Is this Steve Jobs' revenge on the bloggers who nearly ruined his Facetime demo in June?
The Venue: Yerba Buena Center. Photo: PED
Apple (AAPL) announced Wednesday that it will, for the first time in recent memory, broadcast its Sept. 1 special event over the Internet as it happens.
In the past, Apple has provided streaming videos of keynotes and other events a few hours after the fact.
Tuesday's announcement came as a MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 31, 2010 8:20 PM ET
It's Amazon vs. Apple, according to the latest reports, with Netflix in the middle
Tuesday was busy day as two of the biggest names in online retail -- Apple (AAPL) and Amazon (AMZN) -- jockeyed for position in the fast-evolving market for Internet-based television.
Both have been actively courting the major studios, including NBC Universal (GE), Time Warner (TWX), News Corp. (NWS) and Viacom (VIA-B), each for a different reason. Apple has MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 31, 2010 7:51 PM ET
Is Steve Jobs' tablet the device that finally gets Apple past the IT-department gates?
In a note to clients issued Tuesday, Think Equities' Rajesh Ghai largely avoids speculating about what Apple (AAPL) might announce at Wednesday's special event.
Instead he concentrates on the iPad, raising his sales estimates and ticking off the reasons he believes Apple's tablet could be, in his words, "the Trojan horse that finally gets Apple into the enterprise." MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 31, 2010 5:59 PM ET
Better to put your money on a new iPhone 4, according to Bookmaker.com
Image: Bookmaker.com
Given that these guys runs an online craps table and are better known for giving odds on NFL games than high-tech product releases, take this with a grain of salt.
But according to Bookmaker.com, Apple (AAPL) is much more likely to release a new version of the iPhone 4 on Wednesday than it is to announce a MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 31, 2010 4:29 PM ET
Less than a month after Mark Hurd's abrupt departure as CEO, HP is making headlines with a takeover battle and a buyback plan. How the company can continue business as usual without a leader.
The news jarred in the dog days of summer: A seemingly leaderless Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) counterbids for a company nobody's ever heard of that competitor Dell (DELL) already has agreed to buy. HP's offer for 3Par (PAR) MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Aug 31, 2010 1:42 PM ET
While we wait for Google's own web printing standard to materialize, Pogoplug has a Cloud printing solution and Cloud storage available now.
Pogoplug Biz
Pogoplug announced two new products today that will help businesses, especially those who do a lot of their work in the Cloud (*ahem Google Apps), operate with traditional file servers and printers.
Pogoplug Print is a device you connect to your USB printer. It is compatible with any MORE
Seth Weintraub - Aug 31, 2010 1:35 PM ET
Apple has summoned the press to San Francisco for another command performance
Jobs in 2009. Credit: Apple Inc.
Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs is scheduled to return to the stage Wednesday for what has become a late-summer classic: Apple's annual music-themed September special event -- its sixth since 2005.
By tradition, this is when Apple unveils its newest iPods and the latest advances in its iTunes music store, giving customers MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 31, 2010 7:00 AM ET
After an 18-year hiatus, AutoCAD returns to the platform and is coming soon to the iPad
AutoCAD for Mac beta. Source: Macstories
In an important vote of confidence in Apple's (AAPL) resurgence as a mainstream computing platform, Autodesk (ADSK) announced overnight Tuesday that it is bringing AutoCAD back to the Mac.
AutoCAD is an industrial-strength 3D modeling program for software and engineering design. According to Autodesk, its various Microsoft (MSFT) Windows configurations MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 31, 2010 5:52 AM ET
New service from Google automagically sorts your email from most important to least important.
When I get to work, I usually have about 20-50 emails waiting for me. It would be nice if I didn't have to sort through all of them to find the one or two important ones that need immediate attention or from people I care about. This is where Google's new Priority Inbox comes in.
I haven't used MORE
Seth Weintraub - Aug 31, 2010 4:18 AM ET
The seven-inch tablet due to be unveiled later this week was found in Verizon's inventory management system, meaning that it is likely to land on the carrier's lineup soon.
BGR got their hands on a picture of Verizon's inventory (right) which seems to show two different SKUs of the Android-powered Galaxy tablet.
That means there is an incredibly high probability that Verizon (VZ) will be carrying the Galaxy Tab within the next month or MORE
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