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  • Google dude: “Desktops dead in three years”

    Google dude: “Desktops dead in three years”

    Posted on March 4, 2010 | No Comments
    A charming young buck by the name of John Herlihy of Google Europe believes, like most people in the Western World that desktop PCs will be dead in the next few years. However, he believes they'll become irrelevant by the year 2013, which may put a damper on some PC makers' sales forecasts.

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  • Analyst: iPad could be delayed until April

    Analyst: iPad could be delayed until April

    Posted on March 1, 2010 | No Comments
    It begins: Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek is harshing on all our buzzes by announcing that according to an unidentified source at Hon Hai Precision, a CE manufacturer, the iPad could be delated until April. The source said that there were only 300K units available for a March launch, which may put a damper on what we're calling iPad Awareness Month. He expects Apple to sell about 1.2 million units in 2010 and 3.5 million in 2011.

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  • EBay Deal Alert! 4,000 iPhones stolen from Belgian electronics store

    EBay Deal Alert! 4,000 iPhones stolen from Belgian electronics store

    Posted on November 17, 2009 | No Comments
    Thieves in Willebroek, Antwerp cut a hole in the roof of an electronics warehouse and stole 3,000 to 4,000 iPhones, one of the greatest heists of its kind in history. The phones were headed to Belgian Mobistar and are estimated to be worth $3 million. The news article noted that the thieves made a hole directly over the iPhones which suggests they knew exactly where the phones were being kept.

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  • Yeah, Apple wasn’t integral in Light Peak transfer technology

    Yeah, Apple wasn’t integral in Light Peak transfer technology

    Posted on September 30, 2009 | No Comments
    So Apple wasn't so integral in that whole Light Peak thing after all. Rumors that Apple was integral in the design Light Peak process seem to be false which could put a damper on Apple's plans to implement the technology in its new hardware.

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  • Analysts believe iPhone will become non-AT&T exclusive in a year

    Analysts believe iPhone will become non-AT&T exclusive in a year

    Posted on August 31, 2009 | No Comments
    Oh, Gene Munster. You keep popping up like the loose Cheerios my nine-month-old daughter drops at breakfast. What are you up to this time, you little scamp? Munster of Piper Jaffray "predicts" that AT&T will lose its iPhone exclusivity by the end of 2010, thereby rendering the company impotent and insolvent. Some contenders for the iPhone throne include Verizon. This ignores the fact that AT&T is fighting like a champ to keep the iPhone until 2011 but it seems the popular perception of AT&T as a pile of fail may put a damper on Apple's wish to stay put.

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  • Video Review: Bleep Labs Thingamagoop

    Video Review: Bleep Labs Thingamagoop

    Posted on May 27, 2009 | No Comments
    What do you get when a Kaossilator and a Chumby mate? How about the Thingamagoop from Bleep Labs? This little bugger has an LED, a photo-resistor, and some knobs and it makes a lot of noise. What kind of noise? Noise-rock noise, which could put a damper on my plans to add this to the woodwind section in the orchestra playing my new opus, the iPhone Sonata in D Minor. The website has a collection of sample sounds to show you what this thing is capable of which, it turns out, is a series of piercing squawks.

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