Twenty-five years ago, when the Apple II series and IBM PC’s were fighting out their battles for dominance, Apple [AAPL] introduced a new microcomputer to the world in the form of the Macintosh, a strongly visual-oriented computer designed to make the concepts from its Xerox PARC inspired design readily accessible to the public. Now, at [...]
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Unveiled today at CES 2009, Palm’s [PALM] Pre certainly caught my attention. As you may know, my adventures with the Palm Centro has yet to reach its one-year anniversary, but I’ve been a long-time Palm device user (like the original Palm Pilot and Palm III, and then the Treo 650), so while I’ve certainly thought [...]
A Little Bit: The recent release of the latest combined Apple [AAPL] iPhone/iPod touch Firmware Update has a lot of users wondering what’s in store for them when they next sync their devices. TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog, in case you were wondering) has posted a summary of features found in the recently released iPod touch [...]
As mentioned earlier, the RIM [RIMM] BlackBerry Storm was scheduled for release today, and it certainly did, amidst a flurry of “you-just-gotta-have-it” TV and radio commercials. Although the product has been in the pipeline as a competitor to Apple’s [AAPL] iPhone 3G for several months, it did not seem to have the kind of public [...]
Judging from how quickly almost all of Apple’s [AAPL] free iPhone Tech Talk World Tour sessions have filled, it appears that developer interest in the iPhone (and iPod touch) is still very much alive, at least in the U.S. Of course, it may have something to do with the free aspect of the tech sessions. [...]
After a fairly long delay, the first major publicly available implementation of Google’s [GOOG] Android SDK on a phone (the GPhone format) is finally unveiled as T-Mobile’s [DT] G1, also known as the HTC Dream. In addition to the G1 itself, there’s also the Android Market, a software depot very similar to Apple’s [AAPL] App [...]
Remember when I mentioned the release of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed today? Well, as an additional treat, it is also available on the iPhone and iPod touch platforms today as well! This is courtesy of the folks at THQ Wireless [THQI]. Of course, the App Store prices for a lot of things, including this [...]
Now that the Apple [AAPL] product announcements are done for today, what do we have? New iPod nano: Bigger than the previous one; more strongly resembles the original iPod nano in overall shape, but with more tapered curviness and 8 rainbow colors. 8 GB: $149 16 GB: $199 New iPod touch Redesigned body: thinner, more [...]
Hot on the heels of its iPhone rollout at the Best Buy retail chain that began this past Sunday, Apple [AAPL] is giving its September product announcements under its new “Let’s Rock” program, starting at 1:00 PM ET (10:00 AM PT). There have been a lot of rumors abounding… and a lot of people are [...]
As was mentioned here several weeks ago, Apple [AAPL] and Best Buy [BBY] had inked a channel deal for the latter to start selling the former’s iPhone product at their retail outlets, to start this month. Today was the launch, and it was clearly advertised in the circulars that went out to the public. However, [...]
