Update: Apple and NBC Universal confirmed Friday that NBC shows will not be sold on iTunes.
In a statement, Apple didn’t mince words:
The move follows NBC’s decision to not renew its agreement with iTunes after Apple declined to pay more than double the wholesale price for each NBC TV episode, which would have resulted in the […]
I’m constantly amazed at the places Glenn Fleishman’s excellent articles turn up. That latest, on the problems municipal wi-fi networks are facing is in The Economist (the only newsweekly worth reading anymore). I originally met Glenn when he interviewed me years ago for a article on Warchalking, of all things, for the NY […]
Steve Omohundro is president of Self-Aware Systems, which has a goal of developing an AI systems that understand their own behavior and work to improve themselves. He will be speaking at the Singularity Summit 2007 at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco on September 8-9.
In this podcast interview, Omohundro explained his approach to […]
Dell’s most recent quarter benefited from falling component costs. The rub: It isn’t passing those benefits on to you.
A few months ago, Apple got a huge bump on cheap component prices. It pocketed most of the gain. And it can because it’s a premium brand.
Dell, however, may be a different story. For the […]
Prolific idea-person Chei Wei Wang has developed the “haptic clock,” an application that forces your cell phone to vibrate periodically so as to tell you the time.
Apple is hard at work making the next version of the iPhone worth every penny of its subsidized $499 price tag. The next iPhone probably due out at Macworld or early spring of ‘08 will incorporate a GPS receiver chip closely matching the SiRFstarIII from SiRF Technology. Even though the StarIII’s power consumption is a bit higher than Apple would like it is considered the best chip for a mobile device of this kind, having the capability to receive signals from 20 different satellites simultaneously and a super fast First Fix Time.
Because of the high expectations placed upon the iPhone, Apple is certain to use a chipset using Assisted GPS technology, which cuts down the time needed to determine a location using GPS. (A-GPS) is necessary in urban areas with tall buildings or locations with heavy tree cover.
The first phone/GPS devise to fully utilize this technology is CNS-4320 from DiXCOM. The CNS-4320 hybrid device uses GSM radio with GPRS data for text and multimedia messaging. DiXCOM has also equipped the CNS with the Traffic Message Channel (TMC) for real time traffic information, a technology Apple is thought to be developing.
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Looks like the iPhoneSimFree group, who claimed to have hacked the iPhone a week ago, isn’t hampered by the same legal dilemma as UniquePhones. The company has developed a software-only unlocker for the iPhone which they will be releasing within the next 48 hours.
To satisfy doubters, iPhoneSimFree is also holding a contest where three winners can have their iPhones unlocked for free. No definite price has been announced yet but they will be offering as many payment options as possible. They are confident that it will do its job but they don’t offer a money back guarantee if Apple chooses to lock the device again in the future.
They claim that the only difference between pre- and post-unlocking the iPhone would be the Visual Voice Mail which is an exclusive feature of AT&T. Whether or not AT&T will be able to delay or entirely halt the operation before its release like it did for UniquePhone’s unlocking software is still in question. Most likely we’ll hear about it within the next 48 hours.
Notable headlines:
Mary Jo Foley: HP to wait for Microsoft Home Server update before shipping MediaSmart Server. And on the Microsoft legal circuit…
Larry Dignan: Dell’s quarter solid on better component costs.
Ryan Naraine: Yet another critical Yahoo Messenger flaw. Bank of India site hijacked, launching exploits
Michael Krigsman: “Technically sound / well-trained bodies”
Photos: The shape of ‘community wind‘
Heather […]
This week on the Dan & David Show my Between the Lines colleague Larry Dignan fills in for the vacationing David Berlind. We discuss the news this week about Vista Service Pack 1 coming out in beta soon. There are enough fixes and changes to make you wonder if you should be running Vista […]
Dell on Thursday reported solid second quarter earnings primarily driven by lower component costs, better pricing and enterprise sales.
For the second quarter, Dell reported net income of $733 million, or 32 cents a share, on revenue of $14.8 billion. Operating income checked in at $896 million. According to Thomson Financial Dell was expected to […]
To paraphrase and old saying, ‘You can please some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time.’ Vista is maturing nicely and and no amount of nay-saying will change that!
Novell’s partnership with Microsoft to resell SUSE has drawn fire from many quarters, but in the end the deal appears to have delivered the desired effect: Jump start Novell as a Linux player.
That theory seems to be the takeaway today following Novell’s third quarter results. Novell reported third quarter net loss of $3.4 million, or […]
Mercedes-Benz USA will offer the ability to send directions from Google or Yahoo Maps directly from a computer or mobile device to one of their cars. The Search & Send service was developed in conjunction with Google, Yahoo! and DaimlerChrysler Research, Engineering and Design North America, based in Palo Alto, CA, and will be […]
Yahoo reorganized its sales team as president Sue Decker shook up the ranks, shuffled managers and said farewell to Greg Coleman as head of global sales.
The big picture: This move is really just a down payment on what will be CEO Jerry Yang’s new strategy due in a few weeks.
Unless you’re familiar with […]
