Remains of the Day: The board of Avon

28.10.2011
An Apple board member faces scrutiny at her own company, Apple throws another log on the open-source fire, and the Siri-based Apple TV set may listen a little too well. The remainders for Friday, October 28, 2011 are so ready for the weekend.

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Avon CEO--and Apple board member--Andrea Jung is taking heat at Avon for her management practices, or lack thereof. The company recently announced it's facing a pair of SEC investigations, and ditching its sales targets. Investors, apparently, are worried that it signals a pattern. Fortunately, Avon has a plan to reassure them by going door-to-door.

(MacOS Forge)

Apple has open-sourced its Apple Lossless codec under the Apache license, providing the source code for its encoder and decoder software, along with a command-line conversion utility. This may encourage third parties to use the format, which provides high-quality audio at around half the size of uncompressed audio files. Don't worry, this move won't make any more bearable.

(Localytics)