Posted on October 23, 2008 at 6:45 am
Rob Enderle warns people with iPhones that flashing their phones, or adding “sent from my iPhone” to their email signature may send the wrong message in today’s troubled economy.
“You can walk around and be insane, and people will think you’re just another person with a headset,” Enderle says, revealing a strategy that has worked for [...]
Posted on September 25, 2008 at 6:54 am
11:15pm, Day one - My Hotel Room: Finish talking with wife on iChat. Set alarm on cell phone to wake me up at 6:00AM.
3:25 am, Day two - My Hotel Room: Dream that cats have taken over planet. All requests for food are must be phrased in the form of “I can has soup?” (really)1
6:30 [...]
Posted on September 24, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Since I didn’t have free access on campus, I wrote my notes for the day on paper, and I’m putting them here now.
8:15 - Salt Lake City: Waiting for my plane to board. A man across the isle of seats from me is reading about the launch of the new G1 Phone. I can tell [...]
Posted on September 16, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Despite non-true rumors that the 1st-Gen iPod Classics would be getting the Genius feature, there’s a group of iPod owners out there that just ain’t happy.
“We Shuffle owners feel left out,” said S. Huffle, owner of every iPod Shuffle since the one that looked like gum. “We always get the short end of the stick. [...]
Posted on September 9, 2008 at 11:29 am
We’re live here in, well, our office, and covering Apple’s groundbreaking event.
Steve looks like he always does.
He’s not dead.
iTunes 8 will tell a “genius in the cloud” that you want to make playlists based on the music of Zamfir and give you a list of songs that will sound good in a mix with pan [...]
Posted on September 6, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Sure, everyone’s seen the grainy picture of the what is supposed to be the new iPod Nano, but nobody seems to ask “why is that picture so grainy?”
Until Now.
We asked. We dug. We searched. We combed the beaches, we combed our hair, we went to distant corners of our house and the Internet and came [...]
Posted on August 20, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Since the launch of the new Mobile Me platform Apple has extended all users’ accounts by at least 90 days, as an apology for the flawed and awkward rollout process. But that just isn’t enough for Steve Jobs, who in a recent meeting decided that the executive board of Apple need to take this “to [...]
Posted on July 24, 2008 at 11:30 am
Microsoft has launched the first wave of their $300 million+ advertising campaign set to counter the “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” ads in an unlikely form.
“How’s that game playing going, Mac freaks?” asks Steve Ballmer in a form letter sent to every “@apple.com” email address. “Oh, and Squeak? Your Open Source software sucks! I [...]
Posted on July 12, 2008 at 11:30 am
As an apology for not posting the Friday iFAQ on Friday, I present to you: Vista Bullying
In a widely reported move,1 Microsoft has announced that the “Vista Bullying stops here”. And we here at CANS think it’s about time, too. I mean, look at poor little Microsoft, barely making enough money to keep every single [...]
Posted on July 9, 2008 at 11:30 am
All around the world, people are already standing in line, hoping to be the first to use Mobile Me, Apple’s latest revision of its online storage and synchronization tools.
Which is odd, because they can just buy a .Mac membership and it will work when Mobile Me is launched possibly later tonight. But still they line [...]