Posted on June 30th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Just as suspected, Telsa Motors announced the new Model S with the help of California Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger this morning. The five passenger, completely-electric sports sedan will sell for $60,000 and get 225 miles on a full charge. The reason for the Governator’s involvement: Tesla will be manufacturing the car in Northern California due to [...]
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Posted on June 30th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
GameStop and Amazon added Rock Band track Pack Vol 1 to their product lists recently, giving a release date of July 15. The disc contains 20 of the most “popular tracks in Rock Band history.” You would think that it just is extra tracks for the game, but the expanded information reads: “A fully functional [...]
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Posted on June 30th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Harmonix announced today that Rock Band 2, the follow up to the original, will come in XBOX 360 and PS3 flavors later this year (with XBOX 360 coming in September). IGN went to chat with Lead Designer Dan Teasdale about the game. Some big things we took out of the interview:
Downloadable tracks from Rock Band [...]
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Posted on June 30th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Apple released an update to Mac OS X Leopard today, bringing the version up to 10.5.4. For the details on the update, check out specs here. So open up Software Update on your Mac and hit the install button.
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Posted on June 30th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Did you see WALL•E this weekend? Well if you did, you were partly seeing an Apple masterpiece. How is WALL•E, a Disney•Pixar production, related to Apple?
The first connection is Steve Jobs. Back in 1986, Jobs bought The Graphics Group from Lucasfilm. The Graphics Group later turned into Pixar, which was purchased by Disney in 2006. Jobs is [...]
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Posted on June 29th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
iPhone turned one today. June 29, 2007: the day iPhone was released to the public. In less than a year, iPhone has received multiple software updates, had a price drop now and then, increased storage space, and launched in multiple countries. iPhone has even become one of the top phones in the country. So a [...]
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Posted on June 29th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Tesla Motors, known for its $109,000 electric Roadster, will announce a sedan during a press conference tomorrow, according to TechCrunch. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will be at the press conference to represent a deal between Tesla and the state. Little is known about the sedan, but if Tesla really wants to make a breakthrough, pricing will be [...]
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Posted on June 29th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Apple has flipped the switch and activated Me.com email addresses for some .Mac customers. In other words, if a current .Mac customer has username@mac.com, email sent to username@me.com would be forwarded to their .Mac account. @me.com emails are part of MobileMe, Apple’s upcoming replacement to .Mac. For more information on MobileMe - check out me.com [...]
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Posted on June 27th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Rumors started surfacing of Virgin Mobile buying Helio recently, and the companies confirmed that today. Virgin Mobile is buying Helio from SK Telecom and Earthlink for $39 million worth of Virgin Mobile USA stock. The deal is set to close in Q3 2008, but Helio customers will mostly not be affected. Helio’s 170,000 customers will [...]
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Posted on June 27th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Today, June 27, represents a major day in history. Today is Bill Gate’s last day as a full-time Microsoft employee. He will still step in once a week to check in, as well as remaining Microsoft’s Chairman and largest shareholder. The move will show Gates moving to a being a full time philanthropist and a [...]
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Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Don’t start jumping up and down just yet, but if this latest rumor is true it would be worthy of much more than jumping. MMS (multimedia message service) support, or the ability to send text, pictures, and possibly video to other MMS capable phones, is one of the most requested iPhone features. iPhone Atlas has [...]
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Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Today was a relatively big day for iPhone news. Let’s wrap-up today’s news:
Apple released the eighth iPhone SDK beta today, providing a new, more stable release of iPhone 2.0 beta firmware. Alongside the release, Apple seeded iTunes 7.7 to developers in the iPhone Developer Program. According to developers, iTunes 7.7 shows Applications and related options [...]
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Posted on June 25th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
This is one marketing campaign that’s never been done before, and it could just be one of the most brilliant yet. Sprint is offering the first 1000 people that create a video with it’s new flagship device, the Samsung Instinct, $20. The rules are pretty simple: create a video with the new Samsung Instinct, upload [...]
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Posted on June 25th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Cell phone guided tours didn’t really exist before the iPhone’s way back in June of 2007. Even now, most companies don’t have guided tour videos. RIM thought to itself, “hey, let’s try and show the customers how to use our new BlackBerry Bold.” This idea may have been a good one, but after watching RIM’s [...]
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Posted on June 25th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Sad news BlackBerry fans: the BlackBerry Bold’s launch on AT&T has been delayed until August. AT&T and RIM need more time to deal with overheating and software issues with battery life, according to The Boy Genius Report. The BlackBerry Bold is still on target to launch on Canada’s Rogers Mobile shortly.
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