Saturday, March 10, 2007

Apple may have trouble selling 10 million Phones in 2008

Apple may have trouble selling 10 million Phones in 2008
According to Forbes, it may not be as easy to sell ten million iPhones in 2008 as Apple hopes, both because of Apple's strategy and because the market it has to compete in isn't as large as Steve Jobs alluded to in his January keynote.

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Free UC Berkeley Courses via Video and Podcast (Essential Classes)

Free UC Berkeley Courses via Video and Podcast (Essential Classes)
UC Berkeley has made available great courses (some by streamed video, others by podcast) that you can access for free. You'll find here many essential/core courses: Physics for Future Presidents, US History, General Psychology, Intro to Computers, General Biology, Intro to Statistics, European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present, etc

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Where OS X 'Big Cat' code names REALLY come from

Where OS X 'Big Cat' code names REALLY come from
OK, so imagine this: You're Apple Computer, Inc. and it's December 1997. You've just blocked British Mac-clone maker Shaye from licensing Mac OS 8, thereby putting it pretty much out of luck for new products. Still, there's something kind of catchy about Shaye's branding... something vaguely feline: Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard...

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Harvard Professor: "Apple Generated $400 Million of Free iPhone Publicity"

Harvard Professor: "Apple Generated $400 Million of Free iPhone Publicity"
"No other company has ever received that kind of attention for a product launch," Yoffie says. "It's unprecedented."...The company's masterful buzz machine has helped generate record profits (thanks to the worldwide digital music cultural icon, the iPod)

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