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So EA Sports was right: Manny beats Miguel

Nicholas Deleon — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:30:42 +0000

Short and to the point: Manny Pacquiao beat Miguel Cotto in round 12 on Saturday night via TKO. So EA Sports’ prediction was right in that Pacquiao won the fight.

And where was EA Sports’ UFC prediction? Oh, that’s right: it told Dana White to take a hike when he approached them about making a UFC video game back in the day. Smart move, EA.

Fight Night Round 4 (and everyone else on planet earth) predicts a Pacquiao win

Nicholas Deleon — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:30:28 +0000

I know something about MMA, but I know next to nothing about boxing. Yet even I can laugh about the latest EA Sports prediction, via Fight Night Round 4, that says that Manny Pacquiao will beat Miguel Cotto this weekend. I laugh because saying Pacquiao will win the fight is like saying the sun will rise in the morning. (Now watch Cotto knock out Pacquiao in the first.)

This is just the latest simulation that EA Sports has run with its games. The most recent one, that the Philadelphia Phillies would beat the New York Yankees in seven games didn’t exactly pan out.

EA Sports has also predicted that the Cleveland Cavaliers will win the NBA Finals this year, and that the Pittsburgh Penguins will win the Stanley Cup.

Did EA Sports already do a UEFA Champions League prediction yet? (I imagine after the seeding we’ll see a FIFA World Cup prediction.)

And now we play the waiting game.

Don’t forget to see Fedor knock out Rogers, both of EA Sports MMA, tonight

Nicholas Deleon — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:00:21 +0000

Consider this a friendly reminder. Tonight at 9pm ET on CBS (in the U.S.; I’m sure there will be plenty of streams, though, which you can find on your own) two of the big stars from EA’s upcoming EA Sports MMA video game will hit each other very hard. Fedor Emelianenko, the big Russian guy who could well be the best MMA fighter of all time (or is that Sakuraba?), will fight Brett Rogers, of whom I know nothing.

There’s actual a reasonably interesting story vis-à–vis video games and mixed martial arts. A few years ago, UFC approached EA with the idea of making a video game. UFC declined, saying that it didn’t consider MMA to be a real sport, which, let’s just say, really upset UFC president Dana White.

UFC later signed a deal with THQ to make the video game, which has been both a critical and commercial success.

The success of THQ’s game is said to have sparked EA’s interest in making its own MMA game. EA then started signing fighters to a deal, before announcing that Strikeforce would be the game’s main promotion.

So yeah, I’ll be watching Fedor tear apart Rogers tonight. If only it were easier to place bets online from the U.S!

I am spending the day watching old Fedor fights, courtesy of alt.binaries.mma. Hopefully Mr. Emelianenko comes out to that Era song again, and not some generic rock nonsense.

The beauty of this post is that maybe six of you have any idea of what I’m talking about.

Strikeforce will be the ‘premier’ MMA league in EA Sports MMA

Nicholas Deleon — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:00:28 +0000

Strikeforce (UFC’s closest competitor here in the U.S.) promotes one of the bigger fights of the year tomorrow in Fedor vs. Brett Rogers. It takes place in Chicago, which explains why EA Sports just held a press conference there to reveal more details of its upcoming MMA game, entitled EA Sports MMA. EA Sports says that Strikeforce will be the “premier” mixed martial arts league in the game, and that well-known referee “Big” John McCarthy will be in the game.

The game, which is due out for the Xbox 360 and PS3 next year, will, as such, feature Brett Rogers and other Strikeforce fighters.

In-game commentary will be provided by Frank Shamrock and Mauro Ranallo. I haven’t played an EA Sports game in three years, so I have no idea who good the commentary is these days.

Other fighters confirmed to be in the game include current UFC star Randy Couture, Gegard Mousasi, Renato Sobral, and Cung Le. (Check Wikipediafor the full list of confirmed and rumored fighters. Hopefully Alistair Overeem makes the cut. You’d think he would, being that he’s the Strikeforce heavyweight champion, even if he hasn’t defended the belt in two years.)

Presumably EA Sports MMA will now be colloquially referred to as “the Strikeforce game.” Hopefully EA can work in plenty of Dream fighters, as well as the Dream arenas.

Oh, the first trailer of the game will debut during tomorrow night’s Strikeforce show that airs on CBS at 9pm. And if you’re interested in a little backstory, check out Showtime’s 30-minute documentary on both Fedor and Rogers. Fun stuff.

These Best Buy stores will be open until midnight for Modern Warfare 2

Matt Burns — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:30:29 +0000

Are you stoked about Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2? Dude, I am, but I don’t know if I’m willing to go out at midnight on November 10 to buy the damn game. If you are, click through for the full list of Best Buy locations that will be open to support your gaming addiction.

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Alabaster
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Hoover
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Mobile
Montgomery
Oxford
Trussville

ALASKA
Anchorage

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Ahwatukee
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Camelback
Casa Grande
Chandler
E. Tucson
Fiesta Mall
Flagstaff
Goodyear
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Paradise Valley
Prescott
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S.W. Tucson
Thunderbird Rd
Tucson
Yuma

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Fort Smith
Rogers

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San Francisco
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Yorba Linda

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I-70 and Tower Rd.
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Southwest
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Winter Garden

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KANSAS
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KENTUCKY
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Veterans Blvd.
Westbank

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Southfield

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Blaine
Duluth
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Minnetonka
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Richfield
Roseville
Shakopee

MISSISSIPPI
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MISSOURI
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Columbia
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Mid Rivers Mall
South County
Watson Road

MONTANA
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Missoula

NEBRASKA
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W. Omaha

NEVADA
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Salem

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NEW MEXICO
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W Albuquerque II

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Westbury

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Monroe
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Wilmington
Wilson
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Mayfield Road
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OREGON
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Springfield

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State College
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Whitehall
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SOUTH CAROLINA
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Greenville
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Two Notch

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Rivergate

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Price Plaza
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Rosenberg
San Angelo
San Antonio
San Marcos
So. Austin
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Sugarland
Texarkana
Victoria
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W. Oaks
W. San Antonio
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West McAllen
Wichita Falls
Woodlands

UTAH
Logan
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Orem
Riverdale
South Salt Lake

VERMONT
Williston

VIRGINIA
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Chesterfield
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Fredericksburg
Leesburg
Lynchburg
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Reston
Roanoke
Springfield Mall
Stafford
Sterling
Virginia Beach
Virginia Center Commons
W. Broad
Williamsburg

WASHINGTON
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Burlington
E. Spokane
Everett
Olympia
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Spokane North

WEST VIRGINIA
Granville
Huntington

WISCONSIN
Bluemound Plaza
E. Madison
Green Bay
Kenosha
La Crosse
Racine
Southridge
W. Madison

WYOMING
Casper

[via Kotaku]

Rogers confirms inexplicable 8GB iPhone 3GS – UPDATE

John Biggs — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:50:49 +0000

Rogers Canada has let the proverbial ninja out of the dojo by posting a “comparison chat” of multiple iPhone models, including the elusive 8GB 3GS. Why are they selling the 8GB? Who knows. Maybe it’s a little bit cheaper and maybe Apple just had extra 8GB chips. Or maybe Canadians, being socialists, don’t like digital media.

UPDATE – This was a website mistake. It’s being fixed right now. There is no 8GB 3GS.

BGR thinks it scooped the existence of the 8GB model but then wonders if this is an “errant checkmark” so there’s a good chance this is a tempest in a Molson bottle.

New BB Storm won’t have clicky touchscreen

John Biggs — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:09:23 +0000

BGR has some news on the new BlackBerry Storm AKA the 9550. The new phone will have a non-clicky screen and include Wi-Fi this time, making one of BlackBerry’s worst phones a bit more bearable. Some specs:

▪ CDMA 1xRTT/EVDO Rev. A
▪ Quad-band GSM/EDGE
▪ Single-band UMTS/HSDPA (2100MHz only)
▪ Wi-Fi b,g
▪ 3.2 megapixel camera
▪ 360×480 resolution capacitive screen
▪ OS 5.0

There is also talk of a 3G Storm for AT&T and Rogers.

via Gizza

WWDC 2009 Keynote recap

John Biggs — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:17:31 +0000

Here is our WWDC recap in living HTML.

