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Apple Tablet Seen as Great for Gaming

January 25th, 2010 | No Comments

News Analysis: There is consensus building that the Apple tablet will be a gaming device geared to support basic social gaming applications of the type people use on Facebook, as well as multiplayer games. Jeff Scott, founder and publisher of the 148Apps blog, says publications that cover the gaming arena have been invited to the upcoming special Apple event. He also says a screen resolution of at least 640 by 800 and a stronger processor than the one powering Apple’s iPhone 3GS will make the tablet well suited for games.
– Apple executives will take the stage at Yerba Buena Gardens in San
Francisco Jan. 27, and are expected to unveil the
anticipated Apple tablet computer.
There is a lot of information seeping through the reality distortion field
around the device, the official name of which (iSlate? iPad? iTablet…

Apple 2010 Earnings Will Likely Be Affected by Tablet

January 24th, 2010 | No Comments

Apple will announce quarterly earnings on Jan. 25, followed by the likely debut of a tablet PC in a San Francisco presentation on Jan. 27. Analysts predict that Apple’s quarterly earnings will rise yet again, buoyed by strong Mac sales, but questions remain about how an Apple tablet would affect the company’s future revenue. A new survey suggests that potential buyers would shy away from a tablet if the price is above $700 or if the mobile device forces them to purchase a new data plan.
– Apple has a big week ahead of it: Not only is the company’s long-rumored
tablet PC expected to make its debut during a San
Francisco presentation on Jan. 27, but it will also
announce quarterly earnings on Jan. 25.
Despite the economic recession dragging down revenue for a number of tech
compa…

Apple Announces Launch Event, Rumored in Talks with HarperCollins

January 19th, 2010 | No Comments

Apple will host a launch event for its latest creation in San Francisco on Jan. 27, in what many media and analysts expect will be the rollout for the long-rumored tablet PC. At the same time, several media outlets are reporting Apple in negotiations with HarperCollins Publishers, and possibly other publishing houses, to port content onto the hypothetical device. Although Apple has refused to officially confirm it is working on a tablet PC, months of rumors and analyst conjecture have driven chatter that the company is indeed developing something big.
– Apple will debut its quot;latest creation quot; in San
Francisco on Jan. 27, according to an official invite
sent to media and analysts, who widely expect the device in question to be a
tablet PC.

In typical Apple fashion, the invitation itself is short on details and
big on style, featurin…

Palm Launches Alpha of New Development Platform: Ares

December 11th, 2009 | No Comments

Palm releases its new mobile development platform, known as Ares, to testing.
– Palm has released its new mobile development platform, known as Ares, to
testing.
First previewed at the Open Mobile Summit in San
Francisco in November, Palm’s Ares is a Web-based
development platform for Palm WebOS applications.
According to reports about the demonstration Palm made of Ares a…

ATandT Promises Network Improvements, Hints at Data Caps

December 9th, 2009 | No Comments

AT T exec Ralph de la Vega tells a U.S. Bancorp investor conference that AT T is upgrading its networks in San Francisco and New York to handle network traffic in these iPhone-heavy markets, but warns pricing changes may still be in the works for bandwidth hogs. According to AT T, 3 percent of users are eating up 40 percent of the carrier’s network capacity.
– Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO of
AT amp;T Mobility and Consumer Markets, had both good news and bad news Dec. 9
for iPhone users: AT amp;T is moving to improve service in iPhone-heavy San
Francisco and New York,
but the company also warned that quot;some form of usage-based pricing for
d…

How Twitter Search Will Help Google, Microsoft Bing

October 28th, 2009 | No Comments

News Analysis: Microsoft’s recently launched Bing Twitter site is indexing tweets in real time. Not to be outdone, Google promises that Twitter content will be integrated into Google’s search results page in a few months. Yahoo is allegedly working on real-time search with startup OneRiot. What are the implications? eWEEK solicits insight from search guru Danny Sullivan, social media expert Charlene Li and Gerry Campbell, CEO of real-time search startup Collecta. But perhaps the best answer lies in the Facebook phenomenon and the way real-time search fosters engagement at search sites.
– One week ago today on Oct. 21, Microsoft and Google both announced
deals to index Twitter messages at the Web 2.0 Summit in San
Francisco.
Microsoft launched its Bing Twitter site for indexing tweets in real time. Not to be
outdone, Google promised that Twitter content will be integrated into
G…