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Media (Apple)

Submission + - Apple sells 1 millionth iPhone (cnn.com)

Submitted by PreacherTom
PreacherTom writes: Apple sold its millionth iPhone over the weekend, days after it slashed the price by a third to spur sales. It took just 74 days for the combination cell phone-iPod to hit the 1 million mark, which Apple had said it would achieve by the end of September. By comparison, it took two years for the company to sell 1 million iPods, Apple CEO Steve Jobs noted in a statement.
Communications

Submission + - iPhone Sales Fail Expectations (msn.com) 1

Submitted by PreacherTom
PreacherTom writes: Apparently, Steve's latest isn't doing quite as well as everyone hoped. The iPhone was introduced June 29, leaving only two days in the second quarter, and in Apple's fiscal third quarter, for the iPhone to take off. Analysts had forecast between 200,000 and 500,000 activations in those two days. The reality: only 146,000 units were sold. "The reaction is pretty appropriate. Expectations certainly were for a lot more than 150,000 units. Even though it's just two-day sales, it's a reality check," added Pacific Crest analyst Andy Hargreaves.

Comment Not exactly a cash cow... (Score 1) 245

by PreacherTom (#18765609) Attached to: Customers Treated as Culprits in Support Calls?
The truth of the matter is that customer service departments lose money. The only one that I've heard of that has not at some period is Apple, and that is when their (well-trained, fluent, located in Texas) reps were selling things during the calls. In the eyes of the company, the first goal of the rep isn't necessarily to help, it is simply to make you disappear without complaining too much.
Windows

Submission + - Gaming Post-Vista: Myths and Realities

Submitted by
Ant
Ant writes: "This Ten Ton Hammer article answers personal computer/PC gamers' question on what's coming their way with Microsoft's newest operating system/OS, Windows Vista. With the PC primed to be the primary distribution platform for gaming categories (like Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing games/MMORPGs in particular) for many years to come, it's important to know exactly what we're getting into when Vista rolls out worldwide on January 30, 2007. Jeff "Ethec" Woleslagle offers a quick, non-technical rebuttal to several of the more ambitious PC gaming rumors cropping up around the internet. Seen on Blue's News."
PHP

Submission + - Scientists regrow chicken wing

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Unlike salamanders and lizards, most animals have lost the ability to replace missing limbs. But a research team in San Diego has been able to regenerate a wing in a chick embryo — a species not known to be able to regrow limbs — suggesting the potential for such regeneration exists innately in all vertebrates, including humans.
PC Games (Games)

Submission + - WoW: Burning Crusade or Banning Jihad?

Submitted by Trashbringer
Trashbringer writes: As a follow up to an earlier story, apparently it was not Blizzard's intent to ban World of Warcraft players specifically for running the client on Linux . Linux users are just a few among those whose accounts have been erroneously closed along side those of actual botters and hackers. So far Blizzard hasn't confessed they've mistakenly banned anyone. To make matters worse, Blizzard doesn't have a telephone number to contact them if you were banned, nor can banned players post in their support forums! Currently, the only option is to email them and wait an unspecified amount of time for a response. How's that for customer service?
Sci-Fi

Submission + - Shatner Says Abrams Wants Him and Nimoy in Trek XI

Submitted by
Blue Fox USA
Blue Fox USA writes: "From TrekMovie.com: "William Shatner appeared at a couple of Trek conventions over the weekend and gave some more details from his conversations with Star Trek XI Producer J.J. Abrams. According to TrekWeb, Shatner again confirmed that the characters of Kirk and Spock would be in the film, telling the crowd in Springfield, MA that "I had a talk with J.J. Abrams a while ago and they were writing a new script — and we are all hoping it will be wonderful...and he said, they were going to get the Kirk and Spock characters in there." The next day Shatner was in New York where Doug Wilson of TrekCore.com reports Shatner as saying "J.J. [Abrams] is committed to having Leonard and I, Leonard and me, in the film." Shatner also suggested that Abrams would be looking at unkowns for the roles of the younger Kirk and Spock.""
Communications