9:51 AM: John Biggs
9:51 AM: John Biggs
9:57 AM: John Biggs Out in the line. The Apple guy who just walked by was counting folks and passed us at 476 or so.
10:06 AM: John Biggs So we’ve got live video of the line. If you have anything you want to know specifically, other than the obvious WHERE IS MY IFONE! Tweet @johnbiggs and I’ll try to respond.
10:17 AM: John Biggs
10:18 AM: John Biggs
10:18 AM: John Biggs Waiting for press registration
10:20 AM: John Biggs @johnbiggs What device are you recording the live feed on? Answer: Ustream on an iPhone
10:34 AM: John Biggs Hopefully you’re watching greg ask people what they think of the pre
10:34 AM: MDM Looking forward to CrunchGear’s coverage. Can’t wait for iPhone 3.0 update.
10:34 AM: Giovanni It is possible to see the conference in streaming on my Iphone?
10:34 AM: Dan Should I have audio?
10:34 AM: Daddy-O The Ustream app on the iPhone is only a viewer. How do you get the app that sends video to Ustream?
10:35 AM: John Biggs Re video question. We can’t stream video. Verboten
10:36 AM: John Biggs Dasorryddyo it’s an unlocked iPhone.
10:52 AM: John Biggs Sorry. Testing email. Still sitting on the floor waiting.
10:52 AM: John Biggs How is the stream?
10:53 AM: DannyD Ustream is great, but it is just so choppy. I´m from Germany and the stream is interrupted about every other second… is it my Connection or the iPhone`s that is “crap”
10:53 AM: Kirill Just wanted to say thanks for doing this guys.
10:53 AM: Ross Will you be streaming live inside?
11:00 AM: John Biggs No, Ross
11:20 AM: John Biggs hopefully the stream is better
11:21 AM: Rick Woot! girls in bikinis rock
11:21 AM: Juan Snyman The keynote begins in about 2 hours and 40 minutes, right? Why are you guys there so early. :o
11:22 AM: John Biggs No idea re live stream and we are this early for you guys
11:36 AM: John Biggs
11:36 AM: John Biggs
11:36 AM: John Biggs There is the new QuickTime Logo.
11:37 AM: John Biggs
11:38 AM: John Biggs
11:38 AM: John Biggs the old logo
11:38 AM: John Biggs
11:38 AM: John Biggs new one
11:40 AM: mapplemike Can’t wait to see what they say at WWDC. Apple employees are the biggest junkies of them all.
11:40 AM: bgertzfield According to the weirdo walking the WWDC line, I am male number 776. The nice lady behind me is female number 43!
11:40 AM: John Biggs Hey guys – we’re outside the keynote room right now w/ folks from Phonescoop, Laptop, Engadget; everyone’s here. Sorry the live feed went down, not a whole lot we can do about that.
11:41 AM: John Biggs Vincent Nguyen just took a horrible picture of me, as I thought it was video. Thanks, Vincent.
11:42 AM: Monik (etiole.com) why has the video gone off air?
11:42 AM: John Biggs Limited WiFi, No 3G. Simply not enough bandwidth. Plus – they’ll eat our face if we stream inside.
11:48 AM: John Biggs We’ve got power! Power is rare here. It’s like soil in waterworld.
11:49 AM: John Biggs We’re about 90% sure there’s no power inside. There *does* seem to be WiFi – which is incredible. Great chance that the WiFi will die as soon as we get inside, be it by apple’s doing or the weight of a million geeks all trying their damnedest to liveblog
11:51 AM: John Biggs
11:51 AM: John Biggs I wish John Biggs would hold my laptop for me while I typed:-(
11:52 AM: John Biggs Apple store is down. Everybody panic!
11:54 AM: John Biggs We’re still in line. The mood is generally light, everyone’s drinkin’ the Odwallas and eatin’ the scones Apple provided. If you need something to do, go prep your bingo cards: www.crunchgear.com
11:56 AM: Greg Kumparak The past 10 liveblog snippets have all been a lie. I didnt realize I was logged in as Biggs.
11:59 AM: Greg Kumparak Surprisingly, the room doesn’t smell too bad yet. It is a big room, though.
12:00 PM: Greg Kumparak
12:00 PM: Greg Kumparak There are probably around 150 media folk waiting outside the keynote room. There’s no obvious line. There never is, really. It’s just a big pile of madness.
12:01 PM: Greg Kumparak If you missed it in the earlier live broadcast, the first line dwellers had been here since 3 am.
12:02 PM: @michaelowens The first person in line got there at 5:30p the night before, actually.
12:02 PM: Greg Kumparak Yeesh. Missed’em. Way to go, 5:30pm trooper. Hope you enjoy the show.
12:04 PM: @iAppTime So will you be recording the keynote live on the Ustream?
12:05 PM: Greg Kumparak Unfortunately not; Apple nixed that from the start, and reiterated that it was disallowed when we were getting our badges.
12:13 PM: Greg Kumparak Looks like broadcast guys get to go in first, then the rest of media, then general WWDC goers.
12:13 PM: Dip Greg are people out there betting on Steve Jobs making an appearance?
12:14 PM: Greg Kumparak Lots of debates about that, as is to be expected.
12:15 PM: Greg Kumparak It seems like at least 50% of the people here are sick. Awesome.
12:16 PM: Jim No video but live blog will continue right?
12:17 PM: Greg Kumparak Absolutely – as long as we can keep a connection up, we’ll keep updating the feed.
12:17 PM: Greg Kumparak Besides the new looking Quicktime logo, we’re not noticing anything too surprising on the banners.
12:18 PM: Greg Kumparak Mentions of 64 bit stuff alongside snow leopard, an OpenOCL logo
12:20 PM: Dip Wonder how many people out there in Moscone are carrying the “pre”? Do you see any among those who are near you?
12:20 PM: Greg Kumparak Its only media around us, so it’s a Pre/iPhone bananza.
12:24 PM: Greg Kumparak If you’re wondering, it’s starting to smell horrible.
12:25 PM: Greg Kumparak Everyone’s starting to get cranky.
12:27 PM: Greg Kumparak
12:27 PM: Greg Kumparak That logo to the lower left of “Mac” – we’re not familiar with it. Anyone ever seen it?
12:27 PM: Greg Kumparak It reads “GCD”, and looks like a stoplight.
12:28 PM: Ender is it the new OSX Grand Central?
12:28 PM: Tim “Getting Crap Done”… must be an Apple implementation of the GTD.
12:29 PM: Capt Crunch What happens when a bunch of Apple fanboys get cranky?
12:29 PM: Greg Kumparak They start using windows mobile
12:31 PM: JP Macrumors says the logo is for multithreading”Threading has left the station.
Grand Central Dispatch”
12:32 PM: Greg Kumparak Seems like half the people here have iPhones; then blackberry, then pre/android handsets throughout.
12:33 PM: Greg Kumparak There are a good number of those special Google I/O HTC Magics
12:33 PM: Greg Kumparak Line is moving! We’re heading in!
12:36 PM: Greg Kumparak we’re in. still milling toward our seat
12:38 PM: Greg Kumparak We’ve been seated. We’re stage left. pics coming in now.
12:39 PM: Greg Kumparak
12:39 PM: Greg Kumparak
12:40 PM: Greg Kumparak Funky house music is blaring
12:40 PM: Matt Psst… that’s stage right :)
12:41 PM: Greg Kumparak Nonsense – this is an Apple event. Anything is possible. Its a wonderful land of imagination!
12:42 PM: Greg Kumparak Male to female ratio is about 50:1 at last count.
12:42 PM: Satish ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG!
