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Nintendo not concerned about competition from Apple

by Chris Rawson (Mar 4th, 2010)

While Sony appears concerned about its eroding share of the mobile gaming market since the phenomenal success of Apple's App Store, gaming giant Nintendo isn't worried about Apple at all. In an interview with VentureBeat, Nintendo of America's Cammie ...

Rumor: Sony developing PSP phone to challenge iPhone

by Chris Rawson (Mar 4th, 2010)

In terms of sales, Sony's PSP has been getting trounced by the various incarnations of Nintendo's DS since day one. Despite the PSP's better graphics and flexibility as a mobile media platform, the DS has grabbed hold of the handheld gaming market ...

NAND flash memory supplies constrained (again)

by Chris Rawson (Feb 18th, 2010)

Two things happen like clockwork every year: Apple raises the capacities on its NAND flash-based iPods and the iPhone, and analysts like iSuppli release a report saying that worldwide supplies of NAND flash are likely to be constrained as a result. ...

Macworld 2010: Hands-on with the Blue Mikey

by Mike Schramm (Feb 12th, 2010)

Blue Microphones are on the show floor here at Macworld, and they invited us by their booth to take a look (and a listen) at the newest version of the Blue Mikey iPhone microphone. And with most of Blue's products (I have a Snowball that I use for ...

Bill Gates on the iPad: Needs a stylus and a keyboard

by Mel Martin (Feb 11th, 2010)

Bill Gates thinks the iPad is OK, but lacking compared to his own vision of tablet computing. Speaking to business blog Bnet he said, "You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen, ...

An ode to iPhone tethering

by Chris Rawson (Feb 10th, 2010)

Sometimes I feel sorry for you poor iPhone users in the US. Sure, the telecommunications landscape in New Zealand isn't exactly perfect, but our small nation has the US beat on at least one very significant point: unlike AT&T, our wireless ...

ASUS wants to be "another Apple"

by Chris Rawson (Feb 10th, 2010)

ASUS chairman Jonney Shih has successfully guided his company through the spinoff of their manufacturing arm Pegatron (whom Apple is already ready to do business with), and in the process stated that he wants the computer maker to become "another ...

Apple hires two more for mobile ad sales

by Mike Schramm (Feb 5th, 2010)

In addition to their Quattro Wireless buy last month, Apple has picked up two more new employees that seems like additions to an incoming mobile advertising business. Theo Theodorou was picked up from Microsoft's mobile advertising sales department ...

Rumor: AT&T outbid Verizon for the iPad data plan

by Mike Schramm (Feb 4th, 2010)

Fox News writer Clayton Morris was also wondering just why Apple went with AT&T yet again for the iPad data plan, but it turns out things between the two companies weren't quite so cut and dry as Jobs made us believe on stage. He says that inside ...

10 reasons to pass on the iPad? TUAW fact check

by Chris Rawson (Feb 4th, 2010)

Over at TechRepublic's 10 Things blog, Debra Littlejohn Shinder has posted an article called "10 reasons why I'll be passing on the iPad." Some of her reasoning is sound, but quite a few of her points are easy to refute. It's worth looking at her ...

Several textbook publishers sign iPad deals

by Dave Caolo (Feb 3rd, 2010)

Back when the iPad was a rumor, many contended that a successful Apple tablet would provide an easy and cheap way to distribute textbooks. Now, the Wall Street Journal reports that several publishers have come on board. Specifically, publishers ...

Repair service finds iPad's camera slot

by Dave Caolo (Feb 2nd, 2010)

The folks at Mission:Repair have received iPad replacement parts from Apple. While checking them out, they noticed a slot that seems like it could accommodate an iSight. So they pulled an iSight camera from a MacBook pro and guess what happened. It ...

Have we seen the end of the $9.99 eBook?

by David Winograd (Feb 1st, 2010)

At the roll out of the iPad, our old friend Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal chatted up Steve, and when asking about the pricing of buying books from the iBookstore, Walt was told that the price would be the same as Amazon. Amazon currently ...

First iPad sales estimates: four million this year, double that in 2011

by Chris Rawson (Jan 27th, 2010)

Even though the device won't be released for another two months, Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray has been quick to revise his sales estimates for the iPad. His former estimate of 1.9 million units sold in the first 12 months was based on an estimated ...

Apple's official iPad video, specs page

by Mike Schramm (Jan 27th, 2010)

Apple has updated their website with all kinds of fun iPad information, including an official specs page and the video that was shown at the end of today's event. The thing looks just plain beautiful, but then again this is basically their first ad ...

Apple making its own chips starting with the A4

by Mike Schramm (Jan 27th, 2010)

Even though this morning's presentation had Apple calling themselves the "largest mobile device company" in the world, apparently they're in the processor business now, too. The just-announced iPad doesn't carry any special Intel or Nvidia CPU -- ...