And he probably didn't have to wait in line to get it
From MarketWatch:
"I took my BlackBerry off for this show, because I didn't want it going off, and that would be really embarrassing," Obama said at a town hall meeting hosted by Spanish-language network Univision (the network will broadcast the town hall on Monday night). "But usually I carry a BlackBerry around," Obama told anchor Jorge MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 28, 2011 6:27 PM ET
Perhaps the question analysts should be asking is how fast could it build them?
iPhone ramp-ups. Source: Asymco. Click to enlarge.
When estimating unit sales in a highly competitive market -- like computers or cell phones -- the traditional method is to sample some part of the sales channel and use that as a proxy for the broader market.
In a post entitled "Predicting iPhone sales for dummies," Asymco's Horace Dediu makes MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 28, 2011 1:58 PM ETGoogle has long been a media company in denial. Now it's beefing up YouTube to become a studio system for a new era of content production. Keyboard cat, meet the evening news. By Dan Mitchell, contributor
For more than half a decade, people have been debating whether Google is a media company. The question is ultimately pointless, though it keeps being asked in large part because every time it MORE Mar 28, 2011 1:24 PM ET
James Gosling joins Google as it fights Oracle over Java patents.
Gosling in 2008, CC License
Google (GOOG) has picked up a major player in the history of Java in James Gosling today.
Gosling left Sun/Oracle (ORCL) in April, saying on his blog,
"As to why I left, it's difficult to answer: Just about anything I could say that would be accurate and honest would do more harm than good. The hardest part is no MORE
Seth Weintraub - Mar 28, 2011 1:13 PM ETThe group messaging startup will offer slickly branded groups promoting bands, TV shows, and concerts. In other words: sponsors. Will users love or loathe the idea?
By Daniel Roberts, reporter
GroupMe sponsored groups on the iPhone
At the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin this month, while speaking about the recent heavy influx of platforms that offer group text messaging, Ted Livingston, CEO of KIK, told CNNmoney, "The four big [companies] that all MORE
Mar 28, 2011 9:00 AM ET
Hoping to cash in on Apple's shortage by hawking Xooms, PlayBooks and Streaks
Source: Staples
"Your tablet is waiting."
That was the subject line of the e-mail that landed in my inbox at 4:36 a.m. Monday.
It came as a surprise to me, because the last time I checked, the iPad 2 that I finally broke down and ordered on March 23 wasn't scheduled to ship until April 21.
So I took the bait, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 28, 2011 6:39 AM ET
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"50% of Tweets consumed are generated by just 20K elite users" - Yahoo research
Inside the Zynga offices, a company which offers free haircuts, iPads, and quarterly bonuses. Photo: JP Mangalindan/Fortune
California added 100,000 new jobs in February, thanks in large part to Silicon Valley. In fact, MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Mar 28, 2011 5:00 AM ET
A launch perfectly timed to coincide with the end of Apple's second fiscal quarter
Shoppers queued up for the iPad 2 in London. Image: onlygeek
Reports are still drifting in, but it seems likely that most of the 25 countries where Apple (AAPL) launched the iPad 2 on Friday had run out of product by Saturday afternoon.
Pocket-lint reported Saturday that the two flagship Apple Stores in London -- Regent Street and MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 27, 2011 7:36 AM ET
The last of five sections of the queue outside Apple's Regent Street store Friday. Video: onlygeek via YouTube
"I only need to say this one sentence to get across the magnitude of this launch," wrote Julian Alexander (AKA Tommo_UK) on Investor Village's AAPL Sanity board Friday evening:
"The lines were bigger than for ANY launch, I have ever seen, for anything, anywhere. Including for any iPhone launched to-date or last year's MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 26, 2011 11:10 AM ET
Winning a skirmish at the ITC is not the same as winning a war. Apple vs. Nokia take note.
Source: FOSS Patents
"Kodak Wins a Round in $1 Billion Apple, RIM Patent Dispute" -- Bloomberg News
Traders were pretty quick to cash in on that headline. Kodak's (EK) battered stock opened Friday at $3.30 a share and jumped nearly 25% to $4.12 in after-hours trading, as if those $1 billion were already MORE
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