12:43 PM: Greg Kumparak Man, you guys are missing out on the funkiest house music on the planet. I’m considering bailing on this whole live blogging nonsense and starting an impromptu rave in the back.
12:45 PM: Greg Kumparak
12:46 PM: Freiteez shazam the song so we can see what it is
12:46 PM: Greg Kumparak We tried; alas, the murmur is a bit too intense.
12:49 PM: MG Howdy
12:49 PM: Greg Kumparak MG Hammer, ladies and gentlemen.
12:51 PM: Greg Kumparak We’re just gettin’ ourselves prepped, folks – main show starts in 9 minutes.
12:52 PM: Greg Kumparak Shazam continues to fail to identify the lovely beats. That’s too bad, really – it’s decent stuff.
12:53 PM: Greg Kumparak No john mayer yet. It’s funky bass beats all the way down, folks.
12:53 PM: Greg Kumparak
12:53 PM: MG And no Coldplay yet
12:53 PM: Greg Kumparak Sideways journalists using their laptops.
12:54 PM: MG Nice Greg, crotch shot?
12:54 PM: Greg Kumparak @MG: That’s all Biggs’ doing.
12:56 PM: Greg Kumparak “Good morning ladies and Gentlemen! Welcome to the WWDC 2009 conference!”
12:57 PM: Greg Kumparak “At this time, as a courtesy to speakers on stage and fellow attendees, please turn off all cell phones and paging devices”
12:57 PM: Greg Kumparak Turn off your paging devices, people. Also, stop carrying pagers.
12:57 PM: MG @greg that was one of the best parts of The Hangover
12:58 PM: TD765 are they playing Dave Matthews Band
12:58 PM: Satish Thanks for ruining the movie guys.
12:58 PM: Greg Kumparak Music update: The Submarines – You, Me & The Bourgeoisie
12:59 PM: Greg Kumparak Spoiler: The Hangover features guys drinking alcoholic beverages
1:00 PM: Greg Kumparak It’s now time for the show to begin. No sign of anyone on stage yet.
1:00 PM: Greg Kumparak Lights are down
1:00 PM: Greg Kumparak The audience goes bonkers.
1:01 PM: Greg Kumparak The music.. continues.
1:01 PM: Greg Kumparak Song’s over – it’s time!c
1:01 PM: Greg Kumparak New PC/Mac ad.
1:01 PM: Greg Kumparak Hodgeman: “Welcome to WWDC!”
1:01 PM: Greg Kumparak “I wanted to be the first to wish you a week.. with..some innovation, but not too much”
1:01 PM: Greg Kumparak Doing another take:
1:02 PM: Greg Kumparak “Okay, hear me out: You’ve sold millions of iPhone apps. isnt that enough? Slow it down”
1:02 PM: Greg Kumparak Another take:
1:02 PM: Greg Kumparak “*raspberries sound*”
1:02 PM: Greg Kumparak “Hello, I’m a mac. What PC is trying to say: Have a great conference”
1:02 PM: Greg Kumparak Audience, again, goes bonkers
1:02 PM: Greg Kumparak Phil Schiller is on stage
1:03 PM: Greg Kumparak “Welcome to the 2009 WWDC. We have an amazing week planned for you. It’s incredible, for all of you — i mean all of you”
1:03 PM: Greg Kumparak “Can’t you feel the love in this room?”
1:03 PM: Greg Kumparak In 2007, OS X users were at 25 million .
1:04 PM: Greg Kumparak In 2009, it’s at 75 million.
1:04 PM: Greg Kumparak It took 7 years to get to 25
1:04 PM: Greg Kumparak but only 2 to triple it.
1:04 PM: Greg Kumparak “We will continue to give you technologies so you can build the best applications”
1:05 PM: Greg Kumparak Talking about the unibody macbook line
1:06 PM: Greg Kumparak “It let us create a laptop thats sturdier, packed with features, and amazingly thin”
1:06 PM: Greg Kumparak Recapping the roll out of unibody to the MB/MBP lines.
1:06 PM: Greg Kumparak “Even though we have a huge lead over anybodyelse in the laptop business, we dont want to stop”
1:06 PM: Greg Kumparak Brand new 15-inch MBP
1:06 PM: Greg Kumparak Just introduced.
1:06 PM: Greg Kumparak Built on Unibody
1:06 PM: Greg Kumparak Built-in Battery
1:06 PM: Greg Kumparak Up to 7 hours of battery life
1:07 PM: John Biggs
1:07 PM: Greg Kumparak (2 hours more than before)
1:07 PM: Greg Kumparak More environmentally friendly.
1:07 PM: Greg Kumparak Old batteries would get about 300 recharges before they started to wear down
1:07 PM: Greg Kumparak The new ones get 1,000 full recharge cycles
1:07 PM: Greg Kumparak Generally, that’s 5 years of life.
1:07 PM: John Biggs
1:07 PM: Greg Kumparak “Most customers will never need to change the battery in their laptop”, as it’ll last longer than their MBP’s specs will.
1:08 PM: John Biggs
1:08 PM: Greg Kumparak The new 15″ is just as thin and just as light as the old one.
1:08 PM: Greg Kumparak “Nicest display we’ve ever put in a notebook”
1:08 PM: John Biggs
1:08 PM: Greg Kumparak Something different: New port
1:08 PM: Greg Kumparak No express card slot
1:08 PM: Greg Kumparak SD Card slot!
1:08 PM: Greg Kumparak They’ve replaced the expresscard slot with SD.
1:09 PM: Greg Kumparak “Most of our customers use digital cameras – of course, you can plug it in. But customers like the convenience of popping in a card”, goes on to say SD is standard now.
1:09 PM: Greg Kumparak Fastest notebook Apple has ever made
1:09 PM: Greg Kumparak Up to 3.06 ghz dual core, 6 MB L2 Cache
1:09 PM: Greg Kumparak Up to 8 Gigs up 1066 Mhz DDR3
1:09 PM: Greg Kumparak Up to 500GB on a spinning disc
1:09 PM: Greg Kumparak or 256 GB on a Solid state drive
1:10 PM: Greg Kumparak $1699
1:10 PM: Greg Kumparak Starting price of the new 15″ MBP: $1699.
1:10 PM: John Biggs
1:10 PM: Greg Kumparak $1699 with 2.53 ghz, 4gb of ram, 250gb drive, 9400m, sd slot
1:10 PM: Greg Kumparak $1999 = 2.6 ghz 4gb DDR3 320gb hdd, 9400m + 9600m GT, SD slot
1:11 PM: Greg Kumparak $2299 – 2.8 Ghz, 4gb DDR3, 500gb HDD, 9400m + 9600m GT, SD card slot
1:11 PM: Greg Kumparak They’re also updating the 17″
Goes up to 2.8 ghz
1:11 PM: Greg Kumparak 4GB DDR
1:11 PM: Greg Kumparak 500Gb drive
1:11 PM: Greg Kumparak 9400m/9600M GT
1:11 PM: Greg Kumparak $2499 ($300 price drop)
1:11 PM: Greg Kumparak Shipping today.
1:11 PM: Greg Kumparak Both the 15″ and the revised 17″
1:12 PM: Greg Kumparak They’re now talking about the 13″ macbook
1:12 PM: Greg Kumparak Revised model
1:12 PM: Greg Kumparak 7 hours of battery life (2 hours more than before)
1:12 PM: Greg Kumparak Built in battery
1:12 PM: John Biggs
1:12 PM: Greg Kumparak Same “Incredible, new, vivid color display”
1:12 PM: Greg Kumparak Same SD card slot
1:12 PM: Greg Kumparak The macbook didn’t have an expresscard slot before, so it was a bit of a squeeze
1:13 PM: Greg Kumparak “What other things could we add to just make it a Macbook Pro?”
1:13 PM: Greg Kumparak Up to 8GB of ram.
1:13 PM: Greg Kumparak Backlit keyboard!
1:13 PM: Greg Kumparak And a firewire 800 port!
1:13 PM: Greg Kumparak 13″ Macbook is now a Macbook Pro.
1:13 PM: Greg Kumparak $1199.
1:14 PM: Greg Kumparak The new 13″ Macbook (now a Pro model) will be $1199.
1:14 PM: Greg Kumparak Base model is $1199, 2.25 ghz 2GB DDR3, 9400m Graphics, 160GB hdd, Sd card slot
1:14 PM: Greg Kumparak $1499: 2.53 ghz, 4 gigs of ddr3, 9400m, sd card slot
1:14 PM: Greg Kumparak Available today.
1:15 PM: John Biggs
1:15 PM: John Biggs
1:15 PM: Greg Kumparak They’re also updating the Macbook Air
1:15 PM: Greg Kumparak 1.86 ghz for $1499
1:15 PM: Greg Kumparak $300 price drop
1:16 PM: Greg Kumparak Higher end MB Air: 2.13 ghz with a 128GB solid state drive, $1799
1:16 PM: Greg Kumparak (Thats a $700 price drop)
