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Is Apple Secretly Working With Axiotron?

by Jason Wilk on February 3, 2009

  • Above is an image of what the Apple tablet is going to look like. It has been widely rumored that Apple would move to an entirely touch screen notebook experience, and the confirmation of their patent today confirms those claims. What’s even more interesting is that in the last few months, Steve Wozniak, Apple’s co-founder, decided to join the board of a company called Axiotron that makes the award-winning ModBook. You guessed it, the ModBook is a custom MacBook that has been entirely repurposed to become a touch screen tablet. Currently they run at an extremelly high rate of $4,998. Funny enough, the latest edition (and best yet) will be availabe in May/June, right around the same time as the next Mac keynote. Coincidence or is the next Axiotron ModBook going to be coming out of Cupertino? Many think Wozniak joined their board to oversee the operation and technology behind creating a seamless tablet computer. I’d sday it’s more than coincidence and the next keynote will be seeing the debut of the next generation of mobile computing. Here is a clip from the patent claim by Gizmodo.


[0015]As a housing for a computer device, one embodiment of the invention includes: a front shell; a back shell coupled to said front shell to produce said housing, electrical components for the computer device being internal to said housing; and a foam stiffener provided internal to said housing to substantially fill unused space internal to said housing, thereby providing stiffness to said housing.

See other TinyComb Mac Rumors:

Video Conferencing Plans For The iPhone

Flash Coming To The iPhone: Says Adobe

iPhone 2 Rumors Get Some Hard Evidence

My Top 15 iPhone Apps Of 2008

iPhone Pro Photos

Say It Ain’t So. iPhone Nano Rumors Coming True

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iPhone 2 Rumors Get Some Hard Evidence

by Jason Wilk on January 29, 2009

  • Rumors of a new iPhone are getting a little warmer today as there looks to be two iPhone 2’s out in the wild. Notice the product key discovered in the new iPhone update denotes 2,1 model. According to MacRumors, “Apple uses these models numbers to distinguish between different hardware models. The original iPhone carries the model number of “iPhone 1,1″ while the 3G iPhone is labeled “iPhone 1,2″. These numbers do not change for simple storage increases and instead represent functionally different devices. Similarly, the iPod Touch was originally introduced as the “iPod 1,1″ and the most recent hardware revision was labeled “iPod2,1″. The 2,1 iPod Touch added a speaker, volume controls, microphone support and a much faster processor than the 1st generation model. This new model number can be found in the USBDeviceConfiguration.plist in an unencrypted firmware”.
  • The graph below the code represents an ad aserving graph from mobile advertising company PinchMedia. They wouldn’t show anyone the rest of their stats, but they were kind enough to show that they have served ads to 2 unique iPhones running “iPhone2,1″. Is this the nano or is this the next generation of the iPhone set to release @ the next keynote?

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Join TinyComb @ Startonomics

by Jason Wilk on January 26, 2009

  • What’s Startonomics? It’s a one-day workshop designed by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs on how to create simple, actionable metrics; and how to use them to make better product and marketing decisions for long-term growth and startup success. You cannot miss the all-star lineup at the event set to begin February 6th @ 9am. I will be there covering the event all day, be sure to come and say hello if you are attending. Grab the last few tickets available here. Here is a taste of who is set to come:

Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media

Richard Rosenblatt

A serial entrepreneur and Internet visionary, Richard co-founded Demand
Media in May 2006 to become the leading distributed social media company.
Richard built, operated and sold numerous Internet media companies with a
combined value of over $1.3 billion. He served as CEO of Intermix Media,
Inc., and Chairman of Myspace.com, during which time the public market
capitalization grew from $70 million to over $650 million, until acquired by
News Corporation. Richard previously founded then sold iMALL, one of the
first Internet companies to recognize the power of user-generated content,
to Excite@Home for $565 million. Richard is a Southern California native,
with a BA from UCLA and JD from USC Law School.

  • 1:30 – 2:00 - Afternoon Keynote Address (Keynote)

David O. Sacks – Yammer

David O. Sacks

David O. Sacks is the Founder and CEO of Yammer, Inc., a communications tool
for enterprises. Yammer.com launched at the TechCrunch 50 conference in
September 2008 and won Best In Show. Yammer was originally developed at
Geni, Inc., a startup founded by David in June 2006. Geni.com is creating a
family tree of the whole world, enabling millions of family members to
connect, share, and preserve their lives. Previously, David was the COO of
PayPal, helping to lead the company to a successful IPO and $1.5 billion
sale to eBay. He also produced the movie “Thank You For Smoking” for which
he was nominated for a Golden Globe.

  • 9:00 – 9:30 - Morning Keynote Address (Keynote)

Peter Pham – BillShrink

Peter Pham

Peter is CEO of BillShrink. He was previously VP Business Development & employee #5 at Photobucket.com, and was responsible for customer acquisition, strategic partnerships, and corporate development. Photobucket was acquired in 2007 by Fox Interactive Media, a division of News Corporation. When Peter left in 2008, Photobucket had grown to over 61M users making it the #1 photo sharing site and the 38th most visited site in the US. Prior to Photobucket, he was involved in multiple enterprise startups in areas such as mid-range server computing, software as a service, solid state storage, and mobilization of enterprise software. Peter has held multiple roles including sales, marketing, reseller channel development, product, and strategy. He holds a BS in Biological Sciences with a minor in Business Management from UC Irvine.

  • 3:30 – 4:00 - Pitching & Packaging for Partnerships: How to Land Amazing Deals & Tell If They’re Working (Speaker)

Frank Addante – Rubicon Project

Frank Addante

Frank Addante, a serial entrepreneur, has a successful entrepreneurial track record. The Rubicon Project is Frank’s 6th company. Before the age of 30, Frank started 5 companies, resulting in 1 IPO, 2 acquisitions, 1 failure (we call that one “a learning experience”) and his last venture, StrongMail Systems. Addante lead StrongMail from inception, to an initial cash-flow positive business, to becoming the market leader in less than 4 years, raising over $30 million in venture capital.

  • 4:30 – 5:00 - The A-Team: The Dynamics of Olympic Startups (Speaker)

Neil Patel – ACS

Neil Patel

Neil Patel is the co-founder of 3 Internet companies: ACS, Crazy Egg, and KISSmetrics. Through these 3 companies he has helped large corporations such as AOL, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard and Viacom make more money from the web. By the age of 21 not only was Neil named a top 100 blogger by Technorati, but he was also one of the top influencers on the web according to the Wall Street Journal.

  • 12:00 – 12:30 - Finding Users: The Metrics of SEO for Customer Acquisition (Speaker)

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The Death Of Apple @ MacWorld Doesn’t Mean The End Of Keynotes

by Jason Wilk on January 9, 2009

  • There is no need to get sad about Apple not returning to the MacWorld expo next year.The famed keynote will still live on, as Apple is too accustomed to the now ceremonial bi-yearly recap/product launch that gets the whole world buzzing. Although Steve will most likely not be the one giving future keynotes, there are some very important elements of the presentation that are important signatures with or without him. Such phrases like “One more thing” have been home to so many secret products and is expected to be heard every time. Huge white letters on a black background presenting sales figures for Apple products, and a recap of products released in the past few months including phrases “Wow” or “Bam” speak Mac. Apple without a Keynote, is like Vista without an error. Look at the products that have been launched since 1998 at Keynotes:
  • Here are the products that launched at the end of the Keynote with the phrase “One more thing…”
    • The AirPort base station and Airport card after the iBook was introduced in