From OLED to Tegra: Five Myths of the Zune HD
Just when you thought Microsoft had given up on the Zune as a product and had retreated to referring to it as a nebulous cloud of conceptual features, the company comes out with a new device supporting a mobile-optimized OLED screen, a wildly powerful yet super efficient new multi-core Tegra graphics processor and support for high definition radio. The problem is that none of those things are actually true.
Possible T-Mobile-Sprint merger could rival AT&T in subscribers
Deutsche Telekom, the owners of T-Mobile in the U.S., are reportedly looking into acquiring competitor Sprint. Together, the two companies would have a customer base that rivals AT&T.
Mac sales grow 7% as Apple projected to sell 2.8M in quarter
Based on new sales figures from NPD Market Research, Apple is expected to slightly exceed Wall Street's consensus on Mac sales for the September quarter.
New rule could boost Apple's publicly reported earnings
Apple's public accounting records could receive a significant boost, particularly in terms of iPhone profits, if a proposed rule change comes to pass.
Apple creates worldwide NAND flash shortage; China Mobile deal
Apple's iPhone and iPods use so much NAND flash memory that there is a worldwide dearth of memory chips; and negotiations with China Mobile for the iPhone are ongoing.
Apple discounts 160GB Apple TV to $229, nixes 40GB
Apple this weekend discontinued the 40GB Apple TV and discounted the higher capacity model of its living room media player to $229.
WebKit adding support for GPU-accelerated 3D via WebGL
WebKit developers are adding support for WebGL, a new API designed to deliver hardware accelerated 3D graphics within the web browser without the use of a separate plugin.
Apple's TuneKit iTunes LP format appears aimed at Apple TV
The iTunes LP album and iTunes Extras movie-enriching bonus material bundles Apple introduced as a new feature of iTunes 9 are built using a new TuneKit JavaScript framework and appear aimed to deliver new big screen content to Apple TV.
