Apple Locks in New CEO Tim Cook Through 2021

Apple’s board of directors last Friday moved to lock in new CEO Tim Cook through 2021 by awarding him 1 million shares of the company’s stock, reports Computerworld. At Friday’s closing price, the shares would be worth over $383 million.

“In connection with Mr. Cook’s appointment as Chief Executive Officer, the Board awarded Mr. Cook 1,000,000 restricted stock units,” Apple said in a filingwith the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Cook, who is 50, will receive half of the 1 million “restricted stock units,” in August 2015 and the second half in August 2021, only if he is still employed by the company at both of those times.

Apple’s SEC filing also noted that former CEO Steve Jobs had resigned, but would continue as an Apple employee; that Jobs was named chairman of the board of directors; and that Cook has been promoted to CEO from chief operating officer.

Cook, who is also a director on the board of Nike, has worked at Apple since 1998.

Next Generation of BlackBerry Smartphones to Play Android Apps

After a rocky summer, Research in Motion appears to be righting the ship. And consumers will have one big surprise with the release of new smart phones: some of the devices will play Android apps. But there’s a catch: the new smart phones won’t hit the market until 2012.

Running on a new operating system, called QNX, the devices are the result of a partnership with Google. The collaboration gives BlackBerry users access to some 250,000 Android apps. The new version of BlackBerry’s mobile OS is a “radical overhaul” of the BlackBerry interface, says TG Daily’s Raven Lovecraft.

Still, for analysts and critics, there remains one question: Will this be enough to help RIM keep pace with the rest of the mobile market?

Samsung Unveils ChatON Service

Samsung has announced that it will be rolling out a new messaging service that will allow users to chat across multiple devices, reports SlashGear. ChatON, which will compete with iMessage on iOS 5 and the BlackBerry Messenger service, supports photos, video, voice messaging, location, contact sharing, calendar, and other multimedia content.

The company says the service will be supported on all major platforms including tablets, feature phones, personal computers, and Bada, Samsung’s smartphone platform.

ChatON will support group chat, direct linking between specific friends, and will have an interaction rank that prioritizes users based on how often they interact with you. It also stores files and content to share with others and lets you communicate with contacts using animated messages.

Apple Television Likely Coming in 2012

Apple is almost certainly working on a digital television based on its iOS operating system, according to multiple sources in Silicon Valley, reports VentureBeat. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, for instance, says that Apple will make an actual TV–not just a set top box–in  late 2012 or early 2013 and cites component suppliers and an internal Apple source, to back up his prediction.

Venture capitalist Stewart Alsop, of Alsop Louie Ventures, follows the hardware industry closely and told VentureBeat he has heard from multiple Silicon Valley sources that the Apple television project is underway. He says the only thing holding Apple back is the cost of LCD screens, although prices have been dropping steadily.

VentureBeat also says The Wall Street Journal and Cult of Mac have hinted at a TV in Apple’s future and even includes former Apple CEO Steve Jobs as a contributor to the rumor because of some comments he made last year regarding Apple integrating its technology into TV sets.

Currently the AppleTV set-top box provides access to movies and TV from iTunes as well as other online video content. But experts say iOS will enable Apple to transform the television into something that doesn’t just show videos, but also plays games, runs apps, lets you check your calendar, use social media, as well as tie into other Apple devices–giving the company a well-rounded consumer product line.

Google May Use +1s to Influence Search Rank

    With more users clicking that little “+1″ icon to signal their approval for a website or post, Google is reportedly exploring the idea of using +1s to influence search rank. The idea has appeal: +1s add an element of crowd sourcing to search results that can make them more accurate and give Google a competitive weapon against Bing, which accesses Facebook “likes” as part of its rankings.

The problem is antitrust laws. Once website owners realize that +1s can help their search rankings, the pressure to add these icons will be intense. Indeed, a recent Forbes.com post suggesting they had better do exactly that “Or Your Search Traffic Suffers” may have hit a little too close to home.

iPhone 5 Assembly Reportedly Begins

Apple manufacturers have begun assembling the iPhone 5 in preparation for an October launch, it has been claimed.

According to Macotakara, a Chinese source has reported that Foxconn and Pegatron have begun assembling the iPhone 5 in preparation for an early October launch in the US and a late October launch for Asia. Timescales for other territories are not mentioned.

The report also claims that the units, once assembled, are not being boxed up. This is because Apple is not ready to install iOS 5 on them yet, so presumably this will happen at a later date.

Lost iPhone 5 prototype and other rurmors

We heard back in early August that Apple hard ordered 10 million iPhone 5s from Pegatron and that the company would begin shipping them to Apple in September, which fits in with the latest reports. A photograph taken at a plant belonging to Wintek in mid-August was claimed to show an iPhone 5 production line.

Components for the iPhone 5 went into production in July , Digitimes reported, and since then there have been several mystery components that could be for the iPhone 5 or perhaps an iPhone 4Sspotted in circulation.

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