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Archive for September 11th, 2007

Intel 45nm fab to open in 45 days (Stephen Shankland/CNET News.com)

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Intel 45nm fab to open in 45 days  —  SAN FRANCISCO—In 45 days, Intel will open its first high-volume facility for building chips that use a 45-nanometer manufacturing process.  —  The facility, called Fab 32, is a new one built in Chandler, Ariz., said spokesman Nick Knupffer, in an interview here at the VMworld conference.

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Apple’s Joswiak: We Don’t Hate iPhone Coders (Sascha Segan/Gearlog)

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Apple’s Joswiak: We Don’t Hate iPhone Coders  —  iPhone native application developers, take heart: Apple doesn’t hate you.  And now you have a whole new device to play with.  —  Updated 1:15 PM: I just got a call from Joswiak who wanted to make clear: “not hate” doesn’t mean “like” or “support.”

Source:   Gearlog
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NTV Hearts NYC: Pier Screenings Sept. 24 (Liz Gannes/NewTeeVee)

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

NTV Hearts NYC: Pier Screenings Sept. 24  —  Hey East Coasters!  Want to come out and watch online movies accompanied by an audience of living people rather than the solitary glow of your laptop screen?  Eat popcorn and drink beer?  You may be hipper than us geeks, but we’re not that different, are we?

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NewsCorp won’t pull videos from iTunes (Chris Borowski/Reuters)

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

NewsCorp won’t pull videos from iTunes  —  WARSAW (Reuters) - News Corp. will not pull its television shows from Apple’s iTunes as rival media group NBC Universal has done over a pricing dispute, President Peter Chernin said in an interview on Tuesday.  —  Many sector watchers expected News Corp …

Source:   Reuters
Author:   Chris Borowski
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Sprint’s Q4 lineup: Rumor, Centro, Touch, and Pearl 8130 (Thomas Ricker/Engadget)

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Sprint’s Q4 lineup: Rumor, Centro, Touch, and Pearl 8130  —  What started as a trickle of unofficially official shots from Sprint’s Q4 pipeline has suddenly become a deluge.  Check the LG Rumor, Touch (aka, Vogue), and Blackberry Pearl 8130 all dressed up with Sprint logos and sales-goon positioning points for a Q4 launch.

Source:   Engadget
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Transfer Ringtones With MakeiPhoneRingtone (Paul/Rogue Amoeba)

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Transfer Ringtones With MakeiPhoneRingtone  —  Yesterday I posted about using Fission to create ringtones for the iPhone.  Editing with Fission is straightforward, but getting the resulting files onto the iPhone is a bit tricky.  The processes for both iTunes 7.4 and iTunes 7.4.1 work, but they’re not simple.

Source:   Rogue Amoeba - Quality Audio Software […]

Report: Price Cut Bumped iPhone Sales Three-Fold (Philip Elmer-DeWitt/Apple 2.0)

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Report: Price Cut Bumped iPhone Sales Three-Fold  —  Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster, whose 50-hour survey of Apple (AAPL) stores produced the most definitive estimate of iPhone sales to date, has combined his data with yesterday’s report that Apple sold its 1 millionth iPhone on Sunday to calculate the effect of last week’s 33% price cut.

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Report: Price Cut Bumped iPhone Sales 300% (Philip Elmer-DeWitt/Apple 2.0)

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Report: Price Cut Bumped iPhone Sales 300%  —  Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster, whose 50-hour survey of Apple (AAPL) stores produced the most definitive estimate of iPhone sales to date, has combined his data with yesterday’s report that Apple sold its 1 millionth iPhone on Sunday to calculate the effect of last week’s 33% price cut.

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Apple confirms: iPod touch cannot add calendar appointments (Ryan Block/Engadget)

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Apple confirms: iPod touch cannot add calendar appointments  —  Late last night some eagle-eyed Engadget readers spotted some disparities in Apple’s international sites, with some claiming the iPod touch would be able add calendar appointments with its calendar app, and others omitting that language.

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Ryan Block
Link:   http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/10/apple-confirms…

Facebook ‘costs businesses dear’ (BBC)

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Facebook ‘costs businesses dear’  —  Workers who spend time on sites such as Facebook could be costing firms over £130m a day, a study has calculated.  —  According to employment law firm Peninsula, 233 million hours are lost every month as a result of employees “wasting time” on social networking.

Source:   BBC
Link:   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6989100.stm