apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com - 6/29/2009
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In a sign that should bode well for Apple’s ( AAPL ) earnings in its third fiscal quarter — which ended Saturday — the MacBook has clawed its way back to the top of Amazon’s ( AMZN ) bestseller lists.
The Mac, which once led the pack in the online retailer’s ...
newyorker.com - 6/29/2009
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newyorker.com —
At a hearing on Capitol Hill in May,
James Moroney, the publisher of the Dallas Morning News,...
told Congress about negotiations he’d just had with the online retailer Amazon. The idea was to license his newspaper’s content to the Kindle, ...
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Malcolm Gladwell: Is free the future?
radar.oreilly.com - 6/26/2009
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radar.oreilly.com —
I have written here , here and here
about Apple’s inevitable assault on the Tablet market. What...
I hadn’t factored until recently is how symbiotic such a device would be for Baby Boomers. Why Baby Boomers? Well, for the same two ...
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Apple, the Boomer Tablet and the Matrix
businessweek.com - 6/26/2009
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businessweek.com —
Amazon.com's buying and hiring signal that many more
Kindle apps may be on the way plus software...
to put Amazon books on other mobile devices By Olga Kharif Giant online retailer Amazon.com may be plotting a broader foray into software for ...
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Big Software Plans for Amazon's Kindle?
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Apple’s new 13-inch MacBook Pro tops Amazon’s list of bestselling computers
MacDailyNews —
... reports. "Result: its computers have become hot sellers on Amazon once again." "Apple’s entry-level 13-inch unibody... MacBook Pro, has been one of Amazon’s top 100 bestsellers for 20 days — basically since the moment it went on sale. As of Monday morning, it was the site’s No. 4 bestselling computer overall and No. 1 in the laptop category," Elmer-DeWitt reports. "In fact, three of the top 10 and five of the top 20 bestselling laptops on Amazon are now MacBooks." Full article here . [Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "qka" for the heads up.] ...
13-inch Macbook Pro crashes the netbook party on Amazon
CrunchGear —
... case you didn’t know, Apple refreshed its notebook lineup a few weeks back and rebadged the 13-inch unibody Macbook as a Pro model. Apparently the masses like it as that model now occupies the top spot in Amazons best selling laptop computer list and number four overall. It wasn’t that long ago that netbooks ruled that second list and the white 13-inch Macbook was the top selling Apple computer at number 14.
But as Fortune’s Apple 2.0 blog points out, netbooks are returned nearly 30% of the time and most people don’t ...
Linkpost | 6.30.2009
TechBlog —
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technologizer.com 8/26/2009 — AppleInsider is reporting that Apple is working on refreshing the $999 white MacBook that’s its cheapest portable computer –and, AppleInsider, reports, still a best-seller. Makes sense to me. I’m assuming we’ll see one with ...
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Apple SD Cards fuel (more) Mac tablet chatter —
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