Sep

5

Apple Event - Final Comments

September 5, 2007 | Comments

Clearly, the blogosphere has gone crazy after today’s Apple event. While I was down on Steve early on (I really don’t care for ringtones), I underestimated his showmanship. Lots of ‘next things’ this time around.
My final comments on the event:
IPhone Price Cut:
More than anything else, this will dominate the news today. I can’t blame anybody [...]

Sep

5

4GB iPhone for $299

September 5, 2007 | Comments

Apple dropped the 4GB version of the iPhone from its line-up. You can still buy one, though.  It’s a clearance item and going for $299 right now. Get them while they last (which won’t be long).
Technorati tags: iphone, 4gb

Sep

5

Apple Pisses off Early iPhone Owners

September 5, 2007 | Comments

So Apple has reduced the price of the iPhone by $200. I can only imagine how the early adopters feel. And with no expectation of new iPhones coming out today, I can only imagine how those feel who bought the phone just yesterday.
Great way to treat your most loyal fans, Steve, but hey, I am [...]

Sep

5

Apple Releases iPod Touch - It’s the iPhone Without the Phone!

September 5, 2007 | Comments

Yes - the rumors were true - and it is called the iPod Touch, built on the iPhone design.
 
Features: 8mm thick, with wifi, Safari browser, YouTube, iTunes store over wifi (

Sep

5

Apple Event Updates

September 5, 2007 | Comments

The Apple Event has started.
Apple Store is down - of course
Apple ships new iTunes - “to support some new products”
Ringtones for the iPhone for 99cents
custom iTunes ringtone builder - not every song will be ‘ringtonable’ - so you pay twice for your ringtone - once for the song - once for the ringtone

so [...]

Sep

4

New iPods Coming Tomorrow

September 4, 2007 | Comments

Here are my pre-Apple Event prediction:
Everybody and their poodles are expecting Apple to release new iPods tomorrow. The expectation is that we will see a wide- and touch-screen iPod but there is no consensus yet whether it will be hard-disk or flash memory based. I am going for a HDD based model, simply because the regular iPod [...]

Sep

4

AMD Launching Barcelona Worldwide in Seven Days

September 4, 2007 | Comments

According to the Inquirer, AMD will launch its new low-voltage Barcelona processor in Bejing, Bangalore, Seoul, Taipei, Tokyo, San Francisco and, of course, Barcelona.
I don’t hear a lot of people at Intel being very nervous about this. Intel’s new 45nm Penryn processor (the Barcelona is still a 65nm chip) is just heading into full production for [...]

Sep

4

Foneshow Gets VC Funding and is Hiring

September 4, 2007 | Comments

Foneshow, the Portland, Maine, based ‘podcasts-on-your-phone’ company just announced that it has closed a Series A round of VC funding. Here is the announcement:
After a year of bootstrapping, we’ve, closed a (slightly oversubscribed) series A round of venture funding. Our investors include CEI Community Ventures, Masthead Venture Partners, the Small Enterprise Growth Fund of Maine. [...]

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