The March edition of Apple’s “eNews for Education” newsletter naturally pimps the company’s newest desktop hardware, including the new iMac, Mac mini, and Mac Pro lines. The scant information Apple includes suggests the company offers a 17″ iMac model for just $899. Except, Apple hasn’t offered a 17″ iMac since the move from the white polycarbonate enclosures to aluminum and black polycarbonate enclosures two years ago.
Although the current maximum download speed of an iPhone 3G on AT&T’s network is faster than the EDGE maximum, iPhone owners have been known to grouse about the 3G performance of their devices from time to time. That’s probably going to change when a new iPhone model appears, though. Silicon Alley Insider is reporting that a “plugged-in source” has pointed to a “significantly faster” connection for the next revision of the iPhone.
There were three bits of mobile news that dropped at the end of last week, and each one sheds some light on the other. The first and perhaps most significant announcement was Sony’s revelation that it expects its mobile sales to be down 50 percent sequentially in the first quarter of this year (ending in March), which, if true, would underperform analysts’ already abysmal expectations for the company.
The March edition of Apple’s “eNews for Education” newsletter naturally pimps the company’s newest desktop hardware, including the new iMac, Mac mini, and Mac Pro lines. The scant information Apple includes suggests the company offers a 17″ iMac model for just $899. Except, Apple hasn’t offered a 17″ iMac since the move from the white polycarbonate enclosures to aluminum and black polycarbonate enclosures two years ago.
The March edition of Apple’s “eNews for Education” newsletter naturally pimps the company’s newest desktop hardware, including the new iMac, Mac mini, and Mac Pro lines. The scant information Apple includes suggests the company offers a 17″ iMac model for just $899. Except, Apple hasn’t offered a 17″ iMac since the move from the white polycarbonate enclosures to aluminum and black polycarbonate enclosures two years ago.
Happy iPhone 3.0 week! The world got a preview of what to expect from Apple’s next version of the iPhone OS, but that’s not all that happened. Talk about iPhone price drops, iTunes 8.1, and even an iLife review made it into the top Apple news for the week, so read on:
The equinox has arrived, meaning a march towards warmer temps in the Northern Hemisphere and the slow descent into winter south of the equator. Here are some of the week’s hottest stories to contemplate as you celebrate or mourn.
When a new market of small-factor computers became very popular last year, Microsoft wasn’t feeling too hot. Linux and Windows XP were being used, and the consumers buying these PCs were not able to take advantage of all the hard work that had gone into Vista. It didn’t matter that with Vista SP1, the operating system was running better than its XP on higher-end machines. New computers don’t necessarily mean better, faster, stronger anymore. Netbooks mean smaller, cheaper, lighter, and many consumers are quite happy to use XP, the operating system they had gotten used to during Vista’s unusually long development. Microsoft simply did not foresee this new trend occurring when it was working on Vista; the demand for the inexpensive netbooks began to skyrocket even before the economic downturn.
British mobile carrier O2 has offered no-cost subsidized iPhones since the launch of the iPhone 3G last July, though you had to agree to the highest-cost plans and an 18-month contract. The company has announced today, however, that new 24-month contracts, with lower “tariffs” (as they are called in the UK), will qualify for a free iPhone.
TomTom has responded in kind to a patent infringement lawsuit from Microsoft, accusing Microsoft of infringing on three of its patents related to the company’s in-car navigation software—ones that are different than those Microsoft has sued TomTom over. TomTom’s suit is just the latest in the spat between the two companies, though they may eventually agree to license the patents to each other in exchange for a mutual settlement.
