It’s been widely rumored that the next version of the iPod Touch and iPod Nano to be released by Apple will have cameras inside. Now, a series of photos from Chinese iPod case manufacturers suggest that it’s more than just speculation.
Cases purported to be for new iPods …
I feel bad for Ivan Seidenberg, CEO of Verizon Communications. He has to explain to his neighbors why an angry man with a megaphone invaded their exclusive neighborhood and shouted “Can you hear me now!?” at Seidenberg’s house.
The man is John Hargrave of comedy site Zug.com, and …
The last time we heard from Sony’s VP Mike Abary, the company had finally acknowledged the existence of netbooks (more or less). Now the man’s back in a Laptop Magazine interview, where he spills the beans on some of the company’s reorganization, and what it means for consumers. Internally, the PlayStation, VAIO, Walkman, and Reader now come under the same umbrella — enabling much broader collaboration between the groups, and an all around more cohesive experience for those who buy Sony products. What’s on the horizon, you ask? Well, as Windows 7 is unleashed we should start seeing VAIO devices that take advantage of “certain things that will be native on Windows 7,” including touchscreen. You can also expect to see some sort of PlayStation Network integration on the machines as well as “a better integration with Reader.” Of course, that ain’t all she wrote — so hit that read link and get at it.
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Sony: Touchscreen VAIO this fall, PlayStation Network and Reader integration eventually originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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A popular portable Xbox mock-up.
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It’s no surprise Microsoft is flirting with the idea of jumping into the handheld market. While the company has found success with the Xbox 360, Microsoft has absolutely no portable presence.
With all this time outside of the market, Microsoft …
Japanese mobile carrier KDDI is showcasing a neat way for providing ordinary cell phones with Wi-Fi.
The trick is to integrate Wi-Fi technology on MicroSD cards, used for storage in most modern mobile phones.
At Wireless Japan 2009, …
Apple may be a small player in terms of overall PC market share, but in the premium price segment, the Macintosh is king.
In June, nine out of 10 dollars spent on computers costing $1,000 and up went to Apple in the U.S. market, according to research company NPD Group. That spells out to 91 percent of the “premium” price segment gobbled up by Macs — up from 88 percent in May.
Granted, Windows PC systems still own 90 percent of the U.S. PC market share. Still, this is a victory for Apple, a company whose focus is on quality products with premium price tags.
These numbers make it crystal clear why Apple continues to avoid stepping into the netbook market with a $400 to $500 offering: Even in a recession, it doesn’t need to. This also illustrates that the recent price cuts made to the MacBook family were indeed an effective move.
Apple has 91% of market for $1,000+ PCs, says NPD [BetaNews]
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Creative released the Sound Blaster Wireless for iTunes ($150) this week , which allows music to be wirelessly streamed from a computer to the wireless adapter, using only USB dongle. According to a press release from Creative, the system works with virtually any music source, not just iTunes, on both Macs …
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Soon you will be able to pick up T-Mobile phones, such as the MyTouch 3G, at RadioShack stores nationwide.
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On Thursday, T-Mobile announced a retail agreement with RadioShack to offer its phones, including the new MyTouch 3G, and services in 4,000 RadioShack stores nationwide starting …
Our Gizmodo ’79 celebration may have ended last week, but there’s room for a final post, written by famed retiree and mosquito wrangler Bill Gates. It’s no joke: Gates read the series then sent this in:
I read those 1979 stories all last week, and it put me in a nostalgic mood, so wanted to offer my own memory to add to the collection.
In 1979, Microsoft had 13 employees, most of whom appear in that famous picture that provides indisputable proof that your average computer geek from the late 1970s was not exactly on the cutting edge of fashion. We started the year by moving from Albuquerque back to Bellevue, just across the lake from Seattle. By the end of the year we’d doubled in size to 28 employees. Even though we were doing pretty well, I was still kind of terrified by the rapid pace of hiring and worried that the bottom could fall out at any time.
What made me feel a little more confident was that 1979 was the year we began to sense that BASIC was right on the verge of becoming the standard language for microcomputers. We knew this could be the catalyst that would unlock the potential of the PC to democratize computing and create the right conditions for an explosion in programs and applications that would lead to really rapid growth of the PC market.
By the middle of 1979, BASIC was running on more than 200,000 Z-80 and 8080 machines and we were just releasing a new version for the 8086 16-bit microprocessor. As the numbers grew, we were starting to think beyond programming languages, too, and about the possibility of creating applications that would have real mass appeal to consumers. That led to the creation of the Consumer Products Division in 1979. One of our first consumer products was called Microsoft Adventure, which was a home version of the first mainframe adventure game. It didn’t have all the bells and whistles of, say, Halo, but it was pretty interesting for its time.
Back in the 1970s, there was a publication called the International Computer Programs Directory that handed out what was known as the ICP Million Dollar Award for applications that had more than $1 million in annual sales. In the late 1970s the list included more than 100 different products, but they were all for mainframes. In April, the 8080 version of BASIC became the first software product built to run on microprocessors to win an ICP Million Dollar Award. That was a pretty good sign that a significant shift was underway.
Today, I would be surprised if the number of million-dollar applications isn’t in the millions itself, and they range from apps and games created by a single developer working at home that you can download to your cell phone to massive solutions built by huge development teams that run the operations of huge corporations.
More important, of course, is the fact that more than a billion people around the world use computers and digital technology as an integral part of their day-to-day lives. That’s something that really started to take shape in 1979.
Thanks for the memories, Bill—please keep us posted on that new beer keg of yours!
Microsoft Adventure shot found on YOIS
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