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August 10, 2007

Apple redesigns iMovie... much simpler! (video)

At the last Apple event, Steve Jobs' unveiled a completely new and redesigned iMovie. The creation of the new Apple movie editor started serendipituously ... at least according to Prophet Jobs who mentioned a "brilliant" Apple engineer who couldn't...

August 09, 2007

iFixIt shows how to replace your "dead" iPhone battery... not Apple! (video)

On the sidelines of the Flash Memory Summit today, I met with iFixIt CEO, Kyle Wien, to talk about his San Luis Obispo company (about 2 hours South of Silicon Valley).iFixIt helps consumers repair their own Apple laptops, iPods...

New 20" iMac cheaper than 19" All-in-One from Gateway, HP and Sony (video)

I thought, I'd take on Steve Jobs challenge, when last Monday while unveiling the new iMacs, the Apple chief suggested Apple's computers were not necessarily the pricier alternatives they are generally perceive to be. It took me a while to...

August 08, 2007

Sandisk CEO denies building new chip plant with Hynix

At the Flash Memory Summit today in Santa Clara, Sandisk CEO, Eli Harari, denied plans to set up a flash-memory-chip factory with South Korean Hynix Semiconductor. Contradicting an earlier report from the Wall Street Journal published last Monday and on...

August 07, 2007

With Numbers, Microsoft Office has no more "raison d'être" on my Mac (video)

At the Apple launch today, Steve Jobs showed Numbers, the company's new spreadsheet application and part of the iWork 08 office suite. Although Numbers does not support Excel macros (which I don't use anyway), it does a good enough job...

We can't ship junk... [like Dell or HP] and we're cheaper, says Apple chief

At the iMac launch today, I found Steve Jobs more aggressive than usual towards his PC competitors like Dell or HP. The most virulent comments of his diatribe I thought were: "There's some stuff in our industry that we wouldn't...