Her hair is red, her eyes dark brown, her physique slim. She stands 5'2" in her stocking feet and weighs 113 lbs. in her birthday suit.
Her name is Lauren De Long, and she set a million geek hearts aflutter with her spunky performance in the now famous "you find it, you keep it" PC ad, in which she chose an HP (HPQ) Pavilion running Microsoft (MSFT) Windows Vista Home Edition MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 31, 2009 5:12 PM ET
For iPhone owners who get sticker shock from a 99-cent application, Wired.com's Brian X. Chen has posted a round-up that points readers to a variety of websites where users can download thousands of apps for free.
According to Chen, Apple's (AAPL) iTunes App Store is becoming an increasingly juicy target for software pirates. He cites an estimate by the research firm Medialets that 20% of the store's titles have already been MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 31, 2009 11:34 AM ET
Skype, the world's most popular program for making free overseas phone calls over the Internet, was released as a free download to Apple's (AAPL) iPhone and iPod touch on Monday. You can get it here.
This could be big. How big? Let's look at the numbers.
In 2008, Skype users spent 33 billion minutes talking to people in other countries, representing 8% of all international voice traffic, according to TeleGeography Research. (link)
That MORE
Her name is "Lauren" and she's making the Apple (AAPL) guys nuts.
She's the young, hip, Volkswagen-driving redhead who stars in the latest Microsoft's (MSFT) TV campaign. Told that if she can find a 17-inch laptop for under $1,000 she can keep it, Lauren ends up -- to the Mac aficionados' dismay -- with an HP (HPQ) running Windows Vista.
"I would have to double my budget, which isn't feasible," Lauren says MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 28, 2009 1:24 PM ET
Staffers at Apple's (AAPL) flagship Fifth Avenue store in New York City confirm that as of Thursday at 8 a.m., customers are now permitted to buy unlimited quantities of iPhones without an AT&T contract -- the very thing the company was working so hard to prevent in late 2007 when the devices were being snapped up in large quantities to be unlocked and re-sold in overseas markets. (See here.)
The new MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 27, 2009 8:52 AM ET
Apple (AAPL) mailed out invitations on Thursday for its 2009 World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) -- the premier event for anyone working on software for the Mac, iPhone or iPod touch.
It's scheduled for June 8 - 12 in San Francisco's Moscone Center -- neatly filling the mysterious "Corporate Meeting" slot reserved for those days on the Moscone Center site -- and it promises to be a big one.
Among the events MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 26, 2009 3:32 PM ET
Shortly before 4 p.m. EDT on Thursday, eight months after it opened with 500 applications for the iPhone and iPod touch, Apple's (AAPL) App Store passed the 30,000 mark, according to the count maintained by 148Apps, which updates its list automatically.
That's up from 28,000 apps nine days ago and considerably higher than the official figure of 25,000 that Apple has been using.
But the flood of new titles seems to have MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 26, 2009 8:48 AM ET
Almost as curious as the fact that China Unicom has started advertising Apple's (AAPL) iPhone on its Shanghai website -- even though no agreement to sell the device in China has been announced -- are some of the advanced features Unicom is promoting.
As Dan Butterfield reported early Wednesday on his iPhonAsia website, these include several functions that aren't officially available on current model iPhones, including:
Wave-to-pay
Mobile TV
Tethering (connecting a laptop to MORE
Almost as curious as the fact that China Unicom has started advertising Apple's (AAPL) iPhone on its Shanghai website -- even though no agreement to sell the device in China has been announced -- are some of the advanced features Unicom is promoting.
As Dan Butterfield reported early Wednesday on his iPhonAsia website, these include several functions that aren't officially available on current model iPhones, including:
Wave-to-pay
Mobile TV
Tethering (connecting a laptop to MORE
Although no deal has been announced, China Unicom posted ads for Apple's (AAPL) iPhone - including specifications for the model now on sale in nearly 80 countries - on an official China Unicom website.
The move follows reports last week of a breakthrough in the long running negotiations that have pitted China Unicom against its rival, China Mobile -- the world's largest cell phone carrier -- for exclusive rights to sell MORE
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