Archive | January 20th, 2010
Amazon poised to launch app store for the Kindle
Taking a page right out of Apple’s playbook, Amazon on Thursday will announce its plans to open up the Kindle platform for developers, according to a late breaking report from the New York Times. Much like Apple, Amazon will soon unveil an SDK that will enable developers to create what Amazon is terming “active content” […]
Continue reading...Apple envisions Tablet as family device; Planning web based version of iTunes
20. January 2010
Over the past few months, the WSJ has had a number of Apple related scoops pertaining to anything from the iPhone to the health concerns surrounding Steve Jobs. Often times, these scoops are nothing more than controlled leaks disseminated out into the public by the puppet masters at Apple. A few weeks ago, John Matellaro […]
Continue reading...Does Steve Jobs hate Google CEO Eric Schmidt? More on the Bing/iPhone story…
20. January 2010
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In an interesting post on CNBC, Jim Goldman highlights some fascinating nuggets of information about recent reports that Apple is considering making Bing the default search engine on the iPhone, at the obvious expense of Google. Citing a source familiar with the ongoing “search dynamics” between Microsoft and Apple, Goldman gives us a little bit of background as […]
Continue reading...Despite Sports Illustrated demo, don’t expect Time Inc. at next week’s Apple event
20. January 2010
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Not too long ago, Time inc. released a concept video depicting how an issue of Sports Illustrated might appear on a tablet device. This naturally got people thinking that the demo was made with Apple’s upcoming tablet in mind. But now Time has told All Things D that it has nothing to showcase at next […]
Continue reading...Amazon makes pre-emptive strike against Apple Tablet
20. January 2010
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With Apple’s Tablet announcment just 1 week away, Amazon today announced a change to its royalty program for authors on the Kindle platform, presumably in an effort to combat what it sees as a threat from Apple’s latest, and yet still un-announced product. Over the past few weeks, we’ve heard rumblings that Apple is looking […]
Continue reading...Will Bing be the default search engine on the iPhone?
20. January 2010
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I sure as hell hope not, and while Apple is clearly beefing with Google these days, Google certainly is the top choice when it comes to search engines and hopefully Apple won’t compromise on quality just to stick it to Google. But BusinessWeek reported last night that Apple and Microsoft are in talks to do […]
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20. January 2010
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