Tag: KEYNOTE

Yesterday, at Intel's CES keynote, Paul Otellini unveiled the AppUp Center, similar to the iTunes App Store but geared toward netbooks and MIDs (Mobile Internet Device). While our friends at Engadget were busy wondering "why you would need an app store for a Windows netbook," and while The Register was inexplicably declaring that Intel was reinventing software sales, we were mulling over the ...

Steve Ballmer took the stage to give the pre-CES keynote yesterday and unveiled a long list of updates and features coming to Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8, the Windows Live family of products, and Xbox. For the sake of simplicity, we've boiled them down into a series bullet points of what to look out for from Microsoft in the coming year. The long and the short of it is that Ballmer barely ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/Apple_announces_final_MacWorld_no_Steve_Jobs_keynote'; Watch this space folks -- it's the end of an era. Apple yesterday issued a press release stating that this coming MacWorld in January will be its last, and Steve Jobs won't be on hand to say goodbye. Instead, Phil Schiller will be heading up the proceedings, thus marking a quiet end to a conference that's ...

We mentioned that rumors were flying about Apple opening the iPhone up to third-party developers. Well, today during his keynote, Jobs revealed exactly how this is going to work. There is no Software Development Kit. Just use the built-in Safari engine to run AJAX based web apps. Wait... So Jobs' idea of opening up the iPhone to developers is to let them run Web apps? This isn't quite as bad as ...

We're sure you're familiar with that gorgeous feature of iTunes called Coverflow that allows you to flip through your albums in glossy 3D. At today's Apple keynote, Mr. Jobs has seen fit to extend that feature to the next version of the Finder, the file browser built into OS X 10.5, otherwise known as Leopard. In a nutshell, you will be able to flip through your files with live 3D previews of ...

A German website claims to have "found" an outline of Steve Jobs' World Wide Developers' Conference speech that will take place later today (1pm Eastern). This is obviously all speculation and rumor but here go the highlights: New iMacs - Brushed metal, LED backlight, Santa Rosa. .mac now free with purchase of Mac computers. "Oh, and one more thing..." iPhone@home. According to the ...