Category: Apple

iPhone in Canada … June 29th

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Did you hear it here first?

Globe and Mail had no date on the Canadian release just yesterday:

The U.S. launch date was confirmed by a company spokesman. Apple plans to sell the iPhone in Europe and Japan eventually, but has not announced specific dates.

As for Canada, technology blogs speculate Rogers Wireless has inked an agreement with Apple to offer the device, though the carrier has made no official announcement regarding availability.

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Right now the blogosphere is abuzz with the rumour Rogers will jump into the feeding frenzy the same day as in the USA.

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Jobs and Gates – together again

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In what was certainly the marquee event at this year’s D: All Things Digital conference, an annual gathering coordinated by the Wall Street Journal, Steve Jobs shared the stage with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates in a joint appearance discussing the technology industry’s past while looking ahead to its future.

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The evening began with history repeating itself in the form of videos originally recorded in 1984, 1991 and 1997, in which the two men shared a stage. The video ended with Jobs and Gates entering from opposite ends of the D: All Things Digital stage.

Macworld: News: Live Coverage: Jobs and Gates joint appearance

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Imus, Limbaugh, Hannity – which to push first?

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In Canada I never hear a thing from American right wing politically oriented talk radio personalities.

But driving a rent-a-car in the States, they are unavoidable.

Pandering to racism, misogyny, and homophobia is profitable in the USA.

Seems to me these rogue commentators, getting away with things not allowed on TV, will say whatever brings in the ratings. Talk radio is all about the money.

Don Imus I did not know until his recent and ridiculous scandalous dismissal. (He’ll be back bigger than ever, no doubt. Perhaps on satellite.)

Sounds like Imus was probably best of breed of rabid radio shock jocks. He garnered some praise from some pretty credible people.

Rush Limbaugh, of course, the Big Fat Idiot, has some folksy charm. I’ve never heard him less intelligible on this last trip. Is Rush “losing it”?

I had never actually heard Sean Hannity. I knew he was widely ridiculed by Jon Stewart and others.

Then I happened to see him debate the Mayor of Salt Lake City on TV. Hannity came off second best. Unprepared, disorganized and … as a good looking idiot.

Bill O’Reilly I have to spare because he inspires Stephen Colbert’s great comedy.

com.jpgThe first one I’d push off a cliff is still … Dr. Laura.

She’s a dangerous hypocrite.

Image from Dr. Laura Naked.

think different

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Here’s to the crazy ones.

The misfits.

The rebels.

The troublemakers.

The round pegs in the square holes.

The ones who see things differently.

Click PLAY or watch the famous Apple ad campaign on YouTube.

The campaign debuted on September 28, 1997 and was the turning point for Apple. (If only I had bought stock September 27th.)

(via Low End Mac)

poem – Craig Tanimoto

video conference on computer

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images.jpegLast night I tried iChat, the critically acclaimed software that comes free with every new Mac.

It connects with the AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) network, though it tells me ICQ, .Mac, Google Talk and Jabber are also supported.

First Impression: iChat is lousy.

By comparison, Skype video worked far, far better. And it works Mac to PC.

Neither service is perfect. But I’ll stick to Skype for now.

“flash memory” computer coming … soon

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Apple Inc. may sell zippy notebook computers later this year that use the same type of fast memory as music players and digital cameras, driving down prices of hard disk drives, an analyst said today. In a separate report, LG Electronics Inc. is also said to be planning the release of a laptop this month that uses a hybrid (flash/spinning disk) drive.

The laptop news comes in the same week that Samsung Electronics Co. announced it was shipping its first so-called hybrid drive, which uses a combination of nonvolatile NAND flash memory and magnetic spinning disk to save on power consumption and boot-up time (see ” Samsung ships its first hybrid disk drive “). Samsung is the world’s largest maker of NAND flash memory for gadgets such as USB flash drives.

Apple hopes to introduce so-called flash memory in small computers known as subnotebooks in the second half of 2007, Shaw Wu, an analyst at American Technology Research Inc., said in investor notes yesterday and today.

A shift to flash memory for storage in place of much slower hard disk drives would eliminate one headache for consumers: lengthy start-up times when turning on computers.

Apple already uses flash memory in its iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle music players. Flash memory is lighter, uses less power and takes up less space than hard disk drives.

The hybrid race is on: Apple and LG plan flash laptops

Canada – cheapest 2GB iPod Nano

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Well, a worldwide survey was done based on the latest Apple 2GB iPod Nano in U.S. dollars and found that Brazilians pay the most for an iPod, shelling out $327.71, well above second-placed India at $222.27.

Canada was the cheapest place to buy a Nano at $144.20, while Australia ranked 19th at $172.36, cheaper than Germany ($192.46), France ($205.80), South Korea ($176.17) and China where the machine is manufactured. The U.S. was fourth cheapest at $149.

Price comparison for iPod around the world