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Want an iPhone 3GS?
Be prepared for long lines and shortages.
Apple will officially begin selling its iPhone 3GS on Friday, but some analysts are predicting shortages that could leave some consumers disappointed. If advance orders are any indication, the demand for the iPhone 3GS may outstrip the at-launch supply.
AT&T, the exclusive carrier of the iPhone in the United States, and [...]
MySpace Cuts Staff
It’s a drag when you’re no longer #1.
MySpace, the social network owned byRupert Murdoch’s News Corp, said it will cut 30 percent of its staff to lower costs as it struggles to stay popular in the face of rising competition.
MySpace will be left with about 1,000 employees, it said in a statement released on Tuesday. [...]
AT&T to Boost 3G Mobile Broadband
This is great news.
AT&T today announced plans to upgrade the nation’s fastest 3G network to deliver considerably faster mobile broadband speeds. The network upgrades are slated to begin later this year, with completion expected in 2011.
The upgraded network platform could allow for theoretical peak speeds of 7.2Mbps.
As an iPhone user who is almost always connected [...]
Gore Gets Options For Doing Nothing
With all the talk of Hillary Clinton and her tax returns, I’d love to see Al Gore’s. I’m sure there’s lots of interesting little gems in there.
Former vice president Al Gore, who sits on Apple’s compensation committee and supervised the company’s internal investigation of its option backdating case, has been granted options to buy 10,000 [...]
Better, Stronger, Faster
Boy, do I miss the Six Million Dollar Man TV series. Is it available on DVD yet?
Apple released version 3.1 of its Safari web browser today.
Safari loads web pages 1.9 times faster than IE 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2. Safari also runs JavaScript up to six times faster than other browsers, and [...]
Spitzer Story All About the Use (and Misuse of) Technology
The story about New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is heavily focused on the prostitution angle, yet the real reason he got busted was due to his unknowing involvement in a money laundering investigation. Larry Dignan writes an interesting story on the information system that brought down Spitzer and the proprietors of the prostitution ring. The [...]
Let It Be
I already have every Beatles song ever recorded in my iTunes library, but this is very cool nonetheless.
British singer Paul McCartney has reached a $400 million agreement with iTunes for the distribution of the Beatles’ back catalog.
Never Meant To See the Light of Day
If you work for a company where email is a primary means of communication, chances are good you’ve read or been involved in conversation that was never meant to be visible to anyone ‘outside the building’. Yet, it’s just too easy to click the ‘forward’ button and push an internal message to someone on the [...]
Morph
Lookout iPhone!
Want to know what the cell phone of the future will look like? Nokia offered a glimpse Monday when it unveiled its new “Morph” concept phone, a solar-powered, self-cleaning and shape-shifting mobile device.
Based on the company’s research in nanotechnology — the science of building electronics at the subatomic level — the phone will be [...]
And Now For Something Completely Different
I got an Apple TV for my birthday. It arrived last night. I love it. Here’s why:
– Installation took less than 5 minutes. I plugged the device into my Phillips 37″ LCD HDTV using the HDMI connection. For audio to my Denon 1801 AVR, I used an optical toslink cable. Apple TV found my wireless [...]
Like Opening Your Presents on Christmas Eve
Ok, maybe some of you do open Christmas presents the night before the big day, but in my house, that’s a big no no.
And finding out what Steve Jobs will be announcing during MacWorld Expo the night before the big event is kinda like the same thing…
Apparently, someone is rumored to have posted Jobs’ MacWorld [...]