2008年6月12日のブックマーク (10件)

  • AT&T: New Low Price Will Move iPhones to Mass Market

    By Saul Hansell June 9, 2008 7:25 pm June 9, 2008 7:25 pm AT&T restructured its deal with Apple, said Ralph de la Vega, the chief executive of AT&T Mobility, in order to overcome resistance from mass consumers to the high $399 price of the iPhone. Now, instead of paying Apple a portion of their monthly fees, carriers like AT&T will make a large payment to Apple every time an iPhone is sold and att

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    Saul Hansell notes Ralph de la Vega, "“I don’t have any visions of lowering the price more than that any time soon,” he said. “The Razr is a much less expensive phone, if you will. This is a PDA, an iPod, and has much more capability.”"
  • Steven Levy on the New Apple 3G iPhone

    Published Jun 08, 2008 at 8:00 PM EDT Updated Mar 13, 2010 at 7:12 PM EST Steve Jobs always tries to save the best for last. Today, at the end of his keynote speech at the Apple Worldwide Developer's Conference, he unleashed a kicker that he knew would make some headlines. Everybody knew that the big product announcement was going to be a souped-up version of the iPhone that exchanged the molasses

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    Levy predicts, "Is it possible for Apple or anyone else to rule in the mobile realm the way Microsoft did on the desktop? The way to do this is to go mass-market with a device that can do anything the others can do. That's why Apple is creating business-oriented apps like exchange-style mail, ..."
  • Apple: Welcome To 3G Monday

    It's 3G Monday: Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs later this morning will give a keynote address at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference at Moscone West in San Francisco. Jobs is widely expected to use the event as a launching pad for a new 3G version of the iPhone. There's also speculation about new 2.5G phones, new Macs, and maybe a preview of the next version of OSX. But it's the 3G iPhone t

    Apple: Welcome To 3G Monday
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    Eric Savitz ponders, "Will they continue to offer a 2.5G model? You might not want one, but 3G coverage is not as ubiquitous as 2.5G, so it will might be the right choice for some customers."
  • The Times & The Sunday Times

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    Jonathan Richards cites Joe Svetlik, "Apple keeps schtum about announcements, but everyone's set on the new device being 3G, and there's also a possibility they might introduce two different sizes - one with a bigger screen - which would the experience of watching a movie much better.""
  • John Gage joins top VC firm Kleiner Perkins

    Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm that backed companies like Genentech, Netscape, Amazon.com and Google, said it has hired well-known Sun scientist John Gage as partner. Gage, an early employee at Sun Microsystems, who more recently had become that company’s chief scientist, will provide “counsel to the firms’ global network of entrepreneurs, scientists, aca

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    Matt Marshall notes, "Gage catalyzed the company’s popular Java One conference, and created NetDay, a volunteer project by high-tech companies to connect schools and libraries to the Internet."
  • Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

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    Kharif notes, "iPhone users will likely be able to browse and buy applications with one click. "It's going to encourage impulsive buying," says Dalton. ..., the store will encourage impulsive downloading, as most applications offered there will likely be free, but display revenue-producing ads."
  • Start-up incubator opens downtown

    For University Avenue businessman, it's location, location, location by Arden Pennell / Palo Alto Weekly Uploaded: Thu, Jun 5, 2008, 2:51 pm 0 Time to read: about 4 minutes Running a fledgling start-up company out of a garage may sound romantic, but local entrepreneur Saeed Amidi has a different idea for young companies. He's designed a sort of entrepreneurship ecosystem with his Plug and Play Tec

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    Arden Pannell interviews Mohammad Subeh, "While normal incubators take shares in companies, Amidi's centers don't necessarily, he said. But he can choose to give funding through his family's investment firm Amidzad. Amidzad invested in EatLime, for example."
  • Video Sharer EatLime Gets Funding From DFJ

    You probably thought the world had enough video sharing sites, but you'd be wrong? EatLime, based in Sunnyvale, CA, has raised unspecified funds from DFJ, Amidzad Partners, and various angels, reports NewTeeVee. The company's angle: faster uploads (it claims) and the ability to watch a video instantly, even as it's uploading, as opposed to waiting for the whole thing to upload, and then waiting fo

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    Weisenthal says, "You probably thought the world had enough video sharing sites, but you'd be wrong? EatLime, based in Sunnyvale, CA, has raised unspecified funds from DFJ, ... The company's angle: faster uploads (it claims) and the ability to watch a video instantly, even as it's uploading, ..."
  • The WIP Contributors: Crowdsourcing Strategy Draws Hot and Cool Reactions in Silicon Valley

    by Genie Z. Laborde - USA - It's hot because most people don’t know about it yet and it's cool because it makes money. Crowdsourcing is a way for companies to enlist the help of their own Internet clients to produce their products. Utilizing the "wisdom of the crowd" to its advantage, crowdsourcing attracts customers, content and "clicks" or traffic to a website or online company. The amateur pro

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    Genie Z. Laborde takes examples, "This problem was nicely balanced by Jeff Howe's story of the T-shirt company, ...If their facial expressions reflected their internal dialog, their position seemed to be, ‘Let's wait and see if this holds up over time. "
  • The Wiki-Way to the Nomination (Published 2008)

    A COLLABORATION Something like 75,000 people showed up at an Obama rally last month in Portland, Ore. Without a doubt, more than one supporter got there by way of the Internet.Credit...Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Barack Obama is the victor, and the Internet is taking the bows. Commenting on the Democratic presidential primary campaign, the blogger Andrew Sullivan praised Mr. Obama’s success in ma

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    Noam Cohen summarizes, "But at the same time, Mr. Obama’s notion of persistent improvement, both of himself and of his country, reflects something newer — the collaborative, decentralized principles behind Net projects like Wikipedia and the “free and open-source software” movement."