A Little Bit: Dr Pepper [DPS] is offering a limited-time promotion for a free “single serve” Dr Pepper of Diet Dr Pepper beverage, via a coupon signup. A single serve is one of the following: 16 oz. 20 oz. 21 oz. Unfortunately, you need to provide your contact info in order to qualify for the [...]
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A Little Bit: As part of sweeping changes being made to try to shore up its losses, Sun Microsystems [JAVA] announced today that it will terminate somewhere between 5,000 to 6,000 jobs from its software division and then reform the business unit into three: Application Platform Software Cloud Computing and Developer Platforms Systems Platforms In [...]
A Little Bit: According to the Boy Genius Report blog, RIM’s [RIMM] BlackBerry Storm smartphone is coming soon (November 21, 2008) to Verizon [VZ] stores, with a subsidized price of $199 plus qualifying plan and a $50 MIR. Although BGR is claiming that there is a massive supply run for the Storm, it’ll be a [...]
A Little Bit: According to an article by Sara Stroud over at the Sustainable Industries site, Apple has been working to improve its image and its “green” efficiencies when it comes to production efforts, but it still ranks in the “bottom third” in Greenpeace’s listings of top electronics firms. In particular, the new manufacturing process [...]
A Little Bit: Jason Snell (Macworld) managed to get his hands on one of Apple’s [AAPL] new aluminum 13.3″ MacBooks, as well as one of the new 15.4″ MacBook Pros. It seems clear to me, and to him, that this is the first step in consolidating the MacBook and MBP product lines; I’ve wondered why, [...]
A Little Bit: The announcement for the next Apple [AAPL] product announcement session appears to be October 14, 2008. The cryptic, yet suggestive, tagline is: The spotlight turns to notebooks. Engadget has confirmed that the announcements will solidify the rumors that started before last month’s iPod product announcements that the Apple notebooks, predominantly the MacBooks and [...]
A Little Bit: Felicia, the Cheetos Girl, took some time to post about her House M.D. appearance on her blog. N.B. For you “Twits” out there ( ), there’s always Felicia’s twitter to check out.
A Little Bit: The iFixit site has a photo walkthrough disassembly of the second generation iPod touch that was launched 9/9/2008 after Apple’s [AAPL] iPod announcements.
A Little Bit: There is a live video feed announced for the press conference that Google [GOOG] will be giving for their new application launcher (and Web browser, ‘natch), Chrome. N.B. Thanks to I4U for providing the link.