After a boring 3 ads from the duo of Seinfeld and Gates, Microsoft is realizing that the ads are just creating the wrong kind of image: a dull and boring company. No more, we speculate, as a new set of ads have been launched.
Under the “Life without walls” tagline, which is a key part of [...]
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It’s over for Seinfeld and Gates, Microsoft launches new commercials
Microsoft and Jerry Seinfeld, an ad about nothing
Microsoft has been trying to figure out a way to trump Apple’s “Get a Mac” ads with the uber cool Mac guy making a fool of the round cherubic PC guy ( aka Microsoft ). Seeing the cool ads from Apple, we could not help but chuckle at every one of them.
Score Mac:Many PC:0
Microsoft now [...]
Apple refreshes iPod line, prepares for holiday season
Today, Apple refreshed it’s iPod product line with the introduction of the new 4th generation iPod Nano. The 3rd generation Nano was met with much criticism for an un apple like design. The new Nano is sleek and is elongated in shape, much like the 2nd generation nano, a big hit among nano buyers.
Apple also [...]
September 9th, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuediPhone on sale at Best Buy starting Sept. 7
The iPhone will be available at almost 970 Best Buy stores all over the US starting September 7, 2008. As the first 3rd party retailer of the iPhone 3G (still to be sold only with the AT&T plan and contract) Best Buy has scored something of a victory.
However, the economics of this deal are still [...]
August 12th, 2008 | qpeg | Comments | Continued
myFUNAMBOL, a free MobileMe alternative
Apple’s $99 a year MobileMe service was launched in WWDC in June this year. It is a new Internet service that delivers push email, push contacts and push calendars from the service in the “cloud” to native applications on iPhone™, iPod® touch, Macs and PCs.
Apple, however has had its share of troubles with the service [...]
Apple sued for overworking employees
Apple faces legal action as David Walsh, an ex Apple employee, files a lawsuit in the US District court for Southern California. The complaint claims that Apple employees are routinely subject to working conditions resembling indentured servitude and that Apple denies technical staffers required overtime pay and meal compensation in violation of state law.
Lead plaintiff [...]
Motorola ROKR EM30 is 22nd LiMo phone: Linux World San Francisco
At the Linux World Expo in San Francisco today, LiMo foundation executive director Morgan Gillis, announced that Motorola’s new ROKR EM30 is powerd by LiMo technologies. This takes the no. of LiMo phones up to 22. 7 other handsets were announced yesterday from Motorola, NEC and Panasonic Mobile Communications.
The mobile platform wars have been heating [...]
iTunes leader in music but Amazon upsets Target
According to the latest MusicWatch consumer surveys from The NPD Group, a leading market research company, the five leading music retailers in the U.S. for the first half of 2008 (January through June, based on purchases of CDs and a-la-carte digital music downloads) ranked as follows:
iTunes
Wal-Mart (Walmart, Walmart.com, Walmart Music Downloads)
Best Buy (Best Buy, Bestbuy.com, [...]
Ngmoco gets money from Kliener’s iFund
Game publisher Ngmoco Inc. has raised an undisclosed Series A round from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Maples Investments as it readies to release new games on Apple’s App Store, where iPhone users shop for new features.
CEO Neil Young is a former executive from Electronic Arts, where he oversaw the development of several hit [...]
Apple shares tank after hours despite strong Q3
Apple’s stock got hammered after hours despite a strong quarter and significant growth in Mac computer sales. The company today announced financial results for its fiscal 2008 third quarter ended June 28, 2008. The Company posted revenue of $7.46 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.07 billion, or $1.19 per diluted share. Revenues and EPS [...]
July 21st, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued1 million iPhone 3G’s sold in 3 days!
Apple® today announced it sold its one millionth iPhone™ 3G on Sunday, just three days after its launch on Friday, July 11. iPhone 3G is now available in 21 countries—Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the US—and will [...]
July 14th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued125 Free applications for the iPhone 3G
Apple® today announced that more than 500 native applications will be available on the iPhone’s App Store when Apple’s iPhone™ 3G goes on sale tomorrow. Apple’s iPhone mobile platform has developers scrambling to create an array of innovative applications such as action games, medical applications and productivity tools for the enterprise. These apps will be [...]
July 10th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
iPhone 3G Buzz
Are you waiting for iPhone 3G? I certainly am. And the buzz is on as we are just 1 day away from the most talked about phone in recent times.
iPhone 3G lines being in New York on JULY 7th. That’s FIVE days before the launch.
