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A Weird Gmail Bug Has Tons Of People Sending Emails To The Wrong Contacts

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Reference: Techgig.com Double-check the "To" field in the next email you send, if you're a Gmail user. Google's mail service seems to have a bug in its auto-suggest feature that's causing a bunch of people to send messages to the wrong contacts. Instead of auto-completing to the most-used contact when people start typing a name into the "To" field, it seems to be prioritizing contacts that they communicate with less frequently. New York City venture capitalist Fred Wilson just posted about the problem, writing that he got a bunch of emails yesterday that were clearly not meant for him, but people are complaining about it all over Twitter, too. The bug doesn't seem to be affecting all users (I haven't noticed anything funny, for example), but it's definitely not an isolated problem, based on the Twitter response. Google just acknowledged the problem via its official Twitter account: We're aware of an issue with Gmail and aut
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This Was The Thing That Made Steve Jobs So Great

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Reference: TechGig.com John Sculley It's been nearly 4.5 years since Apple cofounder Steve Jobs passed away. But he remains a role model for many today - the gold standard of a tech visionary. One of the few men who could call himself Steve Jobs' boss, former Apple CEO John Sculley, talks about why in his new book, "Moonshot." "Steve was not an engineer - he just saw different things that people were working on and connected the dots between them," Sculley wrote in his new book, notes the New York Post. Sculley gave the example of how Jobs added calligraphy fonts to the Mac, which created a new market for the Mac as a way to do home-grown document publishing. "That was something no one was working on at the time," Sculley said. Obviously, it's not that easy to look at the world, see what's missing and deliver a high-quality product that fits the bill. Otherwise, we'd all be Steve Jobs. John Sculley/Michael Seto/Busines
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