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  • myYearbook Launches iPad App

    myYearbook Launches iPad App

    Posted on December 19, 2011 | No Comments
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  • CORRECTING and REPLACING GRAPHIC World’s Largest WiFi Network Fon Selects mopay as Mobile Payment Method

    Posted on March 22, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Taptu announces new U.S. office to be lead by new President, Mitch Lazar

    Taptu announces new U.S. office to be lead by new President, Mitch Lazar

    Posted on June 15, 2010 | No Comments
    Taptu, the company indexing mobile touch friendly content, announces today that they're opening an office in the U.S. to drive business development, marketing and product management in response to rapid growth in the North American audience. The new office, to be located in Denver, Colorado will be lead by Mitch Lazar, formerly of Yahoo! Mobile Europe.

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  • The iPhone Leak Gets Ugly: Police Raid Gizmodo Editor’s House, Confiscate Computers

    The iPhone Leak Gets Ugly: Police Raid Gizmodo Editor’s House, Confiscate Computers

    Posted on April 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Wow. Last week, Gizmodo published a massive scoop when they got their hands on what is mostly likely the next iPhone. At the time there was plenty of talk about the legality of Gizmodo's actions (as they admitted to paying $5000 for the device). Now Gizmodo has just published a post saying that editor Jason Chen had four of his computers and two servers confiscated by California's Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team, who entered the house with a search warrant. Gawker's COO has responded to the actions by citing California Penal Code 1524(g), which states that "no warrant shall issue for any items described in Section 1070 of the Evidence Code", which protects information used by reporters.

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  • GameStop details in-store DLC service, to be launched in 2010

    GameStop details in-store DLC service, to be launched in 2010

    Posted on November 13, 2009 | No Comments
    It seems the Internet doesn't like GameStop too much, so I'm not sure how this story will be received. The retailer announced at a conference in New York yesterday that it will launch some sort of in-store DLC service next year. That is, let's say you buy Game, then immediately buy related DLC from inside the store via a special interface. (GameStop worked with both Sony and Microsoft to figure all this out.) Then, when you get home, the DLC is ready to be added to your game.

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  • Video: Microsoft Store Grand Opening in Scottsdale

    Video: Microsoft Store Grand Opening in Scottsdale

    Posted on October 22, 2009 | No Comments
    photo The guys at OWLE, which we covered in July, have taken their device (OWLE Bubo), and shot some video of the grand opening of the Microsoft Store in Scottsdale, Arizona. They even got a couple of seconds of face time with Microsoft COO Kevin Turner. You can find the video below.

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  • Apple: the rest of you are still catching up to the first iPhone

    Apple: the rest of you are still catching up to the first iPhone

    Posted on October 19, 2009 | No Comments
    During Apple’s Q4 earnings call today, a question was asked about how Apple viewed its increased competition for the iPhone in the coming holiday season. In particular, it was asked how Apple views all the new Android phones coming out. Apple COO Tim Cook made Apple’s stance very clear: They’re still catching up with the first iPhone. Yes, Apple views the smartphone market as still being behind the first phone they released over two years ago. “We’ve moved beyond that,” Cook noted.

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  • Interview: Nicholas Francis, COO of Unity, a leading iPhone game development platform

    Interview: Nicholas Francis, COO of Unity, a leading iPhone game development platform

    Posted on August 14, 2009 | No Comments
    If you’re like me you’ve always wondered about making an iPhone game. What mad skillz do you need? What course in computer science will teach you how to vector a jet across the screen? Well, Nicholas Francis set out to solve that problem and came up with Unity, one of the most popular games development [...]