Submission + - Ads to get put on cell phones

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: It's bad enough that commercials are being served up online, on radio and on TV, now Yahoo! has done a deal in the UK with Vodafone to put them on cell phones. The advantage of this according to Nick Read, chief executive of Vodafone UK, is that "customers who choose to receive targeted messages get better value, as well as a richer mobile experience." I'm no expert in the field but surely getting ads on your cell phone doesn't make for a 'richer mobile experience'.
AMD/OSTG

Journal Journal: AMD achieves target of 15% Notebook CPU Market Share

Journal by OSTG Marketing
Last year, AMD set a goal of sharing 15% of total Notebook CPU market . In the first three quarters of 2006, AMD has shipped 2.85M Notebook CPUs, achieving their goal. "In the value market, the most common products are AMD Turion 64 and budget 32 bit Semperon processors. While in the mainstream market, Turion 64x2 formed the flagship range. By the advance of technology, pricing of mobile computer has reached a lowest point and
Wireless Networking

Submission + - Beyond 3G: Practical Cellular Internet Access

Submitted by PreacherTom
PreacherTom writes: For years 3G, or "third generation," denoted some future wireless utopia where voice, data, and video would all merge into a wondrous amalgam, marked by snazzy phones that do everything perfectly — and fast. There is indeed a new wireless utopia, and again, it's about merging voice, data, and all the other stuff at even faster speeds. It is known as High-Speed Downlink Packet Access, or HSDPA, and it has started appearing on wireless networks operated by companies such as Vodaphone in Europe and Cingular Wireless in the U.S. Meanwhile, South Korea's Samsung has even started building HSDPA-ready phones. The technology promises wireless speeds as high as 3.6 Mbps but in practice will be much slower than that — fast enough, though, to make wirelessly surfing the Web and downloading music and video well worth the effort.
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Dodging the IRS...Online

Submitted by PreacherTom
PreacherTom writes: Once upon a time, the term "money laundering" brought pictures of Big Al, bookkeepers, and prohibition to mind. Still, like everything else, it has come into the age of technology. A new report filed by the Financial Action Task Force — an international organization based in France that develops recommendations for combating money laundering and terrorism financing — details just how pervasive online money laundering has become and gives details on this multi-billion dollar criminal industry.
Google

Submission + - Google Goes Offline

Submitted by PreacherTom
PreacherTom writes: Google is rolling out its most ambitious print advertising initiative yet, an online marketplace that will let advertisers place bids on space in more than 50 major newspapers across the U.S. The search giant will launch an alpha test of Google Print Ads this week. Since last fall, Google has tried at least three small-scale experiments with placing print ads in newspapers and magazines with mixed success. This, though, is the first full-scale effort. "It might start changing the way we do certain things," says Peter Gardiner, chief media officer for New York agency Deutsch. "But the whole world is changing right now."

Conducting an International Job Search? 34

Posted by Cliff from the overseas-classifieds dept.
An anonymous reader asks: "Ask Slashdot recently did a question about leaving America for someplace else, and that got me thinking — for those that left, how did you get started? After you had picked your destination country, did you just hop on a plane and look from there, if so how much money did you keep in reserve? Did you find the job before you went? What is the best site to look at for international job postings?"
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Embraces Open Source

Submitted by
Gunny
Gunny writes: "In a joint letter to the Open Source Community, Microsoft and Novell announced that they would be directly collaborating together on open source projects, namely the use of mixed Linux/Windows IT solutions. From the article:

Why is Microsoft doing this? Because they recognize that customers today are deploying mixed source solutions — Windows and Linux — and they want these solutions to work well together. This will help Microsoft by making it easier for Linux customers to deploy Windows in their Linux environments. Microsoft is committing significant resources to promote joint Windows-Linux solutions. This is all about co-existence and giving customers greater choice.

More importantly, Microsoft has pledged not to assert its patents against individual, non-commercial open source developers, as part of it's agreement with Novell. Microsoft will recommend SUSE Enterprise Linux to it's customers who want Linux solutions."

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