First things first: Apple refreshed their Mac Mini computer. Nice upgrade I have to admit. But there is also a downside. And as so often it lies in the price… Update: as journalist and Apple user Thomas Benkö just noted, are the new prices CHF 300.- higher than for the old system. Country US-Dollar ($) […]
Continue ReadingApple and iOS #fail
Steve Jobs is currently speaking at the WWDC in San Francisco. And he just announced renaming of iPhone OS to iOS. Makes sense. The mobile operating system runs on iPhone, iPad, iPod. But there is one problem. iOS, or better IOS is an operating system owned and used by Cisco. True, go check out the […]
Continue ReadingApple Announces iPad Prices for Switzerland
Fresh of the ticker, these are the prices for the iPad in Switzerland. Pre-order starts on May 10th, delivering by end of May 2010. iPad with Wifi iPad with 3G 16 GB 649.- 799.- 32 GB 779.- 929.- 64 GB 899.- 1049.- (Table 1: iPad prices in Switzerland, in Swiss Francs) Prices are roughly 30% […]
Continue ReadingApple iPad on 24?
+ When the iPad was publicly announced in January 2010, a producer of Fox’ tv action series “24” reported on Twitter that they are working hard to get the iPad on the show. And now that the US launch of the iPad is less then a week away, I start to wonder, I we will […]
Continue ReadingBrowser Visualization Video
Google Analytics has a nice little visualization tool. With this, you can create good looking graphs and animations for various kinds of data. I have created a small sequence to show you the change of browser types that visitors of my blog have. The data is from 2009 (January through December) and shows that my […]
Continue ReadingiPhone not a Trademark in Switzerland
That was surprising. According to an article in a newspaper here in Switzerland (available online in German), the iPhone, or its name, can not be registered as a trademark in Switzerland. The Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property has ruled, that the word “phone” is used in the English and French languages as a word […]
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