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Thursday, July 2, 2009

iPhone 3GS Launch AT&T’s “Best-Ever Sales Day” [Internal Memo]

iphonehatIt took Apple and AT&T 74 days to sell the first million iPhones back in 2007. This year it took just three. No wonder AT&T is crowing about first-day sales. In an all-hands memo to employees this week, the carrier, which sold “hundreds of thousands” of iPhones during its pre-order process, said first-day sales of the 3GS were off the charts. The memo, after the jump.

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Palm Pixie in November?

According to some lines of code secreted away within webOS, Palm has at least one more handset in the pipeline–the so-called Eos (codename: Pixie). And while no one seems to know when it will arrive at market, there’s speculation today that we’ll see it by November, right in time for the winter holidays.

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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Pre Makes Palm a New Man in Only Minutes a Day

charles_atlas_thumbPalm’s market cap is currently $1.95 billion. A year ago it hovered around $400 million. Amazing when you think about it, really. On the promise of the Pre and the company’s new WebOS operating system alone, Palm has added more than $1.5 billion to its market cap.

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Thursday, June 18, 2009

AT&T: For Those of You Just Joining Us, iPhone 3G S Available Tomorrow

iphone3gsjapan“iPhone 3G S Available at AT&T Tomorrow.” That’s the title of the press release that just landed in my inbox–even as the lines form in New York City and Tokyo. Never hurts to state the obvious, I suppose.

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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

iPhone 3.0. It’s Finally Here

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AT&T Reconsiders iPhone 3G S Upgrade Tax

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The outcry over the $200 premium some existing iPhone 3G users must pay to upgrade to the iPhone 3G S has caused AT&T to think better of the move. The carrier this morning extended the 3G S’s so called “standard upgrade” prices of $199 (16GB) and $299 (32GB) to existing subscribers who would have otherwise qualified for those lower prices on or before the end of September.

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iPhone 3.0 @ 10 am PDT, 1 pm EDT

iphone30-150x150110 am PDT, 1 pm EDT.

That’s when Apple is expected to roll out iPhone 3.0, an update that will bring a number of long-anticipated features to the iconic device. Among them a phone-wide Spotlight Search, push notifications and the long-overdue cut, copy and paste.

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Monday, June 15, 2009

If iPhone 3G S Pre-Orders Are Already Sold Out, Someone Better Tell Apple…

applstoreApple’s new iPhone 3G S is en route to many of those who preordered it last week following its debut at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference. Apple began issuing shipping notifications and tracking numbers to some customers over the weekend.

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QOTD: I Feel So…”Valued” DD Shorty

As a valued AT&T customer, AT&T can offer you an early iPhone upgrade with a new 2-yr commitment and an $18 upgrade fee. You may qualify for a standard iPhone upgrade on 12/29/2009.

$299.00*–8GB iPhone 3G (black)
$399.00*–16GB iPhone 3G S (black or white)
$499.00*–32GB iPhone 3G S (black or white)

…For non-qualified customers, including existing AT&T customers who want to upgrade from another phone or replace an iPhone 3G, the price with a new two-year agreement is $499 (8GB), $599 (16GB), or $699 (32GB).

– The ugly fine print for some existing AT&T (T) subscribers planning to purchase an Apple (AAPL) iPhone 3G S.

Monday, June 8, 2009

WWDC 2009 Keynote LIVE: iPhone OS 3.0

tetheringSo what’s next? iPhone OS 3.0, obviously. Its new features: cut, copy and paste, which works across apps and undo support via shake. Also, Landscape view and keyboard for all main applications — mail, messages, etc. MMS support has been added as well. But it’s carrier-dependent. In the states, for example, AT&T won’t be supporting it until late summer (audience groans).

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Monday, June 1, 2009

Q: Should Apple Bring the iPhone to Verizon? A: Yes.

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With AT&T’s iPhone exclusivity deal set to expire in mid-2010, Apple has a big decision to make: Extend that deal or abandon it and sign on Verizon as a second carrier partner. In a note to clients today, Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi considers the implications of both choices and concludes that the latter is the best option for Apple.

Why? A deal with Verizon could more than double U.S. iPhone sales in the near term.

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Monday, May 11, 2009

AT&T and Verizon Sitting in a Tree, D-U-O-P-O-L-Y

verizon-att-fightjpgAT&T has beaten out some 30 telecommunications carriers and private equity groups to buy the wireless spectrum and other assets that rival Verizon Communications was required to divest as a condition of its recent acquisition of Alltel Wireless. The company said this weekend that it will pay $2.35 billion in cash to buy licenses, network assets and some 1.5 million wireless subscribers across 18 states, mostly in rural areas.

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Monday, May 4, 2009

Amazon’s Big Book

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Sprint: Tourniquet, Please, Redux

ackroyd_juliachildjpgIt’s almost as if Sprint Nextel’s postpaid customers can hardly wait for their contracts to expire so they can jump to another carrier. The troubled wireless carrier lost more than one million postpaids in the first quarter of 2009 amid fierce competition from rivals AT&T and Verizon Wireless.

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Friday, May 1, 2009

Verizon Mulling WiFi “Marketing Stunt”

wifijpgLooks like AT&T and Cablevision’s decision to offer free WiFi to their subscribers has gotten a competitive rise out of Verizon, which just a few months ago was dismissing such efforts as “marketing stunts.”

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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.

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alt.misc

  • 10 Best Uses Of Classical Music In Classic Cartoons

    Includes “Pigs in a Polka,” “Rabbit of Seville” and, of course, “What’s Opera, Doc?”

  • Web Site Story

    Take the famous ballads and duets of West Side Story, insert a dozen mentions of famous social media sites like twitter and facebook, and this is what you get.

  • Wooden iPod

    An iPod mini rebuilt with a wooden case

  • Han Solo, P.I.

    Star Wars meets Magnum, P.I.

  • The “literal video” collection

    Music videos recreated with new lyrics based on what’s actually happening in them. Daydream Believer and Total Eclipse of the Heart are particularly good.

  • E-Mail From Your Facilities Department

    In response to numerous e-mails, I have no idea what planet the giant alien creature is from. Judging from its enormous gills, I’d have to guess it’s from a watery planet. Reminder: please let me know if you plan to be in the office on Memorial Day so I can request HVAC for your floor.

  • Amazon Customer Reviews: Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt

    For those of you who mock the wolf shirt beware. There is an old Navajo story about a young man who made fun of another man for wearing a wolf trio shirt. Legend has it that in his sleep, the wolves on the other man’s shirt came to life and tore his body to shreds. They never found any part of that man’s body. The Wolf is something to be respected and feared, not treated like a novelty.

  • Nice Muscle!

    Hands down the most inexplicably bizarre game for Wii I’ve ever seen

  • Respectful Yo Mama Jokes

    Yo mama is so attractive she could be on the cover of Prevention.

  • Introduction to Microcontroller Programming: The Flatulometer

    The inspiration for this project was to determine who could generate the worst flatulence measurable in a personally unbiased manner.

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