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Macworld 1997 - Macworld 2007

Before we get into all the Macworld 2008 Buzz, lets just take a look at the Macworld 1997 and Macworld 2007 presentations of Steve Jobs.  The long and stony path this company has taken is simply incredible.

Macworld 1997 Keynote 

 Macworld 2007 Keynote (Part 1)

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Barack Obama @ Google

Allthough, the videos are a couple of months old, I thought it would still be a good thing to post them.  Barack Obama visits the google HQ in Mountain View.

“From 10 Hours a Week, $10 Million a Year”

Yesterday I stumbled upon a post at the nytimes.com, which has received some major buzz.  Its title :From 10 Hours a week, $ 10 Million A Year.  The founder Markus Frind, started the dating site Plenty of Fish as a learning project.  Now it throws of $ 10 million a year.  Simply read for yourself (here)

Did You Know 2.0

 Great Video, illustrating the change taking place around the globe.

Most Anticipated Movies 2008

Most anticipated movies coming in 2008. (My personal list)

The Kite Runner

Drillbit Taylor

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Snow Angels

Step up 2 the Streets

Consumer Electronics Show 2008

"David Pogue and CNBC's Bill Griffeth highlight the best of C.E.S."

for the awesome video click here (redirects to nytimes.com)

“There’s something in the air” -Apple turns on the heat

The first pictures of the soon to be Macworld 2008 location, the Moscone Center, are leaking and turn on the buzz. (found via Valleywag)

the untold story of the iphone

 

-The following passage of text, was originally found at Valleywag,based on a article from Wired."

• In the fall of 2006, in Apple's boardroom, the prototype flat-out didn't work. The phone dropped calls constantly. Jobs fixed the dozen or so people in the room with a level stare and said, "We don't have a product yet." The effect was even more terrifying than one of Jobs' trademark tantrums.
• For those working on the iPhone, the next three months would be the most stressful of their careers. A product manager slammed the door to her office so hard that the handle bent and locked her in; it took colleagues more than an hour and some well-placed whacks with an aluminum bat to free her.
• Just weeks before Macworld, Jobs had a prototype to show wireless boss Stan Sigman. Sigman, uncharacteristically effusive, called the iPhone "the best device I have ever seen."
• About 40 percent of iPhone buyers are new to AT&T's rolls, and the iPhone has tripled the carrier's volume of data traffic in cities like New York and San Francisco.
• In February 2005, in a midtown Manhattan hotel, Jobs laid out his plans before a handful of Cingular senior execs, including Sigman. Apple was prepared to consider an exclusive arrangement to get that deal done. But Apple was also prepared to buy wireless minutes wholesale and become a de facto carrier itself.
• At one point, Jobs met with some executives from Verizon, who promptly turned him down.
• Around Thanksgiving of 2005, eight months before a final agreement was signed, he instructed his engineers to work full-speed on the project. One insider estimates that Apple spent roughly $150 million building the iPhone.
• Internally, the project was known as P2, short for Purple 2.
• Whenever Apple executives traveled to Cingular, they registered as employees of Infineon, the company Apple was using to make the phone's transmitter.
• Even the iPhone's hardware and software teams were kept apart: Hardware engineers worked on circuitry that was loaded with fake software, while software engineers worked off circuit boards sitting in wooden boxes.
• By January 2007, when Jobs announced the iPhone at Macworld, only 30 or so of the most senior people on the project had seen it." Found at Valleywag, one of our favourite blogs ;) (Originally published on Wired)

 

Beyonce & Jay-Z use Mac

( via Valleywag )

20 Petabyte A Day. Google In Action.

A so called white paper, was published by some engineers at Google giving some stunning insights into the computing power of Google. The blog that covered it first.  (here).Techcrunch has covered it (here).