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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the iPhone

October 24, 2007

I’m starting to think this subject warrants its own WordPress Category. As I previously disclosed, despite the fact that Apple is at war with its users on the iPhone and other platforms, iBought. I seriously love the thing. It has a great user interface, the applications are easy to use, and [...]

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Apple Can’t Ship Keyboards?!

August 17, 2007

Back in the ’90s, when I actually logged some time at a campus Apple reseller, the Apple supply chain was ridiculously poor, due to its unpredictability and the occasional ridiculous lack of availability of basic accessories. Often our academic customers would spend their hard-earned grant money on complete Apple systems only to receive them [...]

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Move Over, iPhone

May 30, 2007

If, in a few weeks, it turns out that Apple’s iPhone is going to become another delicate rosebud in the AT&T Wireless walled garden, there are a number of candidates waiting in the wings for those of us who’ve seen this as the bazaar’s big chance to topple the cathedral. One of the more [...]

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Video iPod?

January 6, 2003

http://news.com.com/2100-1040-979204.html?tagý_lede1_hed Apple banks on digital media harvest
By Joe Wilcox Staff Writer, CNET News.com January 6, 2003, 4:00 AM PT
Apple Computer on Tuesday is expected to unveil a new portable product aimed at bolstering the company’s strategy to make itself into a major player in home entertainment, sources and analysts said.
The product, which [...]

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Re: FW: Apple Cell Phone

September 26, 2002

I’m going to take some risk here and go on record stating that although I am 100% conviced that there is an “iPhone”, this ain’t it. I’ll even go further to say that the logical partner to build the iPhone is SONY/Ericsson, and not Motorola. Why? Bluetooth.
SONY/Ericsson support Bluetooth in their [...]

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Apple To Make Mobile Phones?

August 26, 2002

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/19/technology/19APPL.html
Apple’s Chief in the Risky Land of the Handhelds By JOHN MARKOFF
AN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18 — It has long been Silicon Valley’s favorite guessing game: What is Steven P. Jobs going to do next?
The question is particularly engrossing as Apple Computer prepares to introduce the new version of its Macintosh OS X [...]

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FCC Releases UWB

May 30, 2002

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A24440-2002May28
washingtonpost.com
FCC OK Unleashes XtremeSpectrum
By Michael Bruno Washtech.com Wednesday, May 29, 2002; Page E05
It’s been a long wait for Vienna-based XtremeSpectrum Inc.
The company has been developing semiconductor technology for wireless transmission of information since it was first funded in November 1998. But the ultra-wideband technology, caught up in a 3 1/2-year [...]

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Xbox May Spawn Entertainment Hub

January 16, 2002

—– http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20020116/tc/xbox_may_spawn_entertainment_hub _1.html
Wednesday January 16 02:00 PM EST
Xbox may spawn entertainment hub By David Becker CNET News.com
Microsoft plans to transform its new Xbox game console into a general home device that handles everything from e-mail to video recording, according to analysts.
Prudential Securities analyst Hans Mosesmann, who covers graphics chip maker Nvidia, [...]

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Re: GEEK: Intimate Computing

October 26, 2000

Not that far off from what FusionOne is up to. FusionOne aims to be your primary storage medium, and they’ve got the terabytes to prove it. They’re shooting for over-the-air or over-IP synchronization of all of your devices and insodoing they’re making themselves your big-ass virtual hard drive in the sky.
Right now [...]

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