1:16 PM: Greg Kumparak Every Macbook, Macbook Pro, and Air meets energy star requirement V5 – which isn’t even standard till summer.
1:16 PM: Greg Kumparak “The world’s greenest lineup of notebooks”
1:17 PM: John Biggs
1:17 PM: Greg Kumparak They’re moving on to OS X
1:17 PM: John Biggs
1:17 PM: Greg Kumparak Someone else entered the stage; I missed the name, but I believe it was Bertrand Sertlet
1:17 PM: Greg Kumparak Discussing OS X’s merits.
1:18 PM: Greg Kumparak How great it is, how great reviews have been.
1:18 PM: Greg Kumparak Says “What a contrast”, with Windows Vista logo on the screen.
1:18 PM: Greg Kumparak “Even with Windows 7, you have all the same technologies: DLLs, the registry, disk defragging. Users should never have to know about that.”
1:18 PM: Greg Kumparak Just made a jab at UAC hassles in Windows Vista/7
1:19 PM: Greg Kumparak “Our challenge was to build a better Leopard”
1:19 PM: John Biggs
1:20 PM: John Biggs
1:20 PM: Greg Kumparak Brief mention of Exchange support in Snow Leopard.
1:20 PM: John Biggs
1:20 PM: John Biggs
1:20 PM: Greg Kumparak “We love the way the finder is in Leopard – so we didn’t change a thing. At least, not the user interface”
1:20 PM: Greg Kumparak Finder has been rewritten in Cocoa:
1:20 PM: Greg Kumparak Listing differences quickly
1:20 PM: Greg Kumparak Faster icon drawing
Faster trash emptying
1:20 PM: Greg Kumparak New disc eject manager
1:21 PM: Greg Kumparak “My desktop now has a little too much clutter. We’ve had expose.. so we built expose into the dock”
1:21 PM: Greg Kumparak (Meh)
1:21 PM: Greg Kumparak The installation process has been sped up by 45%.
1:22 PM: Greg Kumparak Updating to Snow Leopard will actually save you 6GB of space, thanks to compression technologies
1:22 PM: Greg Kumparak They’re discussing text selection in PDFs; it’s now handled much more logically.
1:23 PM: Greg Kumparak People clap, because people are strange.
1:23 PM: Greg Kumparak Mail has been sped up across the board
1:23 PM: John Biggs
1:23 PM: Greg Kumparak Now on to discussing Safari
1:24 PM: Greg Kumparak Final version of Safari 4 will ship today for Leopard, Tiger, and Windows XP/Vista
1:24 PM: Greg Kumparak Benchmarking Safari’s javascript
1:24 PM: Greg Kumparak Safari 4 Javascript is around 8x faster than IE 8’s
1:24 PM: Greg Kumparak 100/100 on the Acid3 test
1:24 PM: Greg Kumparak Showing IE8’s score: 21/100
1:25 PM: Greg Kumparak “Crash resistance”
1:25 PM: Greg Kumparak “The #1 reason for crashes is actually plugins” If your plugin crashes in Safari 4, it’s no problem
1:25 PM: John Biggs
1:25 PM: Greg Kumparak they’ve seperated plugins into a seperate process
1:25 PM: John Biggs
1:26 PM: John Biggs
1:26 PM: Greg Kumparak If a plugin fails, it’ll just load the “Plugin not found” graphic and keep ticking.
1:26 PM: Greg Kumparak New version of Quicktime
1:26 PM: Greg Kumparak “Quicktime X”
1:26 PM: Greg Kumparak Modern Foundation
1:26 PM: Greg Kumparak Hardware acceleration
Color Sync
1:26 PM: Greg Kumparak HTTP Streaming
1:26 PM: Greg Kumparak New UI for Quicktime
1:27 PM: Greg Kumparak Looks very similar to the preview window.
1:27 PM: Greg Kumparak If you pull the mouse away, the border and all play controls fade away
1:27 PM: Greg Kumparak so it’s purely video, floating along.
1:27 PM: Greg Kumparak Craig Federighi is on stage, VP of Mac OS Engineering.
1:27 PM: John Biggs
1:27 PM: John Biggs
1:27 PM: Greg Kumparak That’s the new, new quicktime Logo.
1:28 PM: Greg Kumparak Talking about stacks:
Stacks have scrolling support, and you can jump into folders directly within stacks
1:28 PM: Greg Kumparak Thumbnail sizes can now be magnified on the fly in finder.
1:28 PM: Greg Kumparak You can page through PDFs right on the thumbnail
1:28 PM: Greg Kumparak You can preview videos right within the thumbnail
1:29 PM: Greg Kumparak Thumbnail view just became usable, hurray!
1:29 PM: Greg Kumparak Back on to discussing Dock Expose
1:29 PM: Greg Kumparak Wow, that’s actually really nifty
1:29 PM: Greg Kumparak If you click and hold any application icon on your dock
1:29 PM: Greg Kumparak it’ll expose just those windows
1:30 PM: Greg Kumparak For example, click and hold safari icon: BAM. All your safari windows, expose’d.
1:30 PM: John Biggs
1:30 PM: Greg Kumparak That includes drag and drop support; you can drag a movie file to the mail icon, and all of your mail windows will line up, allowing you to drag directly to the right one.
1:30 PM: Greg Kumparak Demonstrating Safari 4’s speed.
1:31 PM: Greg Kumparak It does indeed seem incredibly fast.
1:32 PM: Greg Kumparak Demonstrating coverflow view of History, with spotlight search.
1:32 PM: Greg Kumparak Demonstrating QuickTime X again.
1:33 PM: Greg Kumparak Once again showing that the border, titlebar, and controls fade away when the mouse is pulled away.
1:33 PM: Greg Kumparak You can now trim/share videos directly within QuickTime.
1:33 PM: Greg Kumparak You can scrub smoothly to find the begin/end point, hit the trim button , then share to iTunes/MobileMe/YouTube.
1:34 PM: Greg Kumparak Bertrand is back on stage.
1:34 PM: Greg Kumparak Discussing the new technologies available to macs.
1:35 PM: Greg Kumparak Recapping RAM enhancements, Intel CPU enhancements, the new GPUs
1:35 PM: Greg Kumparak “To take advantage of this, you need the right software”
1:35 PM: Greg Kumparak “First – 64 bit. Take advantage of lots and lots of memory. in 32 bit, it has an inherent limit of 4gb. in 64 bit, you’re limited to 16 billion gigabytes.”
1:36 PM: Greg Kumparak Discussing how they’re moving more and more towards 64 bit; all major Apple applications are 64 bit in snow leopard.
1:36 PM: John Biggs I made the ScribbleLive window longer. Feel free to refresh.
1:37 PM: Greg Kumparak Discussing how to take advantage of multi CPU cores and threading.
1:37 PM: Greg Kumparak “Grand Central Dispatch”
1:37 PM: John Biggs
1:37 PM: Greg Kumparak “Its built in support for multicore, across all of Snow Leopard”
1:37 PM: Greg Kumparak Language Extension, Multicore engine, object oriented frame work, new system-wide APIs, new Tools (to tune your program)
1:37 PM: John Biggs
1:38 PM: Greg Kumparak Every time he says “Threads”, I think he’s saying “Freds”
1:38 PM: Greg Kumparak Discussing OpenCL support.
1:38 PM: John Biggs
1:39 PM: Greg Kumparak “We want to move beyond [OpenGL].”
1:39 PM: Greg Kumparak “For that, we’ve built OpenCL”
1:39 PM: Greg Kumparak Open CL Features: Hardware Abstraction, C-based language, Automatic optimization, Numerical Accuracy.
1:39 PM: Greg Kumparak (That last one meaning it can be used for scientific computing)
1:40 PM: Greg Kumparak Partners: Samsung, Nvidia, EA, Texas Instruments, Nokia, Qualcomm, Intel, QNX, Freescale, many more.
1:40 PM: Greg Kumparak Recapping the 3 major technologies in Snow Leopard: 64-bit across the board, Grand Central Dispatch, OpenCL
1:40 PM: Greg Kumparak Moving on to business users – Exchange support coming up
1:41 PM: Greg Kumparak “We’ve decided to build exchange support in snow leopard into Mail, iCal, and address book”
