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- Bing does its thing with real-time Twitter search results
- iPhone 3G S overheating?
- Lori Drew’s conviction thrown out
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- Will Windows 7 be sold with a family pack?
- Serious iPhone hack patched
- MySpace listening to TNR, making some big changes!
PS: average U.S. family size is 3.14
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Following up an earlier post about some of the reasons Apple picked FireWire over eSATA in the new MacBook Pro range, let’s take a look at what’s in store for the future of FireWire. On the road map to succeed the current FireWire 400 and 800 standards are the aptly-named IEEE 1600 and 3200 ports. They are – you guessed it – twice as fast as the current implementations of the current IEEE 1394 interface – FireWire 400 and 800. Read more »
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- Facebook to simplify privacy controls. Make other big changes.
- Tweet? Please! Twitter? No!
- Cisco to take on Microsoft Office and Google Apps?
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- Sky-high spam
- YouTube announces call to action overlays
- Joost is no longer
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News of the iPhone having sold one million units during its opening weekend has been widely distributed all over the web. This is an interesting number for more than one reason. First, selling one million units at $199 and $299 a piece during the current economic climate is remarkable. How so? Let’s compare this number to the sales of the original iPhone in the summer of 2007. The first iPhone sold anywhere between 250,000 and 700,000 units during its opening weekend. Since this range is quite “fat,” let’s settle in the middle and assume that the actual number was 500,000 units. Note that this was at a time when multibillion dollar banks were not failing, the world’s largest automobile manufacturer hasn’t gone under, and the Dow Jones Industrial average was trading at two times the rate as it is today. Read more »
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Now that at least one iPhone model (the 3G S) does video recording at a decent clip, we have two things to look forward to:
Okay, maybe it’s not really that long of a wait, but as I’m sitting here, typing this post, ready to walk out the door for by birthday trip with Lizette Gagné to Disney World, my iPhone has been syncing for the last half hour. And I’m not kidding – it’s been exactly 28 minutes, 40 seconds since iTunes let me know that it’s backing up my iPhone. And the bar still has a quarter of the way to go before it’s done!
Look, don’t get me wrong, I love my 3G S. One of my favorite features is its ability to capture video. I’m just asking for a little button in iTunes that would give me the option to bypass recorded video during the iPhone backup process to iTunes. This way, I can sync up my music, unplug, and get out the door – iPhone in hand. Can we give Apple a heads-up on this for the next update to iTunes?
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Today on the show:
- Michael Jackson’s passing crashes the interwebs. Series of tubes broken!
- Bing vs. Google
- Netbooks vs. low-end notebooks. Plus Intel’s new chip
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It looks like Sony has finally realized that other mobile devices like the iPhone and iPod Touch are beating its PSP at its own game (forgive the pun). The Japanese electronics giant has hinted that it might open its PSP Go to third party applications other than games. The PSP Go is the latest addition to the PSP family, the successor to the PSP 3000.
In an interview with CNET, Sony’s Al De Leon said that while PSP content “will mostly be games, there’s an opportunity to look at non-gaming applications.” Well, Sony, it’s about time! The PSP is already an excellent device and the Go form factor – with its slide out gamepad – takes that to the next level. It’s never really been clear to me why Sony hasn’t given developers the ability to develop and publish non-gaming apps to the PSP. Perhaps it’s indicative of the company as a whole, you know – missing the iPod opportunity, missing the mark on the PS3, and having a very steel-fisted approach to any kind of modifications (read: hacks) to its devices.
What do you think?
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- iPhone and the long-tail effect of its apps
- iPhone 3G S manufacturing break down.
- PlayStation 1 and GameBoy Advance emulation for iPhone 3G S
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