Monday, Jan. 25, 2010
Today in Techland: The Peter Ha has landed. In San Francisco. To see Apple’s new shiny, shiny tablet. Read more about it here and here. We’ve also got podcasts, apps and a disturbing look at the porn career of Spider-Man. Yeah…
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Straight from the horse’s mouth, folks. In today’s earnings report, Steve Jobs confirmed that a new product would be announced.
“If you annualize our quarterly revenue, it’s surprising that Apple is now a $50+ billion company,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “The new products we are planning to release this year are very
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Techland’s Peter Ha, live from San Francisco, lets us know what to expect from the big Apple event Wednesday by breaking down the latest rumors.
All that and more in today’s edition of the daily Nerdcast with Peter Ha and Time.com’s Caitlin Thompson. Click on the player above to listen.
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In an effort to keep our post count down and not inundate you with rumor after rumor after rumor, I’ve decided to compile a list of rumors surrounding Apple’s upcoming event in one post.
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Here’s a “leaked ad” for Apple’s iPad. What do you think? It’s a pretty good fake, …
And so begins our on the ground coverage of Apple’s upcoming “Latest Creation” event in San Francisco. I just stopped by the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and they’re just now starting to set up the exterior. Poked around a little bit but everything is locked up pretty tight. Didn’t see anything on the inside worth taking photos of …
In a rather long-winded story published by the WSJ tonight this week, a handful of new facts have been revealed about Apple’s purported iSlate/iTablet/iPad. You know, the one that’s supposed to be announced next Wednesday in San Francisco. I’ll save you the trouble of reading the whole thing because we’ve mostly covered it all on …
Friday, Jan. 22, 2010
Today in Techland: Lev struck Twitter gold with a pretty-darn-geeky Tweet meme, Steve liked didn’t really mind saw Legion, and both Peter and Lev got schooled by an 11 year-old while playing Halo 3.
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Techland’s Peter Ha digs into what it means that Amazon is adding an apps store for the Kindle, gets psyched up about AMC planning to turn Robert Kirkman’s comic “The Walking Dead” into a TV show, lists the latest Apple tablet rumors and weighs in on whether or not you should see “Legion” this weekend.
All that and more in today’s …
With Apple’s looming Tablet launch next week and its rumored e-book deals, e-book giant Amazon is on full alert. Just yesterday, Amazon announced that it would be restructuring its royalty rates and now the NYT is reporting that Amazon is set to announce a Kindle app store today.
So what does a Kindle app store entail? Well, it …
Amazon is stepping up to the Apple plate by announcing that it will introduce a 70% royalty option program to authors and publishers.
Amazon recently announced their Digital Text Program, which it bills as “a fast and easy self-publishing tool that lets you upload and format your books for sale in the Kindle Store.”
Is it a …
Wednesday Jan. 20, 2010
Today in Techland: Superman is a dick, Lev seeks out the meaning behind Twilight and Peter brings us the news that PS3’s motion controller won’t be here until the fall. Bummer. The good news? Techland launched its very own YouTube page. You should probably subscribe to it.
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Steven James Snyder recaps his very popular top five underrated movie masterpieces, and gives details on the Q&As he has coming up with some of the filmmakers.
Meanwhile, Peter Ha explains all the rumors going around about Apple’s big event next week in San Francisco, where they’ll likely unveil their tablet, but also a few other …