1:41 PM: Greg Kumparak “You fill in your email address and password – and you’re set, across all 3 apps”
1:41 PM: Greg Kumparak They’re about to demo Exchange.
1:42 PM: John Biggs Autodiscovery of Exchange servers.
1:42 PM: John Biggs Exchange sync is seamless.
1:43 PM: John Biggs Spotlight searches Exchange data and you can QuickLook MS Office files right in emails – whether or not you have MS Office installed.
1:43 PM: John Biggs Good move towards business users. Invitations work in iCal and in Email. See everything in context.
1:44 PM: John Biggs Schedule meetings by dragging contacts into calendar
1:44 PM: John Biggs Room availability info now works.
1:44 PM: John Biggs Checks for available meeting times in certain rooms.
1:44 PM: John Biggs Automatic rescheduling if the meeting room is being used.
1:45 PM: John Biggs This is aimed straight at business users.
1:46 PM: John Biggs All intel Macs can run Snow Leopard.
1:46 PM: John Biggs Snow Leopard costs $29 for Leopard users.
1:47 PM: John Biggs Family pack for $49
1:47 PM: John Biggs Available this September
1:47 PM: John Biggs Today they have a near final Dev Preview
1:47 PM: John Biggs
1:47 PM: John Biggs
1:48 PM: John Biggs
1:48 PM: Greg Kumparak iPhone time!
1:48 PM: John Biggs iPhone time
1:48 PM: Greg Kumparak Over 1,000,000 downloads of the SDK
1:48 PM: Greg Kumparak There are now over 50,000 apps in the App Store.
1:49 PM: Greg Kumparak “We have already sold over 40 million iPhones and iPod Touches”
1:49 PM: Greg Kumparak Discussing the April 23rd/1 billion downloads landmark.
1:49 PM: Greg Kumparak “Thank you to our customers – but especially, thank you to the developers”
1:50 PM: Greg Kumparak Showing an iPhone developer video
1:50 PM: Greg Kumparak Opens up to a major city; looks like Tokyo.
Shibuya, I believe
1:50 PM: Greg Kumparak Panning through multiple developers, telling tales of their experiences with the iPhone.
1:51 PM: John Biggs Dizzy Bee guy travels and makes games
1:51 PM: John Biggs
1:52 PM: John Biggs
1:52 PM: Greg Kumparak Still more experiences; MLB.com guy telling of seeing a ton of people download their MLB.com app right as an Apple commercial featuring it airs
1:53 PM: Greg Kumparak (It’s still the video, by the way)
1:53 PM: John Biggs
1:55 PM: Greg Kumparak Video’s over.
1:55 PM: John Biggs Owe the amazing years to Developers
1:55 PM: John Biggs iPhone OS 3.0
1:55 PM: Greg Kumparak Over 100 new features in iPhone os 3.0
1:55 PM: Greg Kumparak Recapping Cut/Copy/Paste
1:56 PM: Greg Kumparak Cut, copy, paste: Works across apps, undo support, developer APIs – still mostly a recap.
1:56 PM: Greg Kumparak Now recapping Landscape support in first-party apps
1:57 PM: Greg Kumparak Recapping MMS
1:57 PM: John Biggs
1:57 PM: Greg Kumparak Support for sending Photos, contacts, audio files, etc over the cell network
1:57 PM: John Biggs
1:58 PM: Greg Kumparak 24 carriers will support iphone MMS at launch
1:58 PM: Greg Kumparak Recapping search now: Search throughout contacts, calendars, notes, email, etc
1:58 PM: Greg Kumparak “The great part about searching your email:” not just local messages, but messages that are back on your mail server.
1:58 PM: Greg Kumparak Spotlight page recap: One page, searches across the phone.
1:59 PM: Greg Kumparak Confirms movie rentals/purchases from the phone.
1:59 PM: Greg Kumparak You can also purchase tv shows/audio books/etc on the go.
1:59 PM: Greg Kumparak “And because we care deeply about education: Support for iTunes U, right on the phone”
2:00 PM: Greg Kumparak Parental Controls:
2:00 PM: John Biggs
2:00 PM: Greg Kumparak In addition to controls we already support, such as youtube/safari support, we’ve added other items:
2:00 PM: Greg Kumparak You can now filter by movie/tv-show content via parental controls.
2:00 PM: Greg Kumparak You can now limit app usage by age ratings.
2:00 PM: Greg Kumparak Tethering:
2:01 PM: Greg Kumparak Tethering works w/ Mac/PC, USB or Bluetooth
2:01 PM: Greg Kumparak “It is a seamless experience – once it’s on, there’s no need for tethering software on your computer”
2:01 PM: John Biggs
2:01 PM: Greg Kumparak “Like MMS, it requires carrier support. 22 carriers at launch. Telefonica, TIM, Rogers, more”
2:02 PM: John Biggs
2:02 PM: Greg Kumparak Aaaand no mention of AT&T.
2:02 PM: Greg Kumparak Audience groans.
2:02 PM: John Biggs
2:02 PM: John Biggs
2:02 PM: John Biggs
2:02 PM: Greg Kumparak Safari Mobile: Javascript is now 3x faster
2:02 PM: John Biggs
2:02 PM: Greg Kumparak Support for HTTP streaming audio/video
2:03 PM: Greg Kumparak It automatically picks the proper quality based off your connection
2:03 PM: Greg Kumparak And works through firewalls, as it’s HTTP>
2:03 PM: Greg Kumparak Discussing password autofill
2:03 PM: Greg Kumparak Safari can now autofill forms for you based on what’s in your contacts.
2:04 PM: Greg Kumparak Safari 4 recap: Performance upgrades, HTTP streaming, Auto fill, hTML 5.
2:04 PM: John Biggs
2:04 PM: John Biggs
2:04 PM: Greg Kumparak New language support is OS 3.0:
2:04 PM: Greg Kumparak Hebrew, Arabic, Greek
2:04 PM: Greg Kumparak Korean, and Thai
2:04 PM: Greg Kumparak “We now support more than 30 languages”
2:05 PM: John Biggs
2:05 PM: Greg Kumparak Discussing find my iPhone feature
2:05 PM: Greg Kumparak “If you’ve ever lost or misplaced your phone, it can be tramatic”
2:05 PM: Greg Kumparak Hah!
2:05 PM: Greg Kumparak Rolling to a video
2:05 PM: Greg Kumparak It’s the 30 rock crew!
2:06 PM: Greg Kumparak Liz Lemon has lost a phone w/ her nudie pics
2:07 PM: John Biggs FindMyIphone: MobileMe Service
2:07 PM: John Biggs Lose your iphone, it’ll show you on a map where it is.
2:07 PM: John Biggs Send your phone a message via landline
2:07 PM: John Biggs Alert sound plays whether phone is on silent or not
2:08 PM: John Biggs Send remote wipe command if it’s lost or stolen
2:09 PM: John Biggs In app purchase. Financial transactions within the app.
2:09 PM: John Biggs Renew magazine subscriptions. Sell additional game packs in games.
2:09 PM: John Biggs Free apps remain free. No bait and switch.
2:09 PM: John Biggs
2:09 PM: John Biggs Peer-to-peer game connectivity.
2:10 PM: John Biggs
2:10 PM: John Biggs No pairing needed
2:10 PM: John Biggs Accessories – Opening up hardware accessory devs
2:11 PM: John Biggs Software apps that talk right to accessories. 1-touch-blood glucose monitor.
2:11 PM: John Biggs Maps
2:11 PM: John Biggs Embed google maps right into your applications
2:12 PM: John Biggs Custom map apps
2:12 PM: John Biggs Turn by turn direction applications
2:12 PM: John Biggs Push notifications
2:12 PM: John Biggs Generic push notification service.
2:13 PM: John Biggs push numeric badges, messages, and alert sounds
2:13 PM: John Biggs Some devs are coming up who have already used iPhone 3.0
2:13 PM: John Biggs GameLoft’s Mark Hickey is coming up
2:14 PM: John Biggs Asphalt 5
2:14 PM: John Biggs Gameloft
2:14 PM: John Biggs Buggati, BMW, Audi cars
2:14 PM: John Biggs Play iPod music inside games.
