Archive for May, 2008
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Apple Changes Course: Two iPhone Carriers In One Market
Apple today announced a change in the traditional iPhone game plan by announcing a deal with Vodaphone, as well as Telecom Italia, as reported by Marketwatch. Vodaphone will carry the phone in 10 European markets. Along with Vodaphone, Telecom Italia will also sell the phone in Italy.
This is unusual for Apple, which has so far [...]
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Now That I’ve Stolen This Car, I Really Want That MP3 I’m Hearing
Your wish (?) has now come true. That is if you’re playing Rockstar Games‘ new Grand Theft Auto IV. Wired has some more deets behind the deal that Rockstar has struck up with Amazon.
But the gist of it is, when you’re playing the game you can fire up your mobile, dial a special number, and [...]
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Setting My Sights on a $1B Home
I’m getting tired of living in a three-bedroom house with a single car garage. Specifically, I’m not conent to live in a $1M home–there must be about 1 on each block in my neighborhood. $1M is chump-change.
I long for a house with 6-stories of parking garage. And a modest split-level can only [...]
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Step in time
Fox, Warner Bros., Paramount, Sony, and Universal are all going to join up to where Disney has been for months. All the major studios will be “making all their new releases available through the iTunes Store… from the moment their DVD and Blu-ray counterparts hit store shelves.”
I had mentioned earlier that Fox and Paramount were [...]
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Microsoft Silverlight to Star In 2008 Olympics
ZDNet News ran an article with details of NBC’s upcoming revamp of NBCOlympics.com and the goal of making it an online success, including live Web casts of the events plus archived footage.
The site will launch with an improved video player and other enhancements in time for the start of the 2008 Olympic games. Over the course of the games, 2200 [...]