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Apple Retail Store shopper to Steve Jobs: clerk had no right to ask for my ID

Apple Retail Store shopper to Steve Jobs: clerk had no right to ask for my IDJustifiable policy in my book!Did I miss something ? The guy is ticked because he was asked for some extra ID to show he's indeed the card owner before making a purchase? If some one...

Tags: Sales channel, Retail, Ignacio, Apple Inc., Apple Retail Store shopper, Apple Retail Store, credit card, Steve Jobs

Discussion threads 2008-02-20

New info for Sunday morning: iPhone availability in about two-thirds of Apple retail stores

New info for Sunday morning: iPhone availability in about two-thirds of Apple retail storesiphone internetwill make it easier for us to run our gardening business offgrid.... http://www.go-offgrid.comLet's cut through the hype...There are many ways to creatively look at the iPhone without any of the hype and from a...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Retail Store, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-07-01

New info for Sunday morning: iPhone availability in about two-thirds of Apple retail stores

According to information updated at 9 p.m. PDT Saturday evening an informal canvass of Apple retail stores indicates that about two-thirds of them will have at least some iPhones on hand Sunday.Let's check iPhone availablity in Apple retail stores in the four most popular U.S. states.California will take four screens...

Tags: Apple

Blog posts 2007-06-30

We've checked: All Apple stores have iPhones Saturday morning

Starting at 9 p.m. Pacific Time Friday night, Apple's website has pages where you can see the availability of iPhones at your store.The state-by-state pulldown menu gets you to pages where each state's full inventory of Apple retail stores are listed.As you can see above, a green-color indicates units are...

Tags: Apple

Blog posts 2007-06-30

Additional Resources

iPhone gas application roundup

On 18 June 2008 I published my iPhone app wishlist and I'm happy that most of my most requested applications have been released (Thank you Texas Hold'Em!). Two my most request applications dealt with fuel, specifically a fuel economy tracker and a cheap gas finder. Several iterations...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Vehicle, MPG, AccuFuel, Gas Finder, Roi/Tco, GPS, 3G, Handhelds, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing

On the heels of the release of weaponized exploit code for the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, Microsoft has joined the chorus of security pros pleading with DNS server providers to immediately apply patches to protect users from malicious attacks. The Redmond, Wash. security...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Exploit Code, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Dan Kaminsky, Domain Names, Apple Mac OS X, Networking, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated)

Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...

Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-25

iPhone 3G availability tracker mashup

Looking for an iPhone 3G? Apple provides an iPhone 3G availability application on their retail Web page that lists iPhone availability by store location. The app appears to be offline as of press time. The problem is that Apple's availability application forces you to drill down store...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPhone 3G, Mashup, Chris Barnes, 3G, Collaboration, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Rumor Mill: iPhone to get copy, paste and better navi in firmware 2.1

The most exciting thing around the watercooler today is the rumor that Apple has seeded iPhone firmware 2.1 to developers. MacNN sources tell them that they've found references to cut, copy and paste in the Localizable.strings entry under English.lproj. Woot! According to the story the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Radio, Apple Inc., Firmware, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-25

IDA Disassembler on the iPhone? Yep.

Ilfak Guilfanov has reported that IDA has been ported to the iPhone. Unbelievable? Yes. Is it useful? Who cares! IDA on the iPhone is hot! Don't act like you don't want IDA for your iPhone, you know you do. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, IDA, Blogging, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-T

Hasbro said it has filed suit in the Southern District of New York against Rajat Agarwalla, Jayant Agarwalla, and RJ Softwares, better known as the creators of the popular Facebook application Scrabulous. It was only a matter of time before the Scrabble-Scrabulous feud came to a head, and that...

Tags: Facebook, Hasbro Inc., Games, Intellectual Property, Personal Technology, Research & Development, Business Operations, lawsuit, Scrabulous, Hasbro, Tom Magrino, GameSpot

News items 2008-07-25

Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame

Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...

Tags: Click Fraud, RK West, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-25

News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...

Tags: Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Google's $10M, no, $100M Android Challenge

Google's $10M, no, $100M Android ChallengeI think that Google also needs to make their own self branded phone.They can not depend on existing manufacturers to do it for them. But, after the Google phone takes off, Google might decide to get out of the market.It will be many years before...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Google's $10M, no, $100M Android Challenge

So does Google have anything up its sleeve, when it comes to the Android mobile communications platform? It better have. Because expectations keep getting lowered. And Apple keeps raising the ante, at least in getting attention for new mobile applications. According to a Forbes.com...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Google Inc., Phone, Mobile, Android, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-24

We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!

We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!Linux has no marketing.Market share is directly related to marketing. When is the last time anyone saw a Linux commercial?Isn't that the point?You say that Canonical needs to listen more to the "customers" but...

Tags: Copiers, Operating systems, Desktops, Notebooks, Market-Share, Apple Inc., Ubuntu, wanna-be, Microsoft Corp., photocopier, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

The little wind turbines that could

The little wind turbines that couldAll righty then...Here's the scoop. The average american household uses 14,000 kWh/year, about 1,200 per month in round numbers, meaning a 6kWh generator is about the right size--assuming the wind never dies.I couldn't find prices for Proven Energy, but a Quiet Revolution 6kWh unit costs...

Tags: Engineering, battery, turbine

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then Apple must be feeling pretty flattered now that both Canonical the company behind Ubuntu and Microsoft have expressed a desire to be more like Apple. Start your photocopiers! by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Ubuntu, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Photocopier, Apple Mac OS, Copiers, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Microsoft buys DATAllegro

Microsoft on Thursday said that it will acquire DATAllegro, which makes data warehouse appliances. The purchase is expected to "extend the capabilities of Microsoft's mission critical platform," according to a statement. DATAllegro will ride shotgun with other software to manage data and give the software giant one...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Server, Microsoft Corp., DATAllegro, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spending

Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spendingBallmer Justifies Bottomless PitIt's called his STOMACH.Where is the return on these investments?They are no closer to competing with Google than before Ballmer started this spending spree. When people think "search" they think Google. It's that simple. No one thinks Yahoo or...

Tags: Financial accounting, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, 3M Co.

Discussion threads 2008-07-24