What Steve Jobs has up his sleeve

A leading Apple analyst offers his Worldwide Developers Conference checklist

Source: Apple Inc.

The developers conference that begins June 7 is likely to be "a non-event" for Apple's (AAPL) share price, according to Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, with few surprises.

But in the note to clients he issued Wednesday he adds that the new iPhone he expects Steve Jobs to introduce will likely drive unit sales beyond Wall Street's targets -- MORE

30% of netbook shoppers got an iPad

But most went ahead and bought the netbook, according to a Retrevo "pulse report"

Source: Retrevo

Below: The leanings of shoppers who have to choose between a netbook and Apple's (AAPL) tablet computer this year.

How Kindle will compete with the iPad

By not competing, Jeff Bezos tells stockholders at Amazon's annual meeting

Although Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle has the largest share of the U.S. e-reader market -- 62%, according to a ChangeWave survey conducted in early May -- the iPad is gaining fast.

In the same survey -- fielded only a month or so after the iPad went on sale, Apple's (AAPL) tablet computer was already in the hands of 16% of the 245 MORE

Intel confuses GoogleTV brand with Smart TV Initiative

By pushing its own 'Smart TV initiative' with advertising and promotions, Intel will be diluting the GoogleTV brand and hurting its chances of success.

Intel Advertising

Intel this week started advertising its 'Smart TV ' platform for GoogleTV products.  The move is meant to bolster Intel's profile in the set top box game, but with only one product line out, GoogleTV, it may just confuse consumers.

It seems clear by this initiative MORE

Dell details Streak tablet, includes Google Voice

Dell today detailed its upcoming Dell Streak (Mini 5) Android tablet with some interesting details.

The device will be released initially in the UK on O2 with follow-up rollouts in the US and elsewhere starting later this summer.  What's interesting about this device is that it isn't being branded as a 'Smartphone' and may not be sold with voice options, even though it contains 3G hardware for data (and in the MORE

Microsoft CEO: True U.S. recovery should include the poor

Sustained unemployment would eventually put a damper on the market's early gains

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says so far, the U.S. recovery has mostly helped the affluent. Photo: Jon Fortt.

So far the main beneficiaries in the nascent recovery have been well-off, says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. For things to really bounce back, things need to get better for everyone else.

I caught up with Ballmer at Microsoft's (MSFT) Redmond headquarters last MORE

Oscar-winning director does iPhone ads

Leaks by tweeting actors up for parts say Sam Mendes is filming a series of video chats

Mendes in action. Photo: ScreenCrave

The buzz in Hollywood and Silicon Valley is that the TV ads for Apple's next iPhone are being shot by Sam Mendes, the Academy Award-winning director and husband of actress Kate Winslet (the couple are currently separated).

According to Engadget, citing an unnamed "trusted source" and a couple of actor-tweets, MORE

Another Gizmodo score: the Motorola Shadow

Since it's only an Android phone though, don't expect the police to kick down any doors.

It is pretty striking how dissimilar Apple leaks are compared to the rest of the tech industry. Details of the Motorola Shadow have been leaking for the past few weeks, but very few outside of the gadget community seem to care.  When Apple's (AAPL) next iPhone gets leaked, the world gets flipped upside down.

According MORE

6 million to flee AT&T for Verizon iPhone?

That's the estimate of one Wall Street analyst, but things might not be that bad

AT&T (T) could lose 40% -- or 6 million of its estimated 15 million iPhone customers -- when and if Apple (AAPL) makes a model of its smartphone that runs on Verizon's (VZ) cellular network, according to a note to clients issued Tuesday by Davenport & Company' Drake Johnstone.

But several factors mitigate against a wholesale migration:

GoogleTV and iPad share the same graphics processor technology

Although the two devices from the new tech rivals serve very different purposes, on the chip level, they have a lot in common.

GoogleTV is manufactured by Logitech and Sony and contains a System on Chip (SoC) designed by Intel.  The iPad's SoC is an ARM design made by Apple (though manufacturing is outsourced to Samsung).  However, both of these SoCs use a PowerVR graphics processor from a small UK-based company MORE