Jun

9


No flash. No tablet. No multiple carrier options. Just a new faster and cheaper iPhone coming July 11.

The new iPhone is based on 3G technology and reportedly 36% faster than its top rival, the Nokia N95 Smartphone.

The new 8-gigabyte iPhone will cost $199 and a 16-gigabyte version, $299. Steve Jobs says the new iPhone will be available worldwide July 11. It will allow up to five hours of talk time and six hours of web browsing. 

Funny enough, Apple stock fell 4% after the announcement at the WWDC in San Francisco. The stock had been soaring 55% higher in the past quarter, mainly due to heightened expectations for a radically improved iPhone and the possibility of other product launches (i.e. the Apple Tablet). Apple still comes out the winner. The other winner, consumers. Well, if you can consider spending $300 for any mobile phone with 16GB of content a real win.

The loser, AT&T, whose exclusive deal with Apple calls for the company to share as much as 24% of its monthly iPhone service revenue with Apple. They say they will feel the pinch of Apple’s price cut, as it will have to lay out a subsidy for the new phone. On Monday, they said that iPhone costs will cut adjusted earnings by about 11 cents this year and next. Expect a bear. 

Speaking of carnivorous animals, Jobs also announced that the new version of the Mac OS X is called “Snow Leopard”. Jobs previously announced the creation of the iPhone SDK, and deployment of the Apple “Applications Store”, which should be shipping with new iPhone 2.0. Other announcements are listed below:

-New iPhone applications include service from MLB.com that provides a live scoreboard, and Cow Terry, an app for making songs on the iPhone. 

-Apple will charge $99/year (also for exisiting .mac users) for its new service MobileMe. MobileMe will push e-mail, contact, and calendar updates to all of a user’s devices.

-The company has a goal of selling 10 million iPhones this year (up from 6 million one year ago). 

-In an attempt to compete with RIMM, which dominates the market for devices for business users, the new iPhone now works with Microsoft Exchange office server systems, so that business users can push e-mail, contacts, and calendar information from the Microsoft Exchange Server directly to their iPhone, complete with remote wiping of the iPhone. Jobs also announced that 35% of the Fortune 500 has participated in beta program testing of business applications for the iPhone. 

Jun

4


Vern over at Ain’t It Cool News wrote a book called Seagalogy: A Study of the Ass-Kicking Films of Steven Seagal. His publisher started a video contest on YouTube. Here is the front-runner for a shiny new PlayStation 3.

From TastesLikeTV.com

Jun

2

Kimbo Ripped That Guy’s Ear Off!

June 2, 2008 – 7:19 am | in Sports | 1 Comment

I was in a dive bar watching the fight on Saturday, and I almost barfed up beer nuts when Kimbo ripped that guy’s ear off. As if cauliflower ears aren’t enough to make you sick to your stomach, James Thompson’s ear flapping off his head was pretty much all I needed to see. The ref ended the fight. Kimbo’s 3-0.

He should fight Tyson next.

Jun

2

Universal Studios on Fire!

June 2, 2008 – 6:12 am | in Entertainment | Leave a Comment

Just a link today. Nikki Finke reports on the Universal blaze that happened on Sunday, that ruined the King Kong exhibit and backlot courtyard set from Back to the Future. 

May

31

Obama’s reaction to a question that seeks his reaction to the reports that both he and his wife are members of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and that there have been discussions about a North American Union, and the implementation of the AMERO, as a new currency for all of (a borderless) North America.

Yesterday’s post Amero Watch - Enter the Council on Foreign Relations, gave a brief background on the CFR. For more of a background on the CFR, here’s another short video you should see:

 

In the first video, Senator Obama states, “I don’t know if I’m an official member. I’ve spoken there before. It’s basically just a forum where a bunch of people [waves his hand] talk about foreign policy.” For a candidate so committed in an election so heavily dependent on views on foreign relations and diplomacy, I’m surprised he waves off the mention of “a bunch of people talking foreign policy.” Aren’t you?

There are members of the CFR, senator. You should know, because your wife, Michelle Obama, is on the board of directors of the Chicago committee for the CFR. (Do a page search for: Michelle Obama): http://www.ccfr.org/chicago_council_board_directors.php).
He doesn’t address this part of the question at all.

He stumbles over the “North American Uuuuunion” and follows by stating, “I see no evidence of this taking place.” In my first Amero Watch post, Lou Dobbs outlines George W. Bush’s policies that have been put into action by the signing of a formal agreeement. Do you not know about this, Senator Obama? And no, this wasn’t reported on Fox News. As reported, Bush signed the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America without the approval of Congress or the American people. Shouldn’t this be something you’re on top of, Senator? Something that critics have called, NAFTA on Steroids. ?

Still not convinced that something is going on behind closed doors?

Get a load of this:

According to the wikipedia entry for North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), signed into action by Bill Clinton on January 1, 1994:

“While different groups advocate for a further integration into a North American Community, sensitive issues have hindered that process. The three countries have pursued different trade policies with non-members (for example, Mexico has signed FTAs with more than 40 countries in 12 agreements), making the possibility of creating a customs union difficult to accomplish. Former President Vicente Fox of Mexico had promoted the idea of enhancing NAFTA (into what he labeled “NAFTA-Plus”, or possibly a North American Community), but after the September 11, 2001 attacks, priorities in the United States changed. The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America was signed, instead, as a separate and unrelated agreement.

Furthermore:

“In an interview with Larry King on October 8, 2007, Vicente Fox described any plans for a North American single currency as a “Long term, very long term” proposal. He also spoke of his and U.S. President George W. Bush’s support for the Free Trade Area of the Americas as a “first step” toward “a new vision” for the Americas, like we are trying to do with NAFTA,” but then said that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez had decided to ‘destroy the idea’.”

Now take a look at this from BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4359386.stm

Venezuela’s President, Hugo Chavez, says he is in possession of intelligence showing that the United States plans to invade his country.

Chavez says, “A coup happened in Venezuela that was prepared by the US. What do they want? Our oil, as they did in Iraq?” Well, maybe they want something more… Maybe Chavez just another obstacle to this new vision of the America’s, and eventually the world.

Obama states “I was opposed to NAFTA.” According to columnist James Travers, “Multiple sources say the Canadian note questioning the Democrat front-runner’s public promise to reopen NAFTA was leaked from the Prime Minister’s Office to a Republican contact before it made American headline news.”

Indeed it did, as CNN reports, “The AP obtained a memo from a Canadian diplomat saying an Obama adviser had told Canada’s government the candidate’s criticism of NAFTA was “more about political positioning than a clear articulation of policy plans.”

Take a look at a statement published on the CFR website by Richard N. Haass: (http://www.cfr.org/publication/9903/sovereignty_and_globalisation.html)

“Globalisation thus implies that sovereignty is not only becoming weaker in reality, but that it needs to become weaker. States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves, because they cannot insulate themselves from what goes on elsewhere. Sovereignty is no longer a sanctuary.”
-Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations, Feb 17, 2006

At that town hall meeting, no one even uttered the word “conspiracy”, Senator Obama. It came from your mouth, not that crazy theorist in the audience.

Note to the general public: I will never take my own life - so don’t let them tell you I did.

 

I jest. But it’s a good story, no?


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