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John Paczkowski in News on April 25 at 8:55 am PT
Apple will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 11 through June 15 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, the company said this morning. But if you’re hoping to attend, I’m afraid you’re out of luck. Tickets for the event sold out about two hours after they first went on sale. That’s 10 hours faster than the $1,600 tickets sold out last year.
John Paczkowski in News on March 29, 2011 at 7:00 am PT
Ten hours. That’s all it took for this year’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference to sell out. Tickets went on sale at 8:30 AM ET Monday and by 6:30 PM there were none left.
Kara Swisher in News on September 30, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
In April, Cisco unveiled a wide-ranging collaboration with Aliph–a San Francisco start-up that is famous for the noise-canceling Jawbone Bluetooth mobile headset–to deploy its software and device in Cisco’s IP phones in the enterprise.
It launches today.
The idea is to use the Jawbone device and the software that manages it to allow workers to move around an office and have the call move with them, echoing increasingly mobile consumer behavior.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on June 23, 2010 at 5:20 am PT
Apple’s iTunes App Store may be the biggest mobile application around, but it’s not much of a revenue generator. The company claims it runs the App Store at “a bit over break-even,” and according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, that is indeed the case.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on June 22, 2010 at 3:09 pm PT
“This is really hot,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs said of the iPhone 4 when he unveiled it at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this month. And the pundits seem to agree. The first reviews of the device began rolling in Tuesday afternoon and they are largely glowing. After the jump, excerpts from a few of them.
John Paczkowski in News on June 18, 2010 at 7:25 am PT
Here is a good explanation for why the forthcoming iMovie app from Apple will run on the iPhone 4, but not on its predecessor, the 3GS: The new model has double the memory. Video of a Worldwide Developers Conference session released Thursday confirms rumors that the device is packing 512MB of RAM.
Kara Swisher in News on June 12, 2010 at 12:55 am PT
How in the world did BoomTown miss these very funny new puppets from 1938 Media of Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook?
Here are the videos.
Kara Swisher in News on June 8, 2010 at 6:17 pm PT
The first thing to strike you about the pair of Stanford University graduate students who made the banned and then unbanned news-reading iPad app, Pulse News Reader, is how they look like an advertisement for all that is good about entrepreneurship.
Sweet-natured, slightly naive, energetic and very product focused, they are the last techies you’d choose to be the ones who got the New York Times in enough of a tizzy to force Apple to pull the news aggregator from its App Store.
See for yourself in this video.
Kara Swisher in News on June 8, 2010 at 4:06 am PT
BoomTown attended the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco yesterday with my partner in (tech) crime, Walt Mossberg.
After the speech by Apple CEO Steve Jobs–in which he unveiled a major upgrade to its popular smartphone, now called iPhone 4–Walt and I went to check out what all the fuss was about at demo tables outside the giant hall at the Moscone Center West.
Of course, we made this movie of us using the new FaceTime video-calling feature, which allows video chat on the iPhone 4 via Wi-Fi.
Kara Swisher in News on June 7, 2010 at 4:55 pm PT
Here’s a very funny iPhone 4 spoof by take180.com’s Electric Spoofalo that just went up on the Web.
The new version of the popular Apple smartphone was just unveiled today by CEO Steve Jobs at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Called “Mac vs. Jane Lynch,” the spoof features BoomTown’s pal and “Glee” star–congrats to you and Lara on the hitching, btw!–and comic Kassem G.
