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Verizon Wireless is offering a buy-one, get-one-free deal on its BlackBerry selection and has lowered the price of the RIM BlackBerry Storm even further to $49.99 (with a two-year contract and an instant rebate).
This is the second price drop for the …
A report flitting around the Internet today has Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster speculating that the Apple iPhone may come to new carriers in the US in 2010. This would be news, except that it’s been speculated many times before. Let’s review.
The Wall Street Journal said in April that AT&T’s exclusivity deal for the iPhone expires in 2010 and that AT&T is trying to extend it to 2011.
USA Today also speculated in April that the iPhone would come to Verizon in 2010.
Om Malik said the iPhone will probably come to Verizon’s LTE network (which means, probably, 2011.)
So, thanks, Mr. Munster, but you’re a few months late. For what it’s worth, I agree with Om; Apple isn’t interested in making a phone for the CDMA technology, and the only US carrier other than AT&T that they have their sights set on is Verizon Wireless. That makes the iPhone a prime flagship launch device for Verizon’s upcoming 4G LTE network – which means most likely waiting for a broad LTE rollout in 2011.
Disney smash! Entertainment’s most lovable media conglomerate has added yet another brand to its portfolio. During an investment call today, the company announced plans to purchase Marvel, the comic book publisher turned entertainment powerhouse that has brought the world such cherished pop cultural icons as Spider-man, the X-Men, and the Hulk.
The deal values Marvel at $50 a share, for a whopping sum of $4 billion. Said Disney CEO Robert Iger:
This transaction combines Marvel’s strong global brand and world-renowned library of characters including Iron Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, Captain America, Fantastic Four and Thor with Disney’s creative skills, unparalleled global portfolio of entertainment properties, and a business structure that maximizes the value of creative properties across multiple platforms and territories. Ike Perlmutter and his team have done an impressive job of nurturing these properties and have created significant value. We are pleased to bring this talent and these great assets to Disney.
Disney will become the owner of Marvel’s 5,000 plus characters under the deal. Perlmutter, Marvel’s CEO, will continue to oversee the Marvel properties and will “work directly with Disney’s global lines of business to build and further integrate Marvel’s properties,” according to Market Watch.
Both Disney and Marvel’s boards have approved the deal.
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(Credit: Olympus America)Shipping in November, just in time for your holiday purchasing fun, Olympus’ E-600 dSLR will offer a slightly stripped-down version of the E-620 for consumers whose price elasticity is stretched to the breaking point. At $599.99 with the 14-42mm kit lens (28-84mm equivalent), by dropping down $100 Olympus will be taking on the Nikon D3000 (and whatever new model Canon finally decides to ship–its entry-level model is overdue) in a very competitive price segment.
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A couple of notes for MusicSkins, LLC. First, Never use the word “bling” in your PR. Ever. Second, if David Hasselhoff hears that you’re licensing images from legendary recording artists to “custom-bling” Seagate hard drives and you leave him out of it, you’ll soon find your office deluged with phone calls, faxes, and emails from the man, desperate to get in on the action. (And we know all about his tenacity: we’ve been involved in at least one hot Hollywood project that he’s tried to shoe-horn his way into.) Anyways, if you’re inexplicably interested, check it out: MusicSkins (known for vinyl covers for laptops and iPods, among other things) has licensed a “vast range” of images from either artists or their crypt-keepers and will sell you one for your favorite Free Agent To Go HDD. Prices range from $15 to $30, although for a limited time one can receive 20 percent off any cover and 35 free songs from eMusic when registering your FreeAgent Go with Seagate. And the best news? The cover is removable, so if you ever move out of the dorms (or stop living like you’re in a dorm) you can hide it somewhere.
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MusicSkins slathers Seagate HDDs with famous musicians, Hasselhoff feeling ‘left out’ originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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It’s here: The official invite for Apple’s September 9 annual iPod event. It kicks off at 10AM Pacific—that’s 1PM Eastern—and we’ll be there bringing it to you live, as always.
What do you think we’re gonna see next Wednesday at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts? iPods with cameras? MMS for iPhone in the US? A time machine that’ll take us back to 2005, like this dancer? (Maybe they’ll be dragging Mick Jagger and Keith Richards through it, judging by the caption. Does that mean no Beatles? Hmm.)
One thing it looks like we won’t see, if the photo is any indication, is a coffin for the iPod classic. Update: Okay, since the headphone jack is on the bottom, indicating it’s an iPod touch, maybe the classic will die after all.
Drop your predictions—and desires—right here.
These allegedly leaked roadmap documents from Asus purport to show the company’s Netbook plans for the rest of 2009. The systems and specs indicated aren’t terribly surprising, and are in line with what we expect to see from various Netbook makers around the Windows 7 launch.
The most …
Curious about how well the new Archos 3 Vision portable media player stacks up to its bulkier, more voluminous predecessors? Perhaps the video review after the break courtesy of Archos Fans forum user roylovelock will satiate your curiosity — it will, at least, make you a bit queasy thanks to the handheld camerawork. Placed next to an Archos 5 the thing looks positively lilliputian, but its 3-inch touchscreen seems more than adequate and, while 8GB of storage may not be much, microSDHC expansion offsets that. The review praises the device’s functionality, including integrated FM receiving and broadcasting as well as its seemingly solid hardware design and upwards of five hours of video battery life. Not so highly regarded is the non-responsive UI, with a curious on-screen thumbwheel that looks highly unintuitive — at least when used by this particular thumb. The video below is informative but a bit painful to watch, so feel free to skip straight to roylovelock’s written impressions on the other end of that read link, which are rather more easy to take in on a Monday morning.
[Via Archos Fans]
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Archos 3 Vision PMP given one-handed shakeycam review originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The Securities & Exchange Commission is investigating trading of Apple securities, according to a series of documents obtained by The Huffington Post as part of a “regulatory contract.”
The commission is investigating the names of people who purchased Apple securities over four time periods and “whether anyone did so with a knowledge of non-public, inside information.”
The SEC refused to comment on the investigation.
If two slides leaked to the Eeeuser.com forum are to be believed, ASUS has some pretty interesting — though not terrifically surprising — netbooks on the horizon. The slides, which are apparently the company’s roadmap for US products for the next two quarters, are chock full of refreshed product information. It looks like we’re going to be seeing a brand new Eee PC, the 12-inch 1201N, which will bring NVIDIA’s Ion platform to the line for the first time, with an Atom N270 CPU, 2GB RAM, a 250GB HDD, Bluetooth and 802.11n WiFi, running $499 for release in mid-October. Other than that, we can expect to see the 1005HA-P with the N280 processor and a 250GB HDD option running Windows 7 also arriving in October for $399, and the 1005HA-M with the N270 processor, a 250GB hard drive, and Windows 7 Starter Edition for $349. Finally, Netbook News is also reporting some new 1008HA models not listed on the slides, as well as a multitouch, Windows 7-running T91 convertible tablet with a 32GB SSD priced at $549. There’s no timeline mentioned for this one, but we’ll keep our ears to the ground expectantly. The other slide is after the break; hit the read link if you want the full details on each model.
[Via Netbook News]
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ASUS’ Eee PC roadmap leaks: Ion-boasting netbooks, multitouch T91 coming soon? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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