Apple today, along with announcing new iPods, end-of-life’d the 4GB iPhone and dropped the 8GB iPhone price by $200 to $399. While Apple maintains a 14 day price match guarantee, and is honoring it for iPhones purchased during the previous 14 days, there doesn’t appear to be much in the way of a financial refund […]
Questions on Domaining
From my inbox, Jason asks: Do you mind if I ask what some of your favorite domain tools are? I always struggle to find a decent domain for my side projects. Here are a few that I use: http://www.bustaname.com/ http://pickydomains.com/ http://instantdomainsearch.com/ Appreciate any tips you care to share. I mainly focus on expiring domains these […]
My Fix for iPhone Battery Woes
My iPhone started draining the battery fairly quickly by most accounts of battery life, including going from a 100% full charge to the Red Battery Warning in 7 hours with absolutely no physical usage (during the overnight hours). I tried two things (during the same time) so I’m not sure which was the actual fix […]
I gots me one of them there iPhone thingies.
Beautiful device (the 8GB version). Met and exceeded most of my expectations. -Activation. For me, painless, less than 5 minutes. Too bad there are some fairly widespread issues out there, but with an estimated 500,000 units sold since 6pm ET, that equates to roughly one activation every 3 seconds. I’m really surprised there weren’t more […]
Google Buys DoubleClick
Whoa. $3.1 Billion? This ought to give them a nice catch-up on Yahoo from the ad display perspective, but also an advanced ad management platform that could be rolled out to independent publishers. Let’s not forget Performics, which is one of the fastest growing affiliate networks right now. Plus, they blocked Microsoft.
100 Million iPods – Fun With Math
Apple sold the first iPod 5 and a half years ago. Today they sold the 100 millionth unit. A little fun with math. In those 5.5 years, Apple has sold: 18,181,818 per year 1,515,152 per month 49,801 per day 2,044 per hour 35 per minute or in a nutshell, one iPod has been sold every […]