Folks, it’s official: if you plunked down big buck$ for those U.S. Presidential Inaugural tickets in the front row, you most likely just gave your money to a spammer, con artist, and/or identity thief.
The feds’ stance is quite simple: the tickets are free and are going to be doled out to the various Congress reps [...]
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As I sit here, steeling myself for the trip to the polling place (a nearby elementary school, in my case), I’m watching a bit of TV on my Mac Pro, seeing how the early voting is coming along. I thought it was bizarre to see Obama looking over his wife’s shoulder while both were voting [...]
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Tomorrow, Microsoft’s [MSFT] Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2008 starts, and runs until October 30, 2008.
In addition to a schedule chock-full of content for developers, there is some anticipation among the reporters and analysts that maybe more details will be revealed about Windows 7.
N.B.
If you aren’t able to attend PDC 2008, but you want [...]
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Just in time for the holiday season, and to entice the developer community to reconsider the “big wigs” for the next year:
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has announced that next year’s E3 will be held June 2-4, at the Los Angeles Convention Center again. The earlier date gives game developers additional time to get their [...]
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Hurry up, before it’s too late!
For those of you who were wondering what that odd blurb in the booklet and the inside jacket of your Soulcalibur IV game case was all about… the tournament for Namco’s Soulcalibur IV has officially kicked off. Already, the first of the three Brackets has filled up.
However, you still have a chance [...]
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Xbox LIVE
RIM [RIMM] is having its annual developer conference for its BlackBerry devices soon: the event starts on October 20, 2008, and the online registration is wraps up soon (October 17). Check the posted site for the amended schedule.
With the massive new interest in building mobile software products to flood the segments of the respective market [...]
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I had a few minutes to browse around, so I drifted over to the Apple’s [AAPL] online Apple Store… And, guess what I saw?
Yep. It’s closed for the time being… Remember today’s product announcement?
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Apple [AAPL] is set to announce its October products later today. In fact, in just a scant few hours, the meeting with kick off, with the typical reporter, fan, and insider foci on the event.
The Right Stuff?
A lot of rumors (and “real” and fake photos of new MacBook cases) have been floating around the blogosphere [...]
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MacBook Pro,
Nvidia
A Little Bit:
The announcement for the next Apple [AAPL] product announcement session appears to be October 14, 2008.
The cryptic, yet suggestive, tagline is: The spotlight turns to notebooks.
Engadget has confirmed that the announcements will solidify the rumors that started before last month’s iPod product announcements that the Apple notebooks, predominantly the MacBooks and MacBook Pros, would [...]
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Judging from how quickly almost all of Apple’s [AAPL] free iPhone Tech Talk World Tour sessions have filled, it appears that developer interest in the iPhone (and iPod touch) is still very much alive, at least in the U.S.
Of course, it may have something to do with the free aspect of the tech sessions. Plus, [...]
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iPod touch