2:15 PM: John Biggs New controls and graphics. Console quality games.
2:16 PM: John Biggs In game voice chat. Content packs – racetracks and cars
2:16 PM: John Biggs
2:17 PM: John Biggs Medical community flocking to iPhone
2:17 PM: John Biggs
2:18 PM: John Biggs
2:18 PM: John Biggs
2:18 PM: John Biggs See patient’s vital signs on an app
2:18 PM: John Biggs Real-time data straight out of iPhone
2:18 PM: John Biggs
2:18 PM: John Biggs
2:19 PM: John Biggs
2:19 PM: John Biggs Airstrip critical care is getting FDA approval shortly.
2:20 PM: John Biggs
2:20 PM: John Biggs ScrollMotion is now on stage
2:21 PM: John Biggs They’ve partnered with a ton of magazine and book publishers
2:21 PM: John Biggs They’re now demonstrating the “In App Bookshelf” and the “Iceberg Store”
2:21 PM: John Biggs in which you can purchase books right within the App.
2:22 PM: John Biggs For Students: Copy/Paste right from a book, allowing you to email quotes directly
2:22 PM: John Biggs along w/ the bibliographic info.
2:22 PM: John Biggs Text books coming to the app store via Iceberg reader.
2:22 PM: John Biggs Now on stage: TomTom
2:24 PM: John Biggs Demonstrating TomTom turn-by-turn nav
2:25 PM: John Biggs Showing off a TomTom branded iPhone holder
2:25 PM: John Biggs “Thanks to the accessory framework, we can enhance your GPS signal”
2:25 PM: John Biggs Plus a built in speaker/mic for the sake of handsfree
2:25 PM: John Biggs “And yes, we’ll play your music over the car stereo”
2:27 PM: john
2:28 PM: John Biggs Demonstrating Star Defense
2:28 PM: John Biggs Next up: NGMoco
2:28 PM: John Biggs
2:29 PM: John Biggs PASCO teaching tools
2:31 PM: John Biggs spark application.
2:31 PM: John Biggs PASCO science experiments for kids – sensors that connect to iPhone
2:33 PM: John Biggs Do science anytime anywhere.
2:33 PM: John Biggs Demonstrated – but failed – on a pressure measurement.
2:33 PM: John Biggs ZipCar
2:34 PM: john
2:35 PM: John Biggs ZipCar icon instantly finds and reserves a zipcar
2:35 PM: John Biggs Sorry this is so boring, guys.
2:36 PM: John Biggs You reserve cars right on the iPhone, add cars to favorites. You can then press the horn icon on the iPhone and the zipcar will beep at you.
2:36 PM: John Biggs Once you come up to the car you tap unlock to unlock it.
2:37 PM: John Biggs Shows available zipcars nearby
2:37 PM: John Biggs YAY. Final demo. Line 6 and Planet Waves
2:37 PM: John Biggs Control your guitar and your amp from your iPhone
2:37 PM: John Biggs Bringing out a guitar
2:38 PM: John Biggs No mention of Flash
2:38 PM: John Biggs MIDI Mobilizer
2:38 PM: John Biggs Directly connect and iPhone to a Line 6 amp and guitar
2:39 PM: John Biggs Kind of like automatic pedals
2:39 PM: John Biggs Adjust parameters on the fly – gain, etc.
2:39 PM: John Biggs Acoustic twelve string
2:40 PM: John Biggs VariX guitar – move pick-ups and body style from the screen.
2:40 PM: John Biggs Change tuning virtually.
2:40 PM: John Biggs Rig Remote software. Veta amp has guitar models built-in. You tap a button to select the sound model.
2:40 PM: greg Wuhoh. This demo failed too. These folks aren’t having too much luck
2:41 PM: John Biggs Looks like we’re hitting the end of demos
2:42 PM: John Biggs End of iPhone OS 3.0
2:42 PM: John Biggs Free for iPhone customers – original and iPhone 3G
2:42 PM: John Biggs $9.95 for iPod touch customers
2:42 PM: John Biggs Available June 17 worldwide
2:43 PM: John Biggs Devs get GM seed for iPhone 3.0
2:43 PM: John Biggs Calls of action: go to iTunes Connect and assign a parental control age rating for your app. Download the 3.0 seed. Submit an update.
2:44 PM: John Biggs Phil Schiller back up on stage.
2:44 PM: John Biggs iPhone 3G is a hit
2:44 PM: John Biggs Phone that changed phones forever. Changes who people thing about phones.
2:46 PM: John Biggs Nokia Ovi store, Palm, all have no apps.
2:46 PM: John Biggs iPhone 3GS!!!!
2:46 PM: John Biggs iPhone 3Gs SPEED
2:46 PM: John Biggs s stands for Speed
2:46 PM: John Biggs Same great design
2:47 PM: John Biggs Really fast iPhone
2:47 PM: John Biggs 2.4 x faster to play games
2:47 PM: John Biggs 3.6x faster
2:48 PM: John Biggs 3x faster javascript
2:48 PM: John Biggs OPEN GL|ES 2.0
2:48 PM: John Biggs 7.2 Mbps HSDPA
2:48 PM: john
2:48 PM: greg Roughly 2x faster over all
2:48 PM: John Biggs Brand new camera
2:49 PM: John Biggs 3 megapixel autofocus camera
2:49 PM: john
2:50 PM: John Biggs Tap to focus. Tap on items to focus on stuff. Tap on house – focus on house. Tap on flower – focus on flower.
2:50 PM: John Biggs Images coming
2:50 PM: John Biggs Auto macro
2:50 PM: John Biggs Also captures video
2:51 PM: John Biggs Still or Movie
2:52 PM: John Biggs edit video with a tap of your finger. share from iPhone – send MMS, send email, send YouTube, MobileMe
2:53 PM: John Biggs Most popular video camera
2:53 PM: greg 30 FPS VGA, auto lighting, auto focus,
2:54 PM: John Biggs dial friends and family with voice
2:56 PM: John Biggs Hold down home button
2:57 PM: John Biggs “Play songs by the killers.”
2:57 PM: John Biggs Genius playlist control
2:57 PM: John Biggs Built in digital compass
2:57 PM: John Biggs some guy just screamed
2:57 PM: John Biggs compass app
2:57 PM: John Biggs Built in Nike+ support
2:57 PM: John Biggs Hardware encryption on the data
2:57 PM: greg The wwdc network just melted. Compass confirmed. map auto orients.
Nike plus support.
2:57 PM: greg Hardware encryption: when you wipe, it’s instant.
Sent from my iPhone
2:57 PM: john
2:58 PM: John Biggs Instant wipe with encryption
2:58 PM: John Biggs Improved battery life
2:58 PM: John Biggs 9 hours internet surfing 30 hours of music listening
2:58 PM: John Biggs Greenest iPhone yet
2:58 PM: greg
Sent from my iPhone
2:58 PM: John Biggs No images for now, guys. Our network is getting saturated.
2:59 PM: John Biggs iPhone 3G – price
2:59 PM: John Biggs $199
2:59 PM: John Biggs 16GB version
2:59 PM: John Biggs $299 for 32GB version
2:59 PM: John Biggs AT&T prices – new and qualifying customers
3:00 PM: John Biggs Black and white
3:00 PM: John Biggs WE WANT TO REACH EVEN MORE CUSTOMERS
3:00 PM: John Biggs Keep iPhone 3G at $99
3:00 PM: John Biggs WHOMP
3:00 PM: John Biggs High end smartphone for $99
3:01 PM: John Biggs Starts today. New iPhone 3G on sale today for $99 (8GB)
3:01 PM: John Biggs iPhone 3GS available June 19
3:01 PM: John Biggs US canada france germany switzerland
3:01 PM: John Biggs July 09 roll out rest of world
3:01 PM: John Biggs 80 countries
3:02 PM: John Biggs showing new ad
3:03 PM: John Biggs WWDC BINGO WIN
3:04 PM: John Biggs 11 minutes of battery life
3:04 PM: John Biggs left on my MacBook Pro
3:04 PM: John Biggs Thanking all the teams
3:04 PM: John Biggs June 19 should be in UK, Dave
3:04 PM: Dave Bondy Why no 3GS in the UK on June 19! What game are Apple / O2 playing?
3:05 PM: John Biggs I just didn’t get to type it
3:05 PM: John Biggs NO ONE MORE THING
3:05 PM: John Biggs :(
3:05 PM: John Biggs ok, guys. thanks for tuning in.
3:05 PM: John Biggs No Jobs

