Posted on February 28th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
O2 is officially the carrier of the iPhone in Ireland, they announced today. Rumors floated around the net yesterday after files indicating the network in the 1.1.4 firmware upgrade. iPhone will retail for €399 and €499 for the 8GB and 16GB respectively. Tariffs will run from €45 for 175 minutes to €100 for 700 minutes. Again, March [...]
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Posted on February 27th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Confirmed by Apple, March 6th is the date of the next Apple event. The SDK seems like the biggest thing on the list for the event, but with things like “Enterprise” and “Software Update” on the roadmap event invitation it seems that more things will be announced. The event will be at Town Hall and [...]
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Posted on February 27th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Time Capsule, Apple’s new wireless base station and wireless hard drive, has, in a way, been forgotten by most. Since Apple announced it at MacWorld, they haven’t really done much about it. The Apple Store still says “Ships: February,” but with only three days left until February is over, it doesn’t seem like this will [...]
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Posted on February 26th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Apple introduced iPhone and iPod touch firmware 1.1.4 today, just specifying “Bug fixes” as details about the update. The update has no big changes, but it does fix bugs with Bluetooth, SMS, and apparently improves the cell signal. The update is a little hefty at around 162MB, so its probably got some hidden secrets in [...]
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Posted on February 26th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
iTunes just overpassed Best Buy and is now the #2 music retailer in the US, trailing behind Walmart, based on the latest NPD Group data. Also, Apple announced that there are now over 50 million iTunes customers and over 4 billion songs have been downloaded.
Press Release from Apple
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Posted on February 26th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Apple finally updated the MacBook and MacBook Pro today, giving both machines a faster CPU, and giving the Pro Multi-Touch. Both models feature Penryn processors, the MacBook Pro with a standard 2.4Ghz (up to 2.6Ghz) and the MacBook with a 2.1Ghz standard up to 2.4Ghz. Both the MacBook and the Pro received hard drive increases [...]
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Posted on February 26th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Apple added a 2GB iPod shuffle to the line last week, and now its shipping. It comes in the same colors as the 1GB and is $10 cheaper than the old $79 price tag for the old 1GB model.
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Posted on February 25th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Incase you haven’t heard of it, Stage6 is like Youtube with DivX. It’s a great video-sharing site that allows you to watch higher-quality videos than Youtube, and you can download them. The site was “successful” according to a post on Stage6’s homepage, but it took more resources than DivX wanted and now its shut down. [...]
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Posted on February 25th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Engadget received a tip earlier today with a leaked image of new part numbers for the MacBook line. They proposed leak states that they’ll be in stock March 2nd, which is about a week away. But some discrepancies like the new box being 17 inches, compared to the normal MacBook box at 15 inches. Also, there were [...]
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Posted on February 24th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Today is the ring-master at Apple, Steven P. Jobs, birthday. I hope you enjoyed your celebratory parties, because I know I’ve been partying all day long just to celebrate his Steveness’s special day. Now go pray that instead of getting gifts, he gives us the gift of the SDK and an updated MacBook Pro some [...]
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Posted on February 24th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
During one of the recent iTunes Video Spotlight emails Apple sends out, Apple announced that every Thursday there would be a new $0.99 movie rental available. The special price is good Thursdays until Mondays, but the regular movie rental rules still apply.
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Posted on February 23rd, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
February is almost over and there is no sign of the software development kit (SDK) for iPhone. Steve Jobs promised that it would be in developer’s hands by the end of this month and it doesn’t look like that’s likely. The opportunity to send out media invitations is long gone and considering that the SDK [...]
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Posted on February 19th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Apple cut the price of iPod shuffle today, bringing the 1GB version down from $79 to $49. Also, they announced a 2GB shuffle for $69 which is coming soon.
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Posted on February 19th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Straight from Toshiba’s press conference happening right now in Japan, before they even started speaking, “Toshiba Announces Discontinuation of HD DVD Businesses.” They will no longer “develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders.” They will cease production approximately March 2008, HD DVD disks for applications and games will end then as well.
via Engadget
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Posted on February 18th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
After a long wait, the Palm Centro has officially been released to AT&T. Sprint’s exclusivity has ended on the device, and the Centro now is an GSM device with EDGE (a bit slower than the EV-DO from Sprint.) It costs $99 with a contract and features a touchscreen, the full QWERTY keyboard (with a green [...]
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