Ever since Steve Jobs’ keynote at the Macworld Expo in January, we’ve known that the iPhone is being released sometime in June. But we haven’t known exactly when.
Now Cingular is confirming that the release date will be June 11. A customer service manager at Cingular (we called 800-947-5096 and were transferred to sales) gave us that date late Thursday, but, alas, said he didn’t have any additional information beyond that.
That date is no coincidence. It’s the first day of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, scheduled to be held in San Francisco from June 11 through June 15. (Incidentally, the agenda includes a focus on Leopard, the next generation of OS X that’s supposed to be released sometime in the second quarter of 2007.)
Rumors have been swirling about the iPhone release date. One blog pointed to a release date of June 15 based on alleged documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission, but those have been shown to be a hoax.
BOSTON - One of the cheapest places to buy software is on eBay, where merchants sell programs that come directly from manufacturers, saving them from paying a mark-up to distributors.
But it may also be a risky place to shop, as it can be tough to discern good values from scams.
Consumers Union — which tracks Web retailers and advises consumers on Internet shopping through its ConsumerWebWatch.org service — urges buyers to use common sense. (more…)
Today, IBM announced a new and emerging technology that can help the blind and visually impaired people “see” Internet multimedia. This new technology that enables blind people to experience streaming video and animation on the Internet has been designed at IBM’s Tokyo Research Laboratory.
This new multimedia browsing accessibility tool developed by IBM has the potential to open a world of rich content to visually impaired people all over the globe.
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With a family of four, I’ve lately been trying to figure out how to wedge my crew into a single car. Sounds easy, but have you seen how big car seats are now? The one for our toddler consumes so much space that the front passenger seat in my Subaru Forrester is pushed all the way forward and can’t be moved back. My four-year-old daughter, who sits behind me on the driver’s side, is wedged in to the point where here feet are constantly in my back. Isn’t the point of an SUV (even a small one like the Forrester) to avoid such cramped spaces?
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