Wags in Britain are up in arms about the gift that President Obama, in London for the G20 summit, has given to Queen Elizabeth II: an iPod loaded with video and photographs of her 2007 visit to Richmond, Va.
The biggest news to come out of iPhone 3.0 is its new support for external peripherals, a move that will expand the iPhone and its iPod touch sibling into new territory as a central hub for controlling all sorts of embedded devices. It will also bring Apple’s new mobile platform even closer to the open-ended premise of the old Newton Message Pad.
If anyone had doubts about the viability of a business that is purely focused on making videogame applications for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch, venture capitalists aren’t among them. Ngmoco, known for iPhone games like puzzle-adventure game Rolando and word game WordFu, said on Monday that it raised $10 million in a new round of financing led by Norwest Venture Partners.
Is Apple in the process of reinventing the way mainstream headphones are designed for the second time this decade?
Why should location-based social networks be worried about Google? Because its new Latitude product was able to gain over a million users in just a week, Google’s vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra told an audience at the Mobile World Congress today.
Users of iPhones beware–state gaming agents are watching you. California gaming authorities tipped off their Nevada counterparts to a blackjack card-counting program that can be used on either the Apple iPhone or the Apple iPod Touch portable music player.
Now that Steve Jobs has bowed out of the annual (and possibly the last) Macworld Conference & Expo this week in San Francisco, there’s considerably less likelihood of any interesting, much less compelling, announcements from Apple at the event.
Too bad in a way, because lots of folks were hoping that Apple might announce its arrival, albeit late, to the netbook party.
Apple’s Black Friday discounts are less than some analysts had expected, though they’re pretty much in line with what was offered last year. Many retailers are offering deeper discounts, but Apple stores are price-matching. Some expected that Apple, with its strong cash position and favorable production pricing costs, would offer more to a vulnerable consumer base. There will be no iPhone discount today.
Apple’s much-anticipated “Let’s Rock” media event yesterday featured a group of largely expected announcements on updates to iTunes, the iPod Nano and the iPod Touch that left investors distinctly uninspired.
Choosing a smartphone reminds me of the old adage from product-design people: “Good, fast, cheap: Pick two.” Much more so than a personal computer, a smartphone is an exercise in compromise. This will continue to be obvious even after Apple announces “iPhone 2.0″ at this week’s conference for Macintosh and iPhone software developers.
Buy a Mac, get an iPod Touch for free.
That’s Apple’s (AAPL) 2008 back-to-school promotion for this year, which started yesterday: qualified individuals who buy a Mac from now until September 15 can get 100% rebate on the purchase of an iPod Touch or an iPod Nano. Under terms of the offer, you get a $199 rebate on the 8GB Nano, or $299 on any storage capacity Touch.
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