Microsoft certainly made a big song and dance about data management at its recent WP8 launch, introducing a system that compresses web pages to reduce the data download toll on WP8; allowing users to automate changes to their phone's behaviour to reduce data usage as a monthly data limit approaches; and creating a Live Tile that can display data usage on the homescreen.
"Steve Jobs" plays out in three distinct acts, each taking place backstage before a splashy product launch, introducing and expanding Jobs' relationships with family members and colleagues and technological devices and, in the process, revealing the essence of the man.
The result, "The Launch," introduces Robert Brunner (shown on right), a Pentagram partner, as the "boss" and Rob Forbes (on the left), the founder of the retailer Design Within Reach, as the "client".
Today's launch introduces a second set of currency that lets developers reward players for playing their games a lot.
The French launch introduces a new brand name for the service, which will be called Livi in the market.
In 1988 he launched Ex Machina, introducing its debut product, the WristMac (a watch that displayed phone numbers, notes and reminders downloaded from a Macintosh), at the MacWorld Trade Show that year.
CardBlanc, a new e-commerce application targeting millennial spenders officially launched today, introducing a financial platform for easier mobile checkout combined with social activity similar to what you'd see on sites like Pinterest or Wanelo.
In addition, WordPress is using this launch to introduce its newest default theme, Twenty Twelve.
With the launch, Amazon introduces different ways for kids to browse the library.
Two years later, at yet another much hyped launch, Jobs introduced the iPhone to a legion of customers, many of whom had queued for hours at their local Apple store.
Shortly after Taobao's launch, Alibaba introduced Alipay, a third-party online payment platform, in 2004 to help facilitate transactions on Taobao.
