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Apple Tablet Price Slips out as does Other Product(s)

by Jay Garrett on January 26, 2010

Not long now.

Apple’s ‘latest creation’ should appear in a few short hours and the loose lips have started.

A German electronics retailer apparently Tweeted the European launch date and pricing for the Apple iSlate.

Ooopsy!

Media Markt let slip that the iSlate would cost 499 Euros on a T-Mobile contract, or 899 Euros without which, if all things remain equal, would look at UK fanboys and girls needing £436 for one with a contract and an ouchy £786 without on March 1st.

That contract free price is a tad steep dontcha think? Either that or this tablet is going to truly amaze.

Even though Apple’s Q1 figures show a 50% increase CFO Peter Oppenheimer has admitted that the app store and iTunes aren’t exactly making the wad. He said “Regarding the App Store and the iTunes Store, we’re running those a bit over break-even, and that hasn’t changed, We’re very excited to be providing our developers with just a fabulous opportunity, and we think that’s helping us a lot with the iPhone and the iPod touch platforms.”

That’s not really the big news though. That came thanks to another slip, this time from Apple COO Tim Cook.

When he replied to questions regarding the tablet from shareholders with the line:

“I wouldn’t want to take away your joy and surprise on Wednesday when you see our latest creations.”

Whoa!

What was that?

‘Creations’? – as in plural? Is this going to be the outing of iPhone 4.0 or something even specialererer?

Answers in the comments box please!

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Gmail, Yahoo and AOL Email’s Have Now Been Stung

by Jay Garrett on October 7, 2009

gmail logoOk – so you don’t use Hotmail and couldn’t help but to feel a little smug when reading my piece about the phising scam yesterday.

Errrrrr………. you know, thousands of passwords to various Gmail, AOL and Yahoo accounts have now also been posted online.

As Graham Cluley, a consultant at Sophos, said yesterday: ‘The danger is that people will be using the same password on many different sites, so the criminals will go and try them on Amazon or PayPal or wherever.’

No-one is 100% sure how many accounts have been dipped into, but using the Hotmail scenario as a guide, 250,000 isn’t out of the question.

Many of the accounts are Europe-based although some US-based Comcast and Earthlink accounts are listed.

Google has already taken some ’security precautions’ but, to be honest the best security precaution is to change your password regularly and keep it something that can’t be guessed ;)

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YikeBike – The Electric Penny-Farthing of the Future Folds into a Brief Case

September 4, 2009 Click to read more →
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That futuristic, lightweight penny-farthing styled bike you see there is the YikeBike.
The groovy-looking electric bicycle slips away flat into a bag little larger than a briefcase or one of those small pop-up festival tents – handy for the commute eh?
The front wheel is driven by an electric motor giving a range of 9km and a [...]

Europe Gets 90% of Mobile Phones Produced to use Standardised Chargers

June 30, 2009 Click to read more →
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The European Commission has announced that 10 mobile phone producers, which goes to represent some 90 percent of the mobile phone market in the EU, have signed an agreement to use standardised chargers for mobile phones using a micro-USB connector. 
FTW!!!
European Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen said  that the mobile phone market in Europe alone is responsible for [...]

Palm Pre Could Be in UK / Europe By September

June 12, 2009 Click to read more →
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All you Palm Pre Euro eager-beavers will be getting your new Palm slightly earlier than expected!
The first Palm Pre’s should go onsale by the end of September.
The Palm Pre’s US launch went off without too many hitches (ignoring the firmware that needed a swift rejig via an over the air update) and it’s now on [...]

UK Mobile TV Gets European Commission Boost

April 9, 2009 Click to read more →
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Mobile TV here in the UK has just had a well needed boost.
Mobile Today states that the European Commission could release a new band of spectrum especially for satellite companies, next month.
This is up for the vote in May and if it goes through we may see mobile operators forming MVNO-style (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) [...]

Red XBox 360 Resident Evil Bundle European Release

February 24, 2009 Click to read more →

It’s true!
The news of a red Xbox 360 Elite with a 120GB hard drive, Resident Evil 5, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, and a few other bits and bobs (cables and such) has been broke all official like.
According to the German press release this limited edition bundle will hit Europe on March 13th [...]

Acer Aspire One Euro Release

July 5, 2008 Click to read more →

The noises on the grapevine (well, Fudzilla) say that Acer’s funky-small Aspire One laptop is now available in three groovy varieties:
The A110L, A150L, and A150X.
The A110L is rockin an Atom N270 CPU, Intel’s 946GSE chipset, 512MB or 1GB of RAM, 8GB of NAND flash storage, an 8.9-inch 1024 x 600 display, 802.11b/g, and three USB [...]

Cute n Cuddly – The Acer Predator Gaming PC

May 22, 2008 Click to read more →

Gaming machines aren’t reknowned for being subtley designed and this new beast is no exception.
Say hello and be nice to Acer’s Predator else it may have your arm!
It sits there watching you from behind its metallic copper chassis and if you lift up it’s mask you’ll come face-to-face with the bays for the Blu-ray and DVD rewriter [...]

DVB-H Standard is Standard

March 18, 2008 Click to read more →

As thought would happen, the European Commission has just made the EU’s DVB-H standard, well, err, standard.
This ruling is expected to accelerate the deployment of mobile television services across Europe (N96 anyone?) in the same way that the GSM standardisation in the early 90’s gave Europe a head-start on the likes North America back in the day.
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