While Apple’s iWork and iLife productivity suites are functional, some of you might be feeling that perhaps it’s time for Apple to make some substantial updates, especially since Microsoft Office 2013 has been released not too long ago. Apple has yet to make any announcements on that matter, but both Apple Bitch and MacNN have noted that there were job listings for senior software engineers who are expected to help out with the iLife and iWork team, suggesting that perhaps a major redevelopment of both productivity suites could be in the works. The job listings reveal that Apple might be looking to rework the interface of iWork and iLife, although we expect that improvements and upgrades under the hood will be taking place as well. No word on when the alleged revamped versions of iWork or iLife will be revealed, but considering that the major update for iWork and iLife took place four and two years ago respectively, we guess it’s about time.
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A government that moves with the times would know how to soothe and make themselves appealing to the voting public with populist policies, and it seems that our government might be on the cusp of an interesting technological wooing point – to develop free and public Super WiFi networks not in just one state, but across the US. The FCC is mulling over such a proposal, where it will then require local TV stations and broadcasters to sell wireless spectrum to the government. Subsequently, the government will make use of that spectrum in order to build public Wi-Fi networks.
Ultrabooks are extremely sexy devices that walk in the path that the MacBook Air pioneered, and it does not seem as though this path is going to end anytime soon, which is a good thing, really. We have word that Sony has just made available their desirable Vaio T Ultrabooks available via their online store as well as on Best Buy. Just to recap, the Vaio T series was flaunted in both 14” and 15” flavors at the recently concluded CES 2013, so it is nice to see them Sony’s store in the form of a pre-order.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation, in partnership with RS Components and Premier Farnell, is announcing the availability of the Model A Raspberry Pi in Europe. Unknown to a few, there are basically two Raspberry Pi models – Model A and Model B. The former is basically a low-cost variant. It has only one USB port instead of two, has 256MB of RAM instead of 512MB, and does not have an Ethernet port. The Raspberry Pi Model A is around ten dollars cheaper at $25 and it consumes nearly a third of the power of the Model B. 
Google and France have not had the best of relationships in recent memory, but it is thought that the relationship between company and country should be on the rise in the near future, as Google has started to show that they are willing to work with the authorities there in their ongoing dispute when it comes to displaying links from France’s media sites. In fact, Google’s Eric Schmidt soothed cracks in their relationship by creating a €60 million (which converts to approximately $82 million) “Digital Publishing Innovation Fund” which is said to “support transformative digital publishing initiatives for French readers.”
