In tandem with many Apple [AAPL] product announcements, especially in a live conference format, the online Apple Store tends to be taken offline. When it comes back online, it tends to have the new product SKUs, detail pages, and order pages (or in some cases, pre-order pages). This time, it appears that it is following [...]
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If you have been a frequent Wi-Fi user at Starbucks [SBUX] and also a fan of the Starbucks-iTunes free media (music and videos) card promotion, you may have noticed that some stores have had recent troubles in keeping the physical cards in stock or, even worse, up-to-date. How are you going to keep abreast of [...]
Remember the last “big” time that the public was concerned about iPhone reception?
As I’m tracking a variety of media channels at the same time as the Apple [AAPL] iPad announcement, I find it curious as to how the human condition, and certainly all of these so-called tech pundits, keeps wanting to compare new tech with old tech. When I’ve been using the iPod touch in the practice, [...]
During the holiday season, there’s always that frantic search for that cool, new gadget to give your friend or significant other, who happens to be a technical bent. And, like it or not, there is always that discussion about what should be the “latest and greatest” from Apple [AAPL]… It seems to have escalated during [...]
Neil at the AppleInsider blog reported yesterday that Apple [AAPL] has posted a job opening for a full-time employee with significant game development expertise to work on iPhone and iPod touch projects. This is an interesting bit of news, given that Apple has not focused much on accumulating in-house gaming talent in the past. Is [...]
Wow… you heard the plans from Microsoft [MSFT] that they were going to launch a retail store, a la Apple [AAPL], going as far as to woo Apple Retail Store employees, especially managers, from Apple. And with the launch of Windows 7, Microsoft has executed their plan with their first outlet in Scottsdale, Arizona. Management [...]
A few news outlets reported earlier that they spotted new price reductions in several of the iPod models on the online Apple Store. Some of the iPods received a modest $20 reduction, while items like the 32 GB iPod touch was marked down as much as $120. It seems that only the iPod shuffle was [...]
For those of you who are old enough to remember the monumental three-way product/platform wars between a variety of different players, as well as the various face-offs between heated contenders, you can often slot the threesters into that ol’ Good-Bad-Ugly trifecta. Perhaps not this time, however. Apple’s [AAPL] Snow Leopard OS release on August 28, [...]
Could there possibly be any company willing to step up on August 28, 2009, the official release date for Apple‘s [AAPL] new version of their popular operating system, OS X. This new version, codenamed Snow Leopard, is 10.6, but it seems to provide quite a few new features and revisions for existing capabilities. What is [...]
