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Today in Tech: Steve Jobs on 'LocationGate,' Google video chat arrives
April 29, 2011: 6:30 AM ETA curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web. Sign up to get the newsletter delivered to you everyday.
Microsoft's fiscal third quarter figures are out: profits jumped 31% and sales inched up to $16.4 billion, but several analysts noted that revenue from the division that includes the Windows operating system actually fell 4% to almost $4.5 billion, likely due in part to the overall decline in worldwide PC sales and rise of the iPad. (New York Times and eWeek)- All Things D snagged a rare interview with Steve Jobs, who weighed in on how the iPhone does (and doesn't) use location information. (All Things D)
- Redbox is officially getting into videogames. Starting June 17, the company's 26,000-plus kiosks around the country will offer PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii game rentals for $2 a day. (Engadget)
- Google Talk video chat is here. Over the next few weeks, the Internet giant will roll out an updated Google Talk with video chat, starting with the Nexus S and making its way to tablets and Gmail. Unlike Apple's FaceTime feature which only operates over WiFi, Google's version will run on 3G and 4G connections, too. Check out the demo video below. (VentureBeat) More
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Hundreds line up for iPad 2 in Tokyo
The first video shows a queue three city blocks long for Japan's post-tsunami launch
Earthquakes, a tsunami and a few nuclear meltdowns don't seem to have cooled the ardor of Japanese Apple (AAPL) enthusiasts for the iPad 2, which launched Thursday after a five week postponement.
The first customers took their place on line at 8 p.m. Wednesday and withstood a night of heavy rain, according to the Wall Street Journal. A MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 28, 2011 11:00 AM ETPosted in: Apple, iPad, iPad 2, iPhone, Japan, Tablets, Tsunami, Wall Street Journal, White iPhone, YouTube -
The white iPhone is here
Apple's most-delayed product in memory finally appears in the company's online store
"INT. Early Morning, Today. The Lobby Bar of a Top-Tier Las Vegas Casino Resort. The White iPhone 4 is slumped back in a chair, alone, playing a table-top video poker machine embedded in the bar. He is up late, not early."
So begins John Gruber's X-rated cinematic pastiche on Daring Fireball, perhaps the only thing that's left to read -- MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 28, 2011 6:24 AM ETPosted in: All Things Digital, Apple, Daring Fireball, iPhone, John Gruber, Mobile, Philip Schiller, Steve Jobs, White iPhone -
Today in Tech: YouTube's movies on demand, Nintendo's new console confirmed
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Starting today, Facebook is testing its Groupon-like online discount effort, Deals, in five cities -- Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, San Diego and San Francisco -- and says Deals will show up via email and news feed updates. The social network also announced the "Send" button, which users should think MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Apr 26, 2011 6:30 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Facebook, iPhone, iTunes, Netflix, Nintendo, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Steve Jobs, White iPhone, Yahoo, YouTube, Zynga -
Does the white iPhone matter?
One analyst, anticipating a 100+ point run-up over the next 3-5 months, believes it does
"The purchase of consumer electronic devices is not always a completely rational decision, and people buy Apple products for many different reasons, including status, aesthetics, functionality, quality and the "cool factor."
So wrote Ticonderoga's Brian White in a note to clients Monday, taking his cue from an AppleInsider report that Apple (AAPL) began shipping white iPhones to MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 25, 2011 11:46 AM ET -
Today in Tech: RIM PlayBook reviews, Twitter's troubles
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Early reviews of Research in Motion's 7-inch PlayBook tablet are in, and while both publications found features to like -- a fast, intuitive operating system and user interface courtesy of QNX, understated and solid hardware -- Engadget found the PlayBook's inability to run basic email, contacts and calendar-related MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Apr 14, 2011 5:05 AM ETPosted in: Apple, BlackBerry, BlackBerry Playbook, Facebook, Google, iPad, iPhone 4, QNX, Research in Motion, Twitter, White iPhone -
Today in Tech: iPad 2 reviews, AOL layoffs today
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AOL plans to layoff several hundred employees starting today in editorial and other media product groups, as well as jobs in India -- areas like network and ad sales should remain unaffected. The move comes as AOL restructures its editorial division after MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 10, 2011 5:00 AM ET -
Today in Tech: HP-Palm tablet sneak peek, white iPhone 4
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
"It's a 'scaled-up smartphone' -- that's a bizarre product in our view." -- Apple COO Tim Cook on current Android tablets (TechCrunch)
Apple announced a record first quarter with sales of $26.7 billion, up 70.5% compared with last year, profits of $6 billion, up 77.7%, iPhone sales of 16.2 million units, up 85.8%, iPad sales of 7.33 MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jan 19, 2011 6:00 AM ETPosted in: Apple, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, HP, iPhone, Microsoft OneNote, Mobile, Palm, Universal Serial Bus, WebOS, White iPhone, white iPhone 4 -
Waiting for the great white iPhone
Like Moby Dick, the legendary albino may have more power as allegory than product
As MacWorld's Lex Friedman observed Tuesday in an article entitled White iPhone 4 available now, if you live in the future, writing new stories about Apple's (AAPL) mythical white smartphone gets harder with each delay.
Let's recap. The white iPhone 4 was ...
Announced on June 7
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 27, 2010 7:38 AM ET
Missing at the June 24 launch
Promised (by Steve Jobs himself) before the end MORE -
A white (iPhone) Christmas?
That's the question a self-described "total Apple fanboy" put to Steve Jobs
[UPDATE: The "fanboy" has now confessed that he faked his exchange with Jobs, reportedly after his father read this post. See here.]
Ah, the white iPhone 4.
Announced on June 7. Missing at the June 24 launch. Promised by the end of July by Steve Jobs himself at his July 16 "Antennagate" press conference. Pushed back to "later this year" in MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 18, 2010 10:12 AM ETPosted in: Antennagate, Apple, iPhone 4, Mark Papermaster, Mobiles, Mobiles DNA, Steve Jobs, White iPhone