Part of the queue in New York is made up of [...]
July 10th, 2008 | supa | Comments | ContinuedHow many Smartphone buyers want iPhone 3G?
With iPhone 3G release just over a week away, a majority of smartphone buyers are waiting for buying an iPhone 3G. According to data released this week from RBC Capital Markets, 56% of customers planning to get a smartphone in the next 90 days want to have iPhone 3G. RIM’s Blackberry bold is distant second [...]
July 3rd, 2008 | supa | Comments | ContinuedMicrosoft to offer iPod for trying Live Search in Australia
Let’s face it. Microsoft’s Live search is very disappointing and the deal with Yahoo is not coming along. So what could Microsoft do to lure web surfers to the live search? Well, the answer for Australian surfers is iPod. You heard it right! Microsoft is offering lucky web surfers Apple’s iPod as prizes for trying [...]
July 3rd, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued5 App Ideas for iPhone 3G
So iPhone 3G is 3 weeks away and you are planning to make a super awesome iPhone app that you would like to sell in Apple stores, thanks to 70-30 profit sharing. Here are some of the ideas that would help me if you do implement them. Also, make sure I get a free copy.
iPhone [...]
June 24th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued
Nokia purchases all of Symbian, creates Symbian Foundation for royalty free OS
Nokia has announced today that it has offered a cash offer to acquire all of Symbian Limited that Nokia does not already own, at a price of EUR 3.647 per share. The net cash outlay from Nokia to purchase the approximately 52% of Symbian Limited shares it does not already own will be approximately EUR [...]
June 24th, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuedWSJ reports Android delay, Google disagrees
According to WSJ, Google’s Android plateform for mobile phones won’t have a working handset until the 4th quarter. According to the report “some cellular carriers and makers of programs that work with Android are struggling to meet that schedule, people familiar with the situation say. T-Mobile USA expects to deliver an Android-powered phone in the [...]
June 23rd, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued
Sprint announces Samsung Instinct (iPhone competitor) for $129.99
Sprint has announced today that the Samsung Instinct will be available on its network starting June 20th and will retail for $129.99 for a 2 year contract after a $100 mail-in rebate.
Instinct is Samsung’s answer to the iPhone and will finally be available after significant delays from its original launch plans a year ago. Unfortunately [...]
OS X Snow Leopard introduces GPU compute library
Apple announced OS X Snow Leopard, the follow up to Max OS X Leopard, in Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference today in San Francisco.
The updates to Leopard include
Out of the box support for Exchange 2007 for Mail, Address Book, and iCal using the Exchange Web Services protocol
64 bit computing and multi-core optimizations
OpenCL - Open Compute [...]
iPhone 3G ($199 and up), MobileMe announced at WWDC
Steve Jobs delivered his Keynote today at the Apple WWDC 2008. Eagerly anticipated were details on Apple’s 3G phone and Apple provided attendees with a glimpse of things to come.
“Just one year after launching the iPhone, we’re launching the new iPhone 3G that is twice as fast at half the price,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s [...]
Apple WWDC 2008 begins tomorrow
Apple WWDC will begin tomorrow with over 150 lab sessions covering a myriad of developer technologies for the iPhone and Max OS X. The charismatic Steve Jobs will deliver the Keynote at Moscone Center, San Francisco , as developers and the tech community eagerly awaits announcements from apple. Speculations are rife over announcements about the [...]
June 8th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
More Orange for the iPhone
In a short press release, Orange today announced a new agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone to Orange customers in Austria, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Jordan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland and Orange’s African markets later this year.
Apple has so far struck exclusive deals for the iPhone with AT&T Inc. in the United [...]
Blackberry Partners Fund announced
It is rumored ( VentureBeat) that Research In Motion, the RBC and Thomson Reuters have invested in a $150 million venture investment fund, called the BlackBerry Partners Fund, to support developers of applications running primarily on RIM’s Blackberry phones. The BlackBerry Partners Fund website is alive but appears to be still under construction.
As per [...]
Apple Q2 net profit up 36%, margins decline
Apple computers announced it’s earnings for Q2 FY08. The Company posted revenue of $7.51 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.05 billion, or $1.16 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $5.26 billion and net quarterly profit of $770 million, or $.87 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter.
Among it’s top 3 businesses
Apple [...]
April 23rd, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
