Archive | June 7th, 2010

FaceTime: video chat on the iPhone 4

Posted on 07 June 2010

The future has officially arrived, ladies and gentlemen: El Steve just made a video call to Jony Ive as part of his famous “One more thing” sequence of the Apple WWDC.

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Confirmed: Bing Added As Search Option On The iPhone

Posted on 07 June 2010

Today at Apple’s developer conference (read our livenotes ), Steve Jobs announced that the iPhone will new getting a new search engine option: Bing. We heard rumblings of a deal in late May. Currently, Google is the default search engine on the iPhone, which can be changed to Yahoo in the settings.

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Apple To Surpass 100 Million iOS Devices Sold This Month

Posted on 07 June 2010

Today at the WWDC keynote address, Apple CEO Steve Jobs did a bit of tidying up. When talking about the new iPhone OS 4, Jobs noted that they were renaming the OS to be simply “iOS.” This is obviously because the iPhone OS has extended beyond the iPhone and onto new devices such as the iPad. Jobs also had a bit stat to throw out there: later this month, Apple will surpass 100 million iOS devices sold.

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Thin Is In As The iPhone 4 Surpasses What The Human Retina Can See

Posted on 07 June 2010

Today at the WWDC keynote in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the newest iPhone — the iPhone 4. Jobs didn’t dance around the fact that the device has been seen before. While he didn’t mention Gizmodo specifically, he did note that, “ now, some of you have already seen this .” But he quipped, “ believe me, you ain’t seen it

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Apple Has Paid $1 Billion To App Developers (And Other Key Stats)

Posted on 07 June 2010

Today at the WWDC event in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage for his keynote address. During it, he gave some key stats about three key pillars of Apple’s recent strategy: the iPad, the App Store, and the new iBooks store. First, the key iPad stats: There have been 2 million iPads sold in 59 days.

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What Happened to the iPad Today? A Few Small Things

Posted on 07 June 2010

The iPad just sold 2 million units in two months, a pretty huge number for a device with no track record and it does, in fact, get girls interested in you. The device is in 10 countries today and will be in 19 in July. There are also 8,500 native iPad apps available now

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Veoh Founder Dmitry Shapiro Joins MySpace Music As CTO

Posted on 07 June 2010

Dmitry Shapiro , the founder and CEO of shuttered video site Veoh, is joining MySpace Music today as Chief Technology Officer. Shapiro will report directly to Courtney Holt , President of MySpace Music.

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Live from Apple’s 2010 WWDC Keynote

Posted on 07 June 2010

It’s time. After months of whispers, leaks, lost prototypes , and police raids, it all leads up to this: Steve Jobs’ keynote at WWDC 2010.

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OpenPeak Raises $52 Million From Intel Capital And Others For iPad Rival

Posted on 07 June 2010

OpenPeak , a company that develops multimedia touch-screen devices and device management platforms, has secured an additional $52 million of financing from Intel Capital , Horizon Technology Finance and Velocity Financial Group. The company recently announced the OpenTablet 7, a portable, touch-screen device that is similar in many ways to Apple’s iPad. The investment from Intel isn’t surprising considering that OpenPeak’s device is based on Intel’s Moorestown platform

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Tony Hsieh Explains Why He Sold Zappos To Amazon Under Pressure From Sequoia

Posted on 07 June 2010

There’s an interesting article up on Inc.com that reveals interesting tidbits about the backstory to the 2009 acquisition of online shoes and clothing retailer Zappos by Amazon for roughly $1.2 billion in stock.

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