Videos: Customers queue for the new iPad around the world

• Robin Williams' impression of an iPhone in Paris

  What if Siri had a French accent -- and an attitude to match?

  If Apple (AAPL) ever opened up a Siri app store, a line of personality modules -- like the haughty Parisian Robin Williams trotted out on The Ellen Show -- could be a real money-maker.

  Via boxerconan at Apple Sanity.

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 1, 2011 3:50 PM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Ellen DeGeneres, France, iPhone 4S, Paris, Robin Williams, Siri

• The technology behind bike sharing systems

  Sharing a bike with a friend requires trust and a U-lock. Sharing 600 bicycles with the city of Boston requires technology and a big investment. Alison Cohen's Alta Bicycle Share is up for the task.

  Alison Cohen used to ride her bike 17 miles to work every day, a "ridiculous commute," she now admits, but one which gives her solid cred in her current job: president of Alta Bicycle Share, a MORE

  David Whitford, Editor At Large - May 17, 2011 11:41 AM ET
  Posted in: Bicycle sharing system, New York City, Paris, Portland Oregon, San Francisco Bay Area, United States, Washington DC, YouTube

• Video: Steve Jobs in Paris

  Spotted touring Apple's new Paris Opera store on July 3

  As Vice President Joe Biden was making his secret, unannounced Independence Day visit to Baghdad, Steve Jobs was apparently doing the same in Paris.

  Someone who looks a lot like Apple's (AAPL) CEO was spotted on July 3 checking out the company's elegant new retail store on Rue Helevy, across the street from the Paris Opera.

  The brief, 7-second video posted below (iPhone MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 7, 2010 6:33 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Apple Store, Opera, Paris, Steve Jobs

• Parisians storm Apple's newest store

  French fanboys camp out in the rain to see what Apple has wrought near the Paris Opera

  Apple's (AAPL) pitch to journalists at Thursday's press preview was that its 294th retail outlet was an Apple Store like no other. Nevertheless, its opening Saturday morning was marked by the usual fanboy frenzy -- abeit with a French accent.

  Set in a restored bank across Rue Halevy from the gilded Palais Garnier -- longtime MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 3, 2010 7:09 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Apple Store, Opera, Paris

• iPad madness in Munich

  Plus videos from the launch in Frankfurt, Milan, Tokyo, Paris, Sydney, London and Zurich

  Apple's (AAPL) international fan base greeted the iPad in nine countries Friday morning with the usual hoopla -- albeit in different accents and with various degrees of self control. The Germans, for some reason, seem to have the most fun at these events.

  Munich:

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 28, 2010 6:21 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Frankfurt, iPad, London, Munich, Paris, Rome, Stephen Fry, Tokyo, Zurich

• Apple invades France

  The opening of a retail store near the Louvre draws huge crowds in Paris

  Who says Parisians are blasé? Tout Paris, it seems, turned out Saturday morning for the opening of Apple's (AAPL) first retail outlet in France. The video posted below the fold shows lines of shoppers that stretched for blocks.

  Planning for the store, located in the Carrousel du Louvre, an upscale shopping mall beneath the Tuileries garden and adjacent MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 7, 2009 10:40 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Apple Store, Paris

• Apple Store under Louvre's glass pyramid gets the green light

  Apple's application to build a store in Paris - its first in France - has been approved, according to the French financial daily La Tribune. The location: the Carrousel du Louvre, prime retail space under the pyramid that dominates Napoleon's courtyard at the museum's grand entrance.

  According to La Tribune's brief report, Apple (AAPL) has drawn up plans to build a two-story, 715 square meter store in space previously occupied MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 5, 2008 3:54 PM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Apple Store, Apple Stores, Paris, Pyramid