iPhone 3.0: What You Need to Know

Peter Ha — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:05:55 +0000

We’ve known about 3.0 for some time and today Apple revealed a few more nuggets to get you excited about the upcoming OS upgrade on the iPhone.

Cut, Copy, Paste: Works across apps, undo support, developer APIs.

MMS: Support for sending Photos, contacts, audio files, etc over the cell network. 24 carriers will support iphone MMS at launch.

Search: Search throughout contacts, calendars, notes, email, etc. “The great part about searching your email:” not just local messages, but messages that are back on your mail server. In other words: One-page searches across the phone.

iTunes: Movie rentals/purchases from the iPhone are confirmed. You can also purchase tv shows/audio books/etc on the go. “And because we care deeply about education: Support for iTunes U, right on the phone.”

Parental Controls: In addition to controls we already support, such as youtube/safari support, we’ve added other items: You can now filter by movie/tv-show content via parental controls. You can now limit app usage by age ratings.

Tethering: Tethering works w/ Mac/PC, USB or Bluetooth. “It is a seamless experience – once it’s on, there’s no need for tethering software on your computer.” “Like MMS, it requires carrier support. 22 carriers at launch. Telefonica, TIM, Rogers, more.” Doesn’t look like AT&T will support tethering.

Safari Mobile: Javascript is now 3x faster. Support for HTTP streaming audio/video. It automatically picks the proper quality based off your connection. And works through firewalls, as it’s HTTP>. Safari can now autofill forms for you based on what’s in your contacts. Safari 4 recap: Performance upgrades, HTTP streaming, Auto fill, HTML 5.

New language support in OS 3.0: Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Korean, and Thai. The iPhone now supports over 30 languages.

Find My iPhone: As MobileMe service if your iPhone is ever lost FMI will show you where it is on a map by sending your phone a message via landline. An alert sound plays whether phone is on silent or not. Send remote wipe command if it’s lost or stolen.

In App Purchases: Renew magazine subscriptions. Sell additional game packs in games. Free apps remain free. No bait and switch.

Accessories: Software apps that talk right to accessories, like the 1-touch-blood glucose monitor. Apple has really opened up to third-party accessory manufacturers.

Maps: Embed Google maps right into your applications. Custom map apps. Turn by turn direction applications.

Push notifications: Generic push notification service. Push numeric badges, messages, and alert sounds.

3.0 release date: Woohoo! I should probably take my borked iPhone 3G into the Apple store before June 17th so I can get my free upgrade to 3.0. The OS upgrade will be free for iPhone and iPhone 3G owners. As always, Touch owners will have to pony up $10.

NAM Nokia E63s now available at the flagship stores

Greg Kumparak — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:52:49 +0000

It was only a few weeks back when Nokia announced that a model of the E63 with North American 3G friendly internals was on the way, and it’s already found its way to the shelves. While it doesn’t appear that Nokia has gotten around to putting it online yet, the flagship Nokia stores in Chicago and New York are reporting that they just received their first shipment and are letting them go for $279.99 a piece.

The North American model packs in quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900 Mhz) and UMTS (850/1900mhz), so it should fire right up on AT&T’s (or, if you’re a bit further up north, Rogers) 3G network. Besides the radio change, it matches spec-for-spec with the international version Nokia launched a few months ago, which is in turn a lighter-spec’d and easier-on-the-wallet homage to the E71.

The E63 comes in blue and red, and we’re not sure which is in stock – so make sure to call ahead if you’ve got a particular hue in mind.

[via Symbian-Guru]

The Early Adopter Gets the Worm

Scott Merrill — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:40:29 +0000

There are a dizzying number of cool new services, applications, and gadgets available to citizens of the world today. New stuff is coming out all the time and it can be hard for us Internet experts to keep up, let alone average human beings. For example, my dad — no Internet slouch — had no idea what Hulu was. How is he expected to care about the difference between Twitter or identi.ca?

I take a generally pessimistic view of new sites, assuming that I’ll either not like them, or they won’t stick around long enough for me to appreciate them. I have a few friends who are compulsive signer-uppers, gladly agreeing to the Terms of Service for any new site that comes along. One of these guys does it specifically so he can claim his preferred username, lest some other Internet a-hole tarnish his good handle. Another friend signs up for stuff with the expectation that he’ll actually use the service being offered. Sometimes he does, sometimes he doesn’t.

The folks who sign up early — the aptly named early adopters — often enjoy a number of benefits to using new sites and services. Capacity isn’t usually an issue, so the services work well. There’s a sense of satisfaction as you enjoy something no one else is currently enjoying. You get to look smart and in-the-know as you talk about it to all your Luddite friends. There’s the obvious novelty factors. And sometimes, the sites and services are genuinely useful!

One thing I’ve noticed about early adopters is that they seem complacent with the knowledge that all their time and effort may soon be obviated as the sites to which they sign up disappear. These folks will sign up for a site and really start using it. Take, for example , Grand Central, Google’s unified phone solution. I know several folks who absolutely rely on Grand Central. They jumped in whole hog, and live and die by Grand Central. Of course, Google could terminate Grand Central tomorrow if they wanted to, literally stranding many of the early adopters that really rely on the service. I’d wager that a great many of these early adopters would be frustrated with the disappearance of the service, but would in short order find alternatives to reproduce the lost functionality.

The late adopters, and the laggards, seem to place a higher value on the longevity of their effort, and are less likely to sign up for some new site or service (assuming they hear about it at all) without some assurance that their effort won’t be wasted on a fly-by-night operation. Some folks like to wait to see which of several competing solutions will emerge as the dominant choice. How many folks waited to buy Flickr accounts as they kept an eye on Zooomr, and whatever other photo sharing sites cropped up to compete? Other late adopters sign up only when some critical mass of their peers sign up for something. How useful would Facebook or Twitter really be if you were the only person you knew using it?

I wonder, though, how many early adopters actually stick with something? Are the early adopters compulsive about using new sites and services? Is it some how beneath them to use something that is suddenly mainstream? Another interesting thing to consider is how many early adopters are willing to pay for services that were free before they got big? Take for example Jott, the voice-to-text messaging system that recently started charging $4 a month for what had previously been free. I know a guy who used the free Jott a lot, but decided he’s not using $4 a month worth. Just like that, he’s stopped using the service, and is investigating a number of alternatives.

So the question I have for you, dear readers, is this: how can sites, services, and products remain relevant to the broad spectrum of users? Is it worth it to try to keep early adopters as a deluge of late adopters and laggards start using your solution? Can you adequately reward early adopters, or is early adoption reward enough? Is it worthwhile to actively seek out early adopters, or is that more trouble than its worth since they’re such a fickle and unreliable bunch?

Via Technologizer.

Rumor: BlackBerry 8900 pricing revealed

Greg Kumparak — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:03:48 +0000

After over 6 months of rumbling around the rumor mill, the T-Mobile-branded BlackBerry 8900 is almost upon us. We’ve got purported release dates (January 19th for corporate users, February 11th for the general public) and we’ve had the specs for ages, so there was really only one thing left: the pricing. ‘Till now, of course.

According to BlackBerryRocks, the 8900 will be priced accordingly:

No Contract: $499
2-year contract: $199.99 (After $300 instant rebate)
1-year contract: $249.99 (After $250 instant rebate)

While these prices are said to only reflect pricing for corporate customers, they should be pretty dead-on for the general public outside though the 1-year contract option might not be offered.

[Via BerryReporter]

TiVo updates their search functionality, calls it Search

Peter Ha — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:59:17 +0000

TiVo just updated their search functionality so it’s all shiny and new. It’s basically a UI redesign with a bit more oomph. They’ve essentially appeased the HDTV crowd with album cover-type artwork and suggested content based on what you’re searching for. It also eliminates the nuisance of having to drill down through the menus to see what’s going on. TiVo Series3, TiVo HD, and HD XL subscribers are privy to the Beta starting today. I don’t use a TiVo myself, but I know a few of the fellas on staff do and I’m sure they’re happy about this announcement. Are you?

LAS VEGAS, NV. January 7, 2009 —TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), today showed the future of television, unveiling a redesigned TiVo Search feature that offers improved search results with a completely new High Definition design, all at no additional charge. TiVo Search brings users the power of choice, offering millions of pieces of content not available via cable or satellite, along with thousands of linear TV choices. Delivered via broadband, TiVo Search combines a graphics rich experience with simplicity and relevancy that makes it a truly revolutionary way to get more out of your TV.

“What Google did for the Internet, TiVo is now doing for the TV, bringing people a combination of excellent search results and innovative discovery that can’t be found anywhere else,” said Tom Rogers, CEO and President of TiVo Inc. “TiVo has always been known as the best way to watch what you want, when you want it. Now we’re taking that to a new level, using TiVo technology to find just the right program from hundreds of channels and thousands of broadband options, all in seconds. It is clear TiVo is leading the way in providing more choice, and also leading the way in finding content quickly. TiVo Search is a new way to find what you’ve been missing.”

TiVo Search takes advantage of extra screen size afforded by high definition televisions by showing more details about a highlighted program than ever before, eliminating the need to dig down into each and every program to learn what it is about. It ensures the most important information is surfaced right up to the screen you’re already on, equaling less navigation and quick, accurate results.

“One of the best things about the new TiVo Search feature is how it works as a discovery engine, helping users find content they didn’t even know they could get,” said Jim Denney, Vice President of Product Marketing at TiVo Inc. “We’ve added a new discovery bar that gives a quick guide to relevant content, and the search experience incorporates content from broadband sources like Amazon Video on Demand and YouTube. The newly tuned search engine also displays the most popular search results of the day automatically, even when typing only a single letter. Searches work not with just the first word of a title, but any word of the program, which is especially handy when looking for programs with specific search words.”

The new interface not only displays in high definition, it has a focus on finding high definition television content. TiVo search automatically recommends high definition television channels and episodes when users schedule a program to record. Additionally, users can now browse shows season by season and select any episode they want utilizing a robust episode guide. Depending on availability users may record content from cable/antenna, download it from Amazon Video on Demand, or use WishList searches to record it the next time the content is broadcast.

Seeing equals believing, and the new TiVo Search is no exception. Starting today broadband connected TiVo Series3, TiVo HD, and HD XL subscribers can experience a beta version of the feature on their TiVo DVR, which can be found under Music, Photos, and Showcases. For an online preview and to provide your comments and feedback on this new search tool to TiVo visit www.tivo.com/tivosearch.

Leaked 2009 Rogers/Fido roadmap is packed to the brim with smartphones

Greg Kumparak — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 19:05:19 +0000

Yo dawg – Rogers heard you liked smartphones, so they put smartphones in your smartphone so you can smartphone while you smartphone.

But seriously, if you’re a smartphone fan on Rogers/Fido, your brain might just melt in 2009. HoFo-goer clearskies08 managed to sneak spy shots throughout the entirety of the recent employee-only roadmap presentation, bringing back just shy of 30 shots for all to see. Your super spy achievement certificate is waiting for you at the front desk, clearskies08.

So, what’s in store for 2009?

Rogers launches the BlackBerry 8900 Javelin

Greg Kumparak — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:06:10 +0000

After some many months in the works, the BlackBerry 8900 (otherwise known as “Javelin”) has finally made its way out of the labs and onto a shelf near you. Well, by “a shelf near you” we mean “on a shelf at Rogers locations in Canada”. Not, say, the shelf in your bathroom.

Essentially a BlackBerry Bold Lite, the Javelin’s missing 3G, and has a slightly smaller keyboard, slower processor, and a bit less boom in the speaker department. It’s not all a downgrade, however; the screen is slightly higher-res (480×360 vs 480×320), and the camera has been bumped from 2-megapixels to 3.2. If you’re looking to pinch some pennies (though only about $20 bucks worth) on a Bold and don’t mind being stuck with GSM/EDGE, the Javelin should do you well. Expect to walk out the door with one for $179.99 on a 3-year contract.

The $100 Coby Netbook might not be coming after all

Matt Burns — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:00:48 +0000

A story broke the other day indicating that Coby – maker of cheap electronics – will start selling a $100 netbook in Rite Aids and Krogers within a matter of months. It was to be powered by a Chinese-built CPU and run a Linux distro. Well. Ars Technica is calling bull based on some holes in the story. Primarily,

this story, or any announcement regarding a netbook, was not (emphasis theirs) initiated, condoned, or approved by Coby Electronics.

The story does seem to be too good to be true. $100 netbook, built using cheap Chinese tech. Isn’t that the price point non-profits are trying to hit for developing countries but have struggled to hit? And these computers where to be sold in pharmacies and grocery stores? I, for one, wouldn’t mind if this story does in fact turn out to be an unfounded Internet rumor. More as we get it.

Nokia E71 available on Rogers for $49 with 3-yr contract

Devin Coldewey — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:45:49 +0000

I have to say, as interesting a phone as the E71 is, I’m not sure a three year contract is something I’d be willing to agree to. I mean, who does anything for three years? Well, laying out only $50 for all the capabilities of the E71 — full HTML browsing, GPS, tons of stuff available for the S60 OS — is a pretty good deal if you’re already into that Symbian thing. Of course, it’s only available to Canucks at the moment, but if it sells I’m sure we’ll see more of it on this side of the 49th Parallel.

If you’re the type of person who lives in Europe (a “European”), you can always go with the E63, although the performance problems I encountered in the E71 would be exacerbated in that little guy.

[Mobilesyrup via Uber, Unwired]

Nikon breaks the D3x’s cover

Matt Burns — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:22:21 +0000

There once was a time that companies could keep upcoming products under wraps until they were announced in traditional press releases and product catalogs; remember those days? Then the Internet came around and everyone lost company loyalty with spy shots and product leaks, but maybe Nikon actually went back to the ‘ol days with the Nikon D3x.

The upcoming SLR has been spotted in Nikon’s own Pro magazine revealing most of the juicy details. The D3x will have a FX-format, 24.5MP sensor that will shot 5fps at full resolution or 7fps at 10MP. The basic functions of the D3 remain but reportable there has been some ISO tweaks.

It doesn’t matter if these details were intentionally announced or not, the D3x has been outed. Now all we need is a price and launch date.

Update: More pictures, many more specs here at Nikon Rumors.

You got Netflix in my TiVo: Stream Netflix on Series 3, HD, and HD XL boxes

John Biggs — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:00:21 +0000

Where isn’t Netflix anymore? It looks great on the 360, it’s ending up in set-top boxes and media players from multiple makers. Now, if you had the foresight to buy a Series 3, HD, or HD XL you can now stream all of Netflix’s 12,000 streaming titles.

The service will use the same interface used by the 360 and the Roku box. You select films on Netflix.com and then add them to your instant queue. The films stream immediately upon selection. You can enable your TiVo for Netflix downloads by visiting www.tivo.com/netflix.

TIVO AND NETFLIX ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP
TO INSTANTLY STREAM MOVIES AND TV EPISODES
FROM NETFLIX DIRECTLY TO THE TV THROUGH TIVO DVRs

Deal Provides Netflix with New Content Distribution Channel, Solidifies TiVo’s Leading Position as One-Box Solution for Simple Navigation and Delivery
Of the Best Entertainment Content to the TV

ALVISO, Calif. and LOS GATOS, Calif., October 30, 2008 — TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs) and Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX), the world’s largest online movie rental service, today announced that they are teaming up to provide Netflix and TiVo® Series3, TiVo HD, and TiVo HD XL subscribers with the ability to have thousands of movies and TV episodes instantly streamed from Netflix directly to their TVs.

The two companies said they are initiating a test of the new capability today in several thousand U.S. households and expect it to be broadly available in early December, in time for the holidays. The ability to instantly watch content from Netflix on the TV via TiVo DVRs will be offered at no additional charge to customers who subscribe to both services.

The agreement provides Netflix with an important new technology partner to instantly stream a growing library of more than 12,000 choices of movies and TV episodes directly from Netflix to the TV. It also solidifies TiVo’s leading position for simple navigation and delivery of the best entertainment content to the TV.

“For Netflix and TiVo subscribers, this collaboration offers a fabulously easy way to enhance the enjoyment of watching movies in the comfort of their living rooms,” said Reed Hastings, co-founder and CEO of Netflix. “Subscribers to Netflix and TiVo are avid movie watchers and this combination gives them immediate access to all of the great content available through TiVo and the thousands of additional choices available to be streamed instantly from Netflix.”

“Joining forces with Netflix creates the ultimate video on demand service and solidifies TiVo’s leading position as the one-box solution for aggregating, searching, and delivering the best content available anywhere right to the TV,” said Tom Rogers, president and CEO of TiVo Inc. “Adding Netflix to our already vast library of content differentiates TiVo even further from any other offering in the market today.”

Integrating the Netflix streaming functionality into the TiVo experience will result in quick and easy access to a growing list of movies and TV episodes that can be watched instantly at Netflix. Movies streamed from Netflix via specified TiVo DVRs is done through a wired or wireless broadband connection and a Netflix Queue-based user interface. Members visit the Netflix Web site to add movies and TV episodes to their individual instant Queues. Those choices will automatically be displayed on subscribers’ TVs and available to watch instantly through the TiVo service. With the TiVo remote control, users will be able to browse their instant Queue, make selections right on the TV screen, and also have the ability to read synopses and rate movies. In addition, they will have the option of pausing, fast-forwarding, rewinding and re-starting whenever they wish.

For more information on how to have movies instantly streamed from Netflix via your TiVo DVR visit www.tivo.com/netflix.

ASUS Aiguru SV1: The future

John Biggs — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:29:00 +0000

As we learned today, ASUS is releasing a Skype videophone that brings the 25th century to the comfort of your home. The device has a full color camera and mini-screen and brings up your Skype contacts for immediate video calling without a PC. This is basically the best thing ever for grandmothers, mothers, and whoever else you might want to video chat with and who is unable, for whatever reason, to press the green button on Skype to make a call.

No pricing, but it seems that they’re going to release this in October and we’re pretty darned excited. Seriously. This is video calling, just like in Buck Rogers.