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Apple COO Tim Cook Speaks at Goldman Sachs Conference

8ify.com - Tech Rumors — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:06:05 +0000

Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook today participated in a Q&A session at the Goldman Sachs Technology & Internet Conference, and while he did not offer any major revelations, some of his comments off...

Apple Confirms: iPad Uses PowerVR SGX Graphics Hardware

8ify.com - Tech Rumors — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:49:44 +0000

While this shouldn't be much of a surprise to most, Apple has confirmed that the iPad uses the same family of graphics chip as the iPhone and iPod Touch. According to reports, Apple's latest iPad SDK Beta 3 documentation...

AT&T Tops 3G Wireless Performance Study

8ify.com - Tech Rumors — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:40:53 +0000

PCWorld reports on the results of its recent 13-city performance tests of wireless carriers in the United States, and Apple's iPhone partner AT&T came out well ahead of the pack in both upload and download speeds while also fairing well in reliabilit...

Gartner: iPhone Sales Double in 2009 as Apple Claims Third Place in Smartphone Sales

8ify.com - Tech Rumors — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:59:13 +0000

Earlier this month, research firm IDC released sales figures for 2009 showing Apple holding 14.4% of the smartphone market for the year on nearly 82% sales growth over 2008, with the company grabbing third place among smartphone vendors behind Nokia ...

‘MacBook Pro 2010′ RAM Modules Spotted?

8ify.com - Tech Rumors — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:08:38 +0000

ThesMac.gr (translation) claims that they have spotted evidence of new memory modules marketed for the upcoming "MacBook Pro 2010".

The site doesn't list the source for the image, though a quick search shows a site called Ad...

Phil Schiller Acknowledges New App Store Sexual Content Ban and Exceptions

8ify.com - Tech Rumors — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:08:38 +0000

The NY Times reports on Apple's new policy blocking overtly sexual apps. Apple's head of worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller explained the reasoning behind the decision, citing an increasing number of apps with objectionable content:<p

Which New York Times Writers Are Crazy Enough to Join the AOL News Borg?

8ify.com - Tech Rumors — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:24:53 +0000

The chief of AOL's Seed is trying to get his former New York Times colleagues to join his computer-statistics-driven freelancer army. In the email below, Timesmen are urged to defect and "reinvent the field" of journalism, since "jobs are scarce."

he latter quote is, at least, a frank explanation of why someone would leave the prestigious but layoff-prone, scarily indebted Times to help AOL assign news stories based on search engine trends. All you need, writes Times reporter-turned-Seed programming director Saul Hansell, is "high editorial standards" that don't preclude assigning stories based on the searches of some of the stupidest users on the internet. Hey, even dumb numbers can lead to poetry. Literally. Email:

(Top pic: by Will Perkins)

The ‘Gym Grifter’ Is Wisely Mooching Her Way Toward a Book Deal

8ify.com - Tech Rumors — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:22:14 +0000

Columbia Law student Julia Neyman is at the center of a building media frenzy over her blog stunt, to work out on free gym passes for a full year. Cue the requisite book deal in three... two...

Buns of Steal (geddit??) has been profiled in the New York Daily News and is slated to be on CBS 6 tonight. Miami native Neyman has already been dissed by the gays at David Barton Gym (they wouldn't extend the 24-year-old's free pass, despite her flirting) and 86ed from Equinox (whose staff dubbed her a "gym grifter" in the News). If she doesn't sell the next Pets Who Want to Kill Themselves or Stuff White People Like — a smart career move, given the job market for lawyers — there's always the very good chance a savvy fitness franchise will comp her for a year, contingent on her continued blogging.

(Neyman pic via Facebook)

Apple Job Posting Suggests Future iPhone OS Devices

8ify.com - Tech Rumors — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:43:05 +0000

Computerworld points to an Apple job listing posted last week which suggests that Apple is looking to expand the iPhone OS beyond the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad to additional platforms. The position, entitled "Engineering Manager (Platform...

Apple’s iPad Chip Development Cost Estimated in $1 Billion Range

8ify.com - Tech Rumors — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:07:35 +0000

In an article from The New York Times, the cost for a company like Apple to develop an ARM-based mobile chip such as the A4 used in its forthcoming iPad tablet is estimated at approximately $1 billion, even without the need to invest in manuf...