The Daily Roundup: here’s what you might’ve missed

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June 30, 2009


	Steve Jobs back to work at Apple Of course, we’d been hearing of Steve’s continual involvement in “key aspects” of Apple’s business for a while now, so this seems like more of a rubber stamp on the status quo than a major change,		Acer poised to beat Dell, become number two PC maker That’s a big deal — no non-US company has ever made it so high — and it’s interesting that the strategies Acer took to get there are the same things Dell’s been trying to do lately.
	Windows Marketplace launching with 600 apps, or one bazillion times what the App Catalog has Depending on your perspective, that’s either ridiculously anemic — the iPhone’s App Store has a couple orders of magnitude more currently available, for example — or a veritable cornucopia.	Other news of import 13-year-old trades iPod for Walkman, reports on mysterious ancient artifact Comcast launches High-Speed 2go WiMax service tomorrow in Portland, other cities to follow by end of year Palm’s Mojo SDK beta for webOS leaks into the wild
	Supreme Court declines to hear remote storage DVR appeal, cloud recording is on the way Of course, there’s benefits to having a locally stored copy of I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, but just in case we forgot to queue up a recording, …		Nokia, Apple, RIM and others agree on micro-USB phone charger standard for Europe While the free-market works pretty well when, uh, left alone to be free, sometimes it needs a push from a visible hand.
Canal+ live & on-demand TV comes to French Xbox 360s ASUS unleashes USB 2.0 Blu-ray drive — government denies knowledge		Hack: use Google Voice to add visual voicemail to your G1, Dream, or Magic Palm Pre gets upgraded to 1.0.4: homebrew installs via email dead for now Sprint follows Boost, gets Motorola Clutch i465 this summer