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  • The Mac Versus PC Debate Has Never Been Clearer

    The Mac Versus PC Debate Has Never Been Clearer

    Posted on July 23, 2009 | No Comments
    “Our goal is not to build the most computers. It’s to build the best.” That was Apple COO Tim Cook two days ago during Apple's quarterly earnings call. Sure, it may sound like spin from an executive who doesn't have a better answer as to why Apple isn't competing in the low-end of the market, and thus, gaining market share. But it's not. You need look no further than numbers released today by NPD to understand Apple's strategy. Its revenue share of the "premium" price market — that is, computers over $1,000 — is a staggering 91%. This means that 9 out of every 10 retail dollars that is spent on PCs in that price range, goes to Apple, as Betanews' Joe Wilcox points out. That, for lack of a better word, is insane. Analysts and journalists are often quick to point out Apple's relatively low overall market share (less than 10%). But that completely misses the point of Apple's Mac business. If Apple wanted to make a range of low-end computers, it absolutely could. And such machines would sell like crazy, boosting Apple's market share. But there would have to be some trade-off in quality, and perhaps more importantly to Apple, to its high margins. And as it has proven time and time again, it has no desire to give up either.

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  • How Much Is That Apple Tablet Going To Cost? Not $399 Or $499.

    How Much Is That Apple Tablet Going To Cost? Not $399 Or $499.

    Posted on July 21, 2009 | No Comments
    There's always good bits of data you can pry from Apple's cold fingers during the Q&A sessions of its quarterly earnings conference calls. Today was no different. As usual, a question came up about Apple entering the "low-end" laptop market, which is a fancy way of saying "netbook" market. Once again, Apple COO Tim Cook reiterated Apple's stance that "Our goal is not to build the most computers. It's to build the best." What he means by this is that Apple has no interest in playing in low-end market, which is of course also a low-margin market, which would mean Apple's pretty margins taking a hit. But wording is everything, and Cook once again didn't exactly eliminate the possibility of Apple making a new type of portable computing device. He said that no matter what the price point is, that if Apple feels it can build a product worthy of its brand, it will do so. But he also specifically called out two price points that he thought are producing junky products, and implied that such price points will continue to produce junky products: $399 and $499.

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  • First Rule Of Apple Earnings Calls: You Do Not Talk About The $99 iPhone

    First Rule Of Apple Earnings Calls: You Do Not Talk About The $99 iPhone

    Posted on July 21, 2009 | No Comments
    When Apple announced that it would start selling the iPhone 3G for $99 at this year's WWDC conference, the room buzzed about the possibility. Finally, there would really be an iPhone for under $100. And so not surprisingly, everyone wants to know how it's selling. But don't bother asking Apple about it, because you'll get nothing from them, as we learned on the company's earnings conference call today. Multiple questions were asked of Apple COO Tim Cook about how the $99 iPhone, specifically, was selling. His response? The vague note that the entire iPhone line has seen a "big acceleration in total unit sales." Cook said Apple will not offer a breakdown of how the different version are selling because it's competitive data. But wait, they've broken them up in the past. Just three days after the iPhone 3GS launch, Apple announced that iPhone 3GS-specific sales had hit a million. Obviously, there's a reason to do that; it's an impressive number. But along those lines, you can't help but wonder if Apple is being coy simply because the $99 sales aren't very good? Certainly, it seems like a great deal, but in reality, the monthly bills of the iPhone 3G and 3GS are the same, so it's basically the difference between $100 to $200 in upfront costs.

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  • Apple Begged Microsoft to Stop Running ‘Laptop Hunter’ Ads

    Apple Begged Microsoft to Stop Running ‘Laptop Hunter’ Ads

    Posted on July 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Microsoft has finally worked out how to push Apple’s buttons. According to Microsoft COO Kevin Turner, the company got a call from Apple asking it to stop running the Laptop Hunter ads after the recent price drop on the Mac product line. These ads, you will remember, show “real” people who want to buy Macs [...]

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  • TiVo and Time Warner apparently discussing DVR deal

    TiVo and Time Warner apparently discussing DVR deal

    Posted on June 22, 2009 | No Comments
    tivoLooks like Time Warner cable subscribers may someday get the option of the TiVo interface on their DVR boxes. According to Bloomberg, "TiVo is in talks to provide service through Time Warner Cable Inc." although nothing specific has really been revealed yet.

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