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Talkcast Reminder: Tonight at 10pm EDT, now with added fun!

Filed under: Hardware, Retail, iPad

Yes, that’s 10pm Eastern DAYLIGHT Time; hopefully by now you’ve worked out exactly what time it is where you are so you can show up on time instead of coming in at the end. (Thanks, cell phone with automatically updated clock!) Tonight’s show will also include the debut of a TUAW challenge! What kind of challenge? Tune in to find out!

While you’re there, I’m sure we can find some other Apple news to discuss this evening. I’m sure if we look really hard there is some interesting tidbit out there for all of us to chat about…

Unlike those customer service recordings that try to convince you, your call really IS important to us. Without the audience, we are just talking to ourselves, and what fun would that be? To participate on TalkShoe, you can use the browser-only client, the embedded Facebook app, or the classic TalkShoe Pro Java client; however, for maximum fun, you should call in. For the web UI, just click the “TalkShoe Web” button on our profile page at 10 pm Sunday. To call in on regular phone or VoIP lines (take advantage of your free cellphone weekend minutes if you like): dial (724) 444-7444 and enter our talkcast ID, 45077 — during the call, you can request to talk by keying in *8. If you’ve got a headset or microphone handy on your Mac, you can connect via the free Gizmo or X-Lite SIP clients; basic instructions are here. Talk with you then!

TUAWTalkcast Reminder: Tonight at 10pm EDT, now with added fun! originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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"Apple has a two or three-year lead" in mobile internet domination

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Internet, Apple, iPhone, iPod touch

Philip Elmer-DeWitt has an excellent article over at Fortune’s Apple 2.0 blog on Morgan Stanley’s The Mobile Internet seminar. The article is full of juicy tidbits, but here is the main course:

Based on past performance, according to Morgan Stanley, Apple is in the “pole position” in the race to dominate mobile Internet computing, which is supposed to be for the 2000s what desktop Internet computing was for the 1990s, personal computing for the 1980s, mini computing for the 1970s, and mainframe computing for the 1960s.

“Apple has a two or three-year lead” according to Katy Huberty, thanks to an installed base of 57 million handsets, 100,000 apps and 200 million iTunes subscribers with credit card numbers on file.

Another interesting tidbit that DeWitt spotlights is a diagram that compares Facebook’s 350,000 apps and 137% year-over-year growth with the iPhone’s 100,000 apps and 163% growth. As DeWitt points out, “The place where Mark Zuckerberg’s 430 million users overlap with Steve Jobs’ 57 million is the sweet spot of the mobile Internet. It’s here, according to Morgan Stanley, where we find the future of computing.”

Be sure to check out DeWitt’s article, as it’s a great read, but if you want to delve deeper, you can check out the 92 slides of the Morgan Stanley presentation, the 659-slide “key themes” presentation, and the massive 424-page Mobile Internet Report, all in PDF format.

TUAW“Apple has a two or three-year lead” in mobile internet domination originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Details of 3D cable demo at Cable-Tec emerge

Our friend Mari at the official Motorola Blog just got back from checking out the 3D demo at Cable-Tec and was able to dig up a few extra details in addition to sharing her impressions. Overall she said the circular polarized and active shutter demos both “looked good” but each was driven by a different set-top-box so it was hard to do a fair a to b comparison. This also makes us continue to wonder how compatible these two 3D display technologies are — we suspect they are compatible and that this was just to prove that both IPTV and QAM worked as a delivery methods. The most interesting tidbit is the fact that thanks to new Multiview Video Encoding techniques, the 3D stream only requres about 30 percent more throughtput then the same image in 2D. This isn’t as much as Panasonic is claiming the new 3D Blu-ray spec will require, which is estimated at 50 precent. One other thing we’re left wondering is what the frame rate of the demo was, but earlier this week CableLabs did confirmed that the demo is 1080p and that the SCTE has already added 1080p at 60 fps to its encoding standards. We assume the frame rate had to be at least 30 fps per eye though, because otherwise the flicker would probably be noticably annoying.

Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment

Details of 3D cable demo at Cable-Tec emerge originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nokia N900 not coming until some time in November

We’ve just heard some pretty sour news. Peter Schneider, head of Maemo marketing, has waxed official about the N900’s release and quite casually noted that it’ll “start shipping during November 2009,” which as you very well know is a whole month later than originally expected. An interesting tidbit to his post is that he notes Nokia had lent out 300 pre-production units to the community, and he stresses the importance Nokia places on the feedback received. Connecting the dots might suggest that feedback wasn’t quite as hot as Espoo had hoped, and a few last-minute refinements are now being applied. Either way, you’re gonna have to refill your patience for potentially another month of waiting.

[Via Chronicles of N900; Thanks, Habib Q]

Filed under: Cellphones

Nokia N900 not coming until some time in November originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Advertise.com’s Projected 2009 Revenues Are $25 Million, Court Documents Reveal

An interesting tidbit has emerged from America Online’s lawsuit against Advertise.com over the latter’s alleged trademark infringement and unfair competition with regards to AOL-owned Advertising.com.  (One is Advertise.com, the other is Advertising.com.  Yeah, I was confused too).

Well, a preliminary ruling came out last week when the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granted the startup’s motion to transfer the case over to California, where Advertise.com is headquartered and where AOL boasts multiple offices.

We got our hands on the court documents (embedded below), which conveniently reveal some previously undisclosed numbers about Advertise.com’s current and projected revenues.

The transcripts of both motion hearings are interesting, because part of them reveal how much money Advertise.com – which is what ABCSearch rebranded itself to back in April 2009 – is making with its digital marketing platform / online ad network.

At one point during the first hearing on September 18, the transcript shows the court asked Advertise.com’s counsel about the size of his client’s business:

The Court: I don’t know much about your client. How big is your client?

MR. SELESNICK: Your Honor, they’re expected to — this year I think their projected revenue is about $25 million.

THE COURT: Well, compared to AOL then, I mean, it’s a little bit of a David and Goliath, although again, it’s not a mom-and-pop shop, either.

MR. SELESNICK: Correct.

During the other motion hearing on October 9, it was also revealed that Advertise.com made a grand total of $44,000 from its activities in the Commonwealth of Virginia during 19 months of operations.

This may look like a minor victory for Advertise.com from the outside, but when you consider the few resources the startup has compared to AOL, they must have been pleased not to have to litigate on the other side of the country if just for the extra travel costs and other inconveniences. The reason America Online wanted to have the lawsuit in the state of Virginia in the first place was because it’s a so-called rocket docket, a district that has an accelerated timetable and that strictly adheres to deadlines, resulting in speedier disposition of cases than most other districts.

We should note that when we contacted Advertise.com to double-check the $25 million projected revenue figure, its outside PR representative Ann Shannon of Pan Communications asserted “that figure is inaccurate,” but wouldn’t comment any further.  So either Advertise.com’s lawyer didn’t know what he was talking about and misled the court in a material fact which resulted in the lawsuit being moved to a more favorable venue, or Advertise.com’s PR person doesn’t know what she is talking about.  We’re going with the lawyer.

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2009-10-09 Transcript re Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss or Transfer Venue –

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