del.icio.us links for May 14, 2007 - Apple Related Stories

del.icio.us links for May 14, 2007 – Apple Related Stories

1. Digital World Watch iPod Vids on the Big(ger) Screen – PCWorld.Com

   In order to stand out at the ever-growing iPod party, products need to look cool and/or do something special. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Altec Lansing’s inMotion iMV712, an iPod speaker system with an 8.5-inch screen (available now).

2. The Fake Steve Jobs is… – CNET News.Com

   Silicon Valley types and Apple fans around the world have been laughing at Fake Steve for some time, but now pressure is mounting to figure out who is responsible for such hilarious parody of Jobs, Apple, and the technology industry in general. Valleywag thought it had its man when it called out Leander Kahney, Wired News managing editor and author of the Cult of Mac blog.

3. Slingbox and Apple TV hook up – SlashGear.Com

   Over at Sling Media they’ve obviously not been told about this great rivalry; they’re too busy hooking up an Apple TV to a Slingbox PRO and using it to stream iTunes audio and video.

4. The exercise iPod – PlayListMag.Com

The fastest—and least expensive—way to start using your iPod as a fitness tool is to check out the Podcasts page at the iTunes Store (click on the Podcasts link in the upper left window of the store’s main page). Under Categories, choose Health, and then click on the Fitness & Nutrition link in the More Health window on the Health page. Here you’ll find podcasts on everything from running to conditioning and bodybuilding.

8 more articiles after the Jump

1. The iPhone’s on eBay already – CNET News.Com
   

   The iPhones went up for sale over the weekend, and several auctions are ending today with winning bids around $1,000–well over the starting prices of $499 and $599. Thirty days from today is June 13, smack in the middle of Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference.

   The sellers, however, are going beyond that in promising that they’ll have iPhones from within 30 days of the start of the auctions, which was May 11 for the earliest ones, notes Apple 2.0. That’s June 11, the same day CEO Steve Jobs is expected to address developers gathered for the annual conference in San Francisco.

2. Nokia says iPhone may boost pricier phones – Yahoo! News – Reuters-US

   “The (U.S.) consumer … hasn’t had a lot of choice to go out and purchase these kind of higher-end, feature-rich multimedia devices. If that can help that market grow, I think that gives us an opportunity,” Nokia CFO Rick Simonson said at the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit. The iPhone is Apple’s biggest foray yet into the cutthroat $145 billion consumer electronics industry. Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs has set a goal of selling 1 million units in calendar 2008.

3. Nokia: iPhone will lift phone prices – Electronista.Com

   The high attention given to the Apple device could change attitudes towards smartphones and other media-savvy devices in the US, where cellphone owners are used to less expensive but also more limited handsets, a feature that could play into the hands of Nokia

4. iTunes video, Apple TV ‘dead ends,’ claims researcher – ComputerWorld.Com

   He made the prediction even as Forrester estimated that revenues from video downloads at iTunes, Amazon.com, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s Web site and other online outlets will nearly triple this year, from $98 million last year to $279 million. But because only a fraction of online consumers — just 9% by Forrester’s reckoning — have paid to download a television program or movie,

5. iPod news, iQuiz – PocketGamer.co.uk

   While there are some classy iPod games available through iTunes, they have tended to be a bit predictable – retro arcade games or modern puzzlers in the main. However, the newly-released iQuiz is a bit more innovative.

6. Leopard delay to give developers more time? – MacNN.Com

   SeekingAlpha reports that clues point to Leopard doing away with traditional overlapping windows altogether, and that Apple delayed the next generation of Mac OS X to give developers a head start on porting as well as developing new software for new user interface.

7. MCE offers 250GB MacBook, MacBook Pro upgrades -ComputerWorld.Com

   MCE Technologies today announced its MobileStor Performance 250GB internal hard disk drive upgrade for MacBook and MacBook Pro. The new 5400RPM, 250GB model ships June 1, 2007, for $279.

8. AT&T iPhone not to be pre-sold – The Boy Genius Report

AT&T also states that they will be “the only wireless carrier in the U.S. launching the iPhone and will have exclusivity for the forseeable future.”The document goes on to detail the selling process of the iPhone:

“iPhone will be available sometime in June. The exact date has not been announced, specific dates should not be provided to customers.

Sales for the iPhone will be on a first come, first served basis. No wait list of names will be taken and NO pre-selling is allowed.

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