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Video: A walkthrough Apple's Grand Central Terminal store
A three-minute YouTube tour, shot during Apple's (AAPL) press preview Wednesday, two days before the grand opening scheduled for Friday Dec. 9 at 10 a.m. (Free T-shirts for the first 4,000 visitors.)
The space was occupied today only by Apple staffers and representatives of the media. It may never be so empty again.
See also our report from inside the store here and Apple's press release here.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 7, 2011 1:19 PM ETPosted in: Apple, Apple Store, Grand Central Terminal, Grand opening, New York City, Retailing, YouTube -
Today in Tech: Google creating Amazon Prime competitor
Fortune's curated selection of newsworthy tech stories from the last 24 hours. Sign up to get the round-up delivered to you every day.
* Is Google (GOOG) working on an Amazon Prime competitor? The Wall Street Journal reports that the Internet giant wants to tackle Amazon's successful $79-a-year program, which offers features like expedited shipping, by letting its own users order goods online and receive them within a day. (The Wall MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Dec 2, 2011 10:20 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Nokia's Hail Mary
Fortune's curated selection of newsworthy tech stories from the last 24 hours. Sign up to get the round-up delivered to you every day.
* As previously rumored, Nokia (NOK) announced two new Windows-based smartphones yesterday: the Lumia 800 and the cheaper Lumia 710, both destined for parts of Europe and Asia, with other models presumably coming stateside early next year. Dave Goldman over at CNNMoney has the inside scoop. (CNNMoney)
* Apple (AAPL) filed its MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 27, 2011 3:30 AM ETPosted in: Amazon, Andrew Mason, Apple, BitTorrent, Carol Bartz, Google, Groupon, Kindle Fire, Netflix, Nokia, Yahoo, YouTube -
Videos: iPhone 4S launches around the world
Waitin', whoopin' and hollerin' in seven countries and four languages
Apple (AAPL) launched the iPhone 4S Friday in Australia, Japan, Germany, France, the U.K., Canada and the U.S.
Videos below the fold as they come in.
See also our report from New York City, 17 days in the iPhone line: Wet, cold and smelling like Cheetos.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 14, 2011 4:39 AM ET -
30th birthday video: Steve Jobs as a toddler, as a biker, as FDR
Rare images surface in a home movie made by his Apple co-workers in 1985
Alerted of its existence by some early Apple (AAPL) employees, Technologizer's Harry McCracken has unearthed a five-minute home movie made by Steve Jobs' co-workers on the occasion of his 30th birthday: Feb. 24, 1985.
The video is a time-capsule from an era when IBM was enemy No. 1 and John Sculley was still his friend. It's filled with images MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 7, 2011 5:12 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Bob Dylan, Ella Fitzgerald, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry McCracken, Technologizer, YouTube -
Today in Tech: Sprint betting billions on next iPhone
Fortune's curated selection of newsworthy tech stories from the last 24 hours. Sign up to get the newsletter delivered to you every day.
* Sprint (S) is betting billions that the next Apple smartphone will boost its business. The number 3 mobile network in the U.S. reportedly committed to buy more than 30 million iPhones and doesn't expect to make money off the deal until 2014. (The Wall Street Journal)
* Speaking of, Apple (AAPL) finally reveals MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 4, 2011 3:30 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Google, iPhone, iPhone 5, Kindle Fire, MG Siegler, Mike Arrington, Napster, Rhapsody, Sprint, TypeKit, YouTube -
Today in Tech: Why Facebook's automatic sharing is the future
Fortune's curated selection of newsworthy tech stories from the weekend. Sign up to get the newsletter delivered to you every day.
* Why Google's grip on users is as firm as it is invisible, despite the company's argument that "the competition is only one click away." (Silicon Valley)
* What to watch for at Apple's iPhone event this Tuesday in Cupertino, Calif. (Fortune)
* Alibaba CEO Jack Ma expressed interest in buying all of Yahoo (YHOO). (CNNMoney)
* The once-strong U.S. MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 3, 2011 3:30 AM ET -
A Stevie Wonder shout-out for an ailing Steve Jobs
Praised for trying to make Apple's iOS devices accessible to people with disabilities
At a Stevie Wonder tribute in Los Angeles' Echo Park last Saturday, the 22-time Grammy winner took the stage briefly to sing a few bars and talk to the audience about Sept. 11, the power of love and Apple's (AAPL) Steve Jobs:
"And I want you all to give a hand to someone that you know whose health is MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 15, 2011 7:04 PM ET -
Hitler's TouchPad
A news event worthy of a "Downfall" parody (Warning: not safe for office viewing)
I know. I know.
Parodies of Oliver Hirschbiegel's "Downfall" are among the stalest jokes on YouTube. The film's original subtitles have been rewritten to cover everything from Kanye West's diss of Taylor Swift to Apple's (AAPL) rejection of the Fuhrer's Flash app.
But this one -- from the 3:49 scene when Hitler learns that the war is truly lost -- MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 22, 2011 1:01 PM ETPosted in: Adolf Hitler, Apple, Downfall, Fuhrer, Hewlett-Packard, Hitler, HP, Kanye West, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Taylor Swift, TouchPad, YouTube -
Face it, Google. You're a portal.
Google built its success on a simple search box that disrupted that old-line business, the web portal. So why is it working so hard to become one itself?
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
FORTUNE -- Google is becoming all things online. Its quest to organize all the world's information has pushed it beyond the search box. Google saw that people loved Yelp, so it aggregated reviews. It saw how we took to group-buying MORE
Aug 17, 2011 5:00 AM ET
