Apple's Stupid Photoshop Gaffe, Tech Sector Hiring Down
Highlights from this morning's big tech headlines...
Not even Apple is immune to Photoshop failure of embarrassing proportions. Documentation for the new iPod touch showed the iPhone interface, complete with Phone app, clearly 'shopped onto the the touch. Whoops! [From: TUAW]
While the tech sector has proven strong through the recession, hiring is starting to slow. [From: New York Times]
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Thanks to one investigative blogger, BP has proven itself to be just as unethical as ever. Monday, John Aravosis at AmericaBlog demonstrated that a promotional photo, which allegedly depicts BP employees poring over video feeds of the leaking oil well, had been photoshopped -- and poorly at that. Not only was the photo clearly doctored, the blog claimed, but it wasn't even current. The image's ...
A man accused of credit card fraud and bail-jumping just received a 285-month sentence, despite the fact that his defense submitted several photoshopped images of him doing charity work in a bid for a lighter penalty. Daryl Simons's sad attempt to show himself as some kind of humanitarian backfired in White Plains, New York federal court when a quick analysis of the photos in question proved that ...
Oh, Grey Lady -- when will you take the spoon out of the back of your throat? Once again, the New York Times has demonstrated a fear of fatties, doing no great service to its legacy of elitism and making the rest of America think that New Yorkers are shallow, weight-obsessed socialists. The paper has raised several eyebrows over the past year due to its weightist snark, and it's apparently not ...








