows Phone, but Mr. Jacobs is sure that they are also perfect for a new type of notebook that will take advantage of new features in Windows 8, originating in smartphones.

ATIC (Advanced Technology Investment Company), the principal owner of the contract chipmaker Globalfoundries, announced that it will not begin construction of a new megafabriki in Abu Dhabi. The company blames the delay uncertain global economic outlook at the present time. However, the strong issues with the main partner in the face of AMD, as well as the inevitable transition to 450mm wafers can play a more important role in this decision.

“We do not intend to start construction in charge of Abu Dhabi in 2012. Given the fact that the global economic backdrop remains very volatile, we decided at the board level that will not build a new factory at the present time, but instead we have to evaluate what happens in our development strategy until the end of 2012 ” – said chief executive Ibrahim Ajami ATIC (Ibrahim Ajami) in an interview with The National.

Google on Tuesday launched version 1.5.0 of its App Engine cloud platform, which features capabilities for high-memory processes and an experimental runtime for the open source statically typed Go programming language. The company expects to “graduate” App Engine from a preview status in the second half of 2011.

With version 1.5.0, long-running, high-memory processes are supported by a Backends capability that works with both the Java and Python languages. “This feature allows for new classes of applications, such as report generation apps and custom search engines, to be hosted on the platform,” Greg D’Alesandre, senior product manager for Google App Engine, said in a blog post.

Even though Verizon Wireless claims its fast LTE network is “up and running” following an April 26 outage, it’s still not working for some customers, including 50 Chicago-based users of laptops with LTE modems.

A Chicago-based IT manager who asked not to be named, said via email that she had upgraded 50 laptop Verizon 3G modems to Pantech 4G LTE modems before the outage, but they “constantly drop [LTE] because Verizon still has not fixed their switching issues between 4G and 3G.”

The IT manager, who works for an advertising firm, said she was surprised when Verizon’s own technicians suggested she hack the Pantech modems so they “don’t use 4G at all” to resolve the problem.

Google kicked off its annual Google I/O developers conference by giving people what they’ve been speculating about for months — an online music service.

During a keynote presentation on the first day of the conference, Google took the wraps off Music Beta by Google, a service that will enable people to store their music in the cloud and then stream it to all kinds of devices — tablets, smartphones or PCs.

The company noted that during the beta, the service will be free; the eventual price tag was not disclosed. All of the Google I/O attendees were invited to join the beta. Anyone interested can sign up on the music beta website and request an invitation.