Apple tells resellers to prepare for stock shortages – in other words: prepare for new products

According to AppleInsider, Apple sent out bulletins to resellers “strongly suggesting” that they place orders for 4 weeks worth of top selling iPods and 3 weeks worth of MacBook and MacBook Pro models (the MacBook Air wasn’t mentioned.) All of this is due to limited supplies starting as soon as in 7 days. Basically, Apple’s [...]

Earthquake in Los Angeles takes out AT&T’s network

 
It is not officially official, but the earthquake this morning in the Los Angeles area at around 11:38 am took out AT&T’s wireless network. It could be that the system just shut off as a precaution, or something went terribly wrong due to the earthquake. More likely, the increased amount of calls killed the network, causing [...]

New MacBook to have glass touchpad, out in September?

The latest rumor floating around today is, of course, about the upcoming redesign to the MacBook line. Apparently, the next MacBook will be made out of just one sheet of aluminum–reducing the weight drastically–and be thinner, also its curves will be similar to the MacBook Air. Also included in the rumored redesign is a glass [...]

Red iPhone 3G to come during holiday season?

Rumors have been spreading out around numerous websites that the iPhone 3G will get a (RED) makeover just in time for the holidays.  Could it also be joined by a 32GB upgrade for the iPhone 3G and a 64GB upgrade for the iPod Touch?
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iPhone 2.1 beta seeded to early developers, contains copy and paste references and more GPS features

Developers that were accepted into the iPhone Developer Program before July 11 were seeded the iPhone firmware and SDK beta 2.1. This beta according to multiple sources contains new GPS features that measure speed and direction of travel, or in other words turn-by-turn navigation. But what will make all Apple fanboys around the world excited [...]

HP’s Blackbird Site Leaks NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT

While configuring the HP Blackbird 002 on HP’s website, I noticed that the unreleased, unannounced NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT was an option in configuring the Blackbird 002.  The card supposedly has 512MB GDDR3 of SDRAM, but no other information about the card is listed.  Maybe it could just be a stupid mistake and the card is [...]

Apple earnings call reveals new product by September

MacBook touch: no this picture isn’t real, but it’s a great mockup of what a product could look like. (courtesy of Gizmodo)
Apple had its quarterly earnings call on Monday and it revealed that a “product transition” would lower gross margin next quarter because “Apple makes state of the art new products that the competition just [...]

Engadget leader Ryan Block stepping down to start new company

Editor-in-Chief of Engadget, one of the largest tech blogs out there, Ryan Block confirmed today that he will be stepping down from his current position to start a new company with the founder of both Engadget and Gizmodo, Peter Rojas. According to Block, the new company will be online and gadget-related, but not a direct [...]

WordPress for iPhone hits the App Store

When the App Store launched last week, the main mobile blogging (and I believe the only) application was TypePad. That is great for mobile bloggers who run TypePad blogs, but for those of us that run WordPress blogs (like us), we were out of luck. As of now, the WordPress for iPhone app has gone [...]

Optimus Pultius: 15 keys of customizable OLED goodness

Around three years ago, Art Lebedev studios started talking about making a fully customizable keyboard, complete with displays under each key. Not until the beginning of this year did they actually release that full keyboard, the Optimus Maximus, and for a hefty price of almost $2000 ($1877.43 to be exact). The keyboard has 113 keys [...]

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