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Month: January 2009
Palm Pre: The Emperor’s New Phone
Palm impressed CES attendees this year with the unveiling of a new smartphone OS and prototype hardware…
Newsweek’s Lyons: Steve Jobs is petulant narcissist with a sadly limited view of the world
Who will run Apple after its visionary CEO and product guru Steve Jobs leaves?
Apple to release Q109 earnings, webcast conference call on January 21
Apple will release Q109 earnings and plans to conduct a conference call to discuss…
Orange’s Christmas Apple iPhone sales hit 210,000
French operators Orange and SFR were ‘satisfied’ with their sales of mobile phones over the holiday period…
Mike Huckabee praises Apple; dumps Windows PCs after 22-years, switches to Apple Mac (with video)
Former Republican governor of Arkansas (1996 to 2007), runner up to John McCain in the 2008 United States…
Nebraska state senators get 70 new Apple MacBook Airs
Issues of size versus extra cost have been raised about the purchase of new laptop computers…
The New Zealand Herald: Apple’s 17-inch MacBook Pro a lighter, thinner, seriously capable machine
Any MacBook Pro is a serious machine, capable of editing video and audio…
Two high school students killed as gangs brawled over Apple iPod
A double slaying east of Colorado Springs on Thursday was the result of a gang-related clash…
RUMOR: AT&T’s Apple iPhone tethering plan to cost $10 per month?
The biggest piece of information we learned was that AT&T…
10 things Apple needs to do in 2009
Like the rest of the business world, Apple is embarking on treacherous times in 2009. But…
Apple iPhone 3G ‘King’s Button’ can be yours for $2.5 million
The new Apple iPhone 3G ‘King’s Button’ is made of solid 18 carat…
Palm CEO: Why would we price ‘Pre’ less than iPhone when we have a significantly better product?
The biggest unknown [with the Palm Pre] is price, which went unmentioned during the demo…
Free calls via Skype coming soon to Apple iPhones
Free calls over Skype, the Internet communications service, could be coming soon to the iPhone…
Dell touts Adamo ‘luxury brand’ sans details
At a news conference Friday, Dell executives said the company would launch a luxury line of computers…
RUMOR: Apple plans to attend CES in 2010
On the heels of announcing its plans to bail on Macworld Expo next year, Apple will be instead attending…
Apple files patent application for camera embedded within Mac, iPhone displays
Submitted in July 2007, the filing details plans for a camera mounted behind a display that could capture an image…
Forbes: Microsoft CEO Ballmer’s CES keynote a misfire
After watching the opening keynote of the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas…
AT&T Mobility tests 7.2 Mbps speeds in Chicago
AT&T Mobility is in no hurry to transition to Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology…
Dvorak: Palm’s Pre just another iPhone copycat; For Palm and RIM to survive, they’ll need Android
Analysts see Palm Inc.’s new Pre smart phone as something more than a wannabe iPhone…
Should Apple buy Palm?
Wall Street seems to think that Palm’s “Pre” phone and webOS signal the rebirth of the company…
Scoble: With Pre and webOS, Palm has built a better experience than Apple
When I sat down at the beginning of the Palm Pre announcement press conference I was expecting…
Report: AT&T quietly sacrificing 2G signal strength in effort to speed up 3G buildout [UPDATED]
In an act affecting owners of 2G cell phones on AT&T Mobility’s network, including the highly visible…
Microsoft finally ready to flush Zune?
In a report by Richard Waters for The Financial Times, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer appears…
CNET writer’s flawed question: DRM-free iTunes Store to haunt Apple?
For years, we’ve been hearing about Apple’s desire to make iTunes DRM-free…
PC Magazine hands-on with Apple iLife ‘09: New features abound
Apple has unveiled iLife ’09, a significant upgrade to its popular suite of lifestyle apps…
Apimac introduces Protect Files 1.0 for Mac OS X
Apimac has released Protect Files 1.0, their new file and folder encryption solution for Mac OS X…
Apple shareholders’ proposals for 2009 opposed by Apple’s Board of Directors
Apple shareholders are putting four motions to the company’s annual meeting on February 25…
Thailand’s AIS fails to reach deal with Apple on iPhone
Advanced Info Service, Thailand’s largest mobile phone operator, said on Friday it had failed to reach…
Second-act CEO success nearly as rare as Steve Jobs
Does Michael Dell, founder of the world’s second-biggest computer-maker, regret going back to run the firm that bears his name?
Quad-core Apple iPhones with GPGPU acceleration and firmware 3.0
One of the most interesting rumors I’ve been tracking here at Macworld Expo in San Francisco …
Entertainment Weekly: The Beatles’ absence on Apple’s iTunes Store is ridiculous
Paul McCartney describes the effort to finally offer a digital Beatles catalog as ‘stalled.’ This is getting ridiculous…
PC Magazine hands-on with Apple iWork ‘09: ‘Innovative suite certainly looks impressive’
On Tuesday, Apple announced iWork ’09, an update to the company’s innovative suite of office applications…
Beleaguered Palm unveils Palm Pre and webOS
Beleaguered Palm, Inc. today unveiled its Palm webOS mobile platform and the Palm Pre…
Macworld Expo exit opens new doors for Apple
Apple’s lack of new products at this year’s Macworld Expo, although shocking to some…
NY Times’ Pogue: ‘It was a strange Macworld Expo this year’
Well, it was a strange Macworld Expo this year. Steve Jobs, usually the looming presence over this…
Steve, buy that man an iPhone: Obama vows to keep his Blackberry despite security, legal concerns
George W Bush was forced to give up email when he was sworn in as President in case hackers…
Verizon ‘picks’ Microsoft search over Google and Yahoo
Verizon Communications Inc has chosen Microsoft Corp to provide Internet search services for cell phones…
IBM delivers new ‘social’ Lotus Notes and free Lotus Symphony for Apple Macs
At Macworld Expo, IBM announced the availability of Lotus Notes 8.5 collaboration software…
Boxee launches BBC iPlayer, Joost, MTV Music support
Boxee’s private alpha went well beyond the developers’ expectations with over 200,000 people signed up…
Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs took $1 salary again in 2008
As he has done for the last decade, Apple Inc. chief executive Steve Jobs took home his customary $1 annual salary…
Apple iPhone mobile Web market share surpasses RIM BlackBerry and Windows Mobile combined
AdMob serves ads for more than 6,000 mobile web sites and 400 applications around the world…