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“We’re starting to do some things differently,” Phil Schiller said to me. We were sitting in a comfortable hotel suite in Manhattan just over a week ago. I’d been summoned a few days earlier by Apple PR with the offer of a private “product briefing”. I had no idea heading...
Sony's multimedia-centric VAIO F gets folded into new 15-inch VAIO S 15
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Sony is using its latest product announcement to trim the fat off of its line-up, and one of the casualties will be its multimedia-centric VAIO F Series. Of course, the company won't be ditching entertainment laptops altogether -- it's just consolidating the VAIO F line into the VAIO S...
Yep, it’s a tablet: Microsoft introduces the Surface
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Microsoft unveiled an elaborately shrouded product announcement Monday, showing off a new Windows 8-based tablet called the Surface at a press event in Hollywood. Microsoft CEO Steven Ballmer took the stage at a small Hollywood production facility to introduce the new product, which the company hopes can cut into the...
Disrupt NYC 2012: The Agenda
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Good morning everybody! It’s beginning to look a lot like NYC Disrupt time (seriously, Disrupt is a force of nature in more ways than one). For those of you wondering why we haven’t been returning email/phone calls/telegrams/carrier pigeons, TechCrunch Disrupt NYC is happening in two weeks, starting May 21st and...
Google holds its breath and tries to sow doubt about Apple’s upcoming maps feature
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Earlier today Google hosted an event that it called “The Next Dimension of Google Maps.” But the event wasn’t really about Google Maps, it was about Apple. Specifically, it’s about the fact that Apple is preparing to announce that it is dropping Google Maps from its Maps app in favor...
Tim Cook: We Are Going To Blow You Away In Two Weeks (AAPL)
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Apple CEO Tim Cook has disappointed people who expected him to make a product announcement at D10, the high-powered tech conference taking place this week in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. Cook teased the crowd by mentioning "the things I cannot talk about today," according to AllThingsD's liveblog of the event. "We...
Yahoo vs. Facebook: This just got very awkward for Microsoft
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Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Yahoo grabbed the attention of the tech industry today, but not with a new product announcement. The company filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook, under the leadership of new CEO Scott Thompson. In other words, one of Microsoft’s biggest partners just sued another of Microsoft’s...
Microsoft Tries on Apple’s Buzz-Inciting Mystery
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More proof that everyone in techland, including Microsoft, cribs liberally from Apple’s hype-generating playbook with an invite for a mysterious product announcement....
After One Tweet, Larry Ellison Takes a Break
www.wired.com
Larry Ellison has taken to Twitter to pitch the cloud. Photo: Oracle When Oracle CEO Larry Ellison started using Facebook a few years ago, he couldn’t stop using the social network. Not so with Twitter, apparently. Ellison started using Twitter yesterday. So far, he’s racked up more than 23,000 followers,...
New Modbook announcement teased for Thursday
www.electronista.com
A teaser image on Facebook materialized earlier today, showcasing what appears to be a new OS X Modbook tablet conversion. The Modbook was originally a plastic-cased MacBook converted by engineers at Axiotron into a 13-inch pen-controlled tablet. The intellectual property has been purchased by a new company now bearing the...
Smile, You're On (Digital) Camera: TASER's New Police Minicam And The Cloud
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TASER, best known for their electric shock guns, has a new product: Tiny, sunglass-mounted cameras that upload live footage from a cop's POV to the cloud. The idea? They will help prevent police brutality lawsuits and increase accountability.TASER has unveiled a line of lightweight, cloud-enabled cameras for police officers to...
We’ll be reporting live from Microsoft’s event today at 6:30PM
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Microsoft will hold a press conference on Monday to make a major product announcement, and the company did its best to ensure the topic of the evening’s presentation was kept under wraps. In fact, Microsoft hasn’t even shared the location of the event yet with publications that will be...
The Key To Developing on Twitter's Platform Is Being Complementary
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There has been quite a bit of consternation on the part of developers over Twitter’s future in the past month or so. The fault lies with Twitter, because of communication issues, but also with followers of the company, who don’t necessarily understand where the company is headed. The best outlook...
Samsung Preparing To Reveal "Newest Galaxy Device" On August 15
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Here’s a little something to get the ol’ rumor mill churning before the weekend — Samsung has just sent out a save-the-date email for a “major” product announcement on August 15. Samsung goes on to say that it will unveil its “newest GALAXY device,” though exactly what that’s going to...
Facebook logout ad price equal to takeovers on other sites; advertisers still question value
www.insidefacebook.com
Facebook’s initial asking price for premium ads including placement on the logout page was $700,000 per day in the U.S., according to an Ad Age source who was briefed before the product announcement at the end of February. The figure is a total price for the large logout display and...
Apple's Steve Jobs in your in box
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It just takes one word for Apple Inc. to make headlines."Yep," wrote Apple chief Steve Jobs in an e-mail.The message was addressed to Andrea Nepori, an Italian blogger who wrote to sjobs@apple.com this week. He asked the high-profile yet reclusive CEO whether he'd be able to sync his catalog of...
SXSW: Digg.com Teases Ambitious New Version
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Image via CrunchBaseDigg.com's annual "shindiggs" have become something of an institution at SXSW Interactive, but this year Digg's CEO Jay Adelson tried to slip a genuine product announcement into the evening's festivities. Adelson took the stage at Stubbs BBQ and announced Digg's bold new vision for the future in front...
iPad 3 Event in March, A 'Strange' Event in February?
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Japanese blog Macotakara has posted a follow-up to their previous claim of a February iPad 3 media event. The original report had claimed that Apple would hold an iPad 3 media event in February with product launch in March. We had expressed some doubts about the long lead time between...
Get the Latest on Twitter with Bing Social Search
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Have you ever searched for information on something that is happening right now, only to find out that there’s nothing matching what you’re looking for? News on an earthquake that just happened or information on a hot new product announcement may not show up until hours after the event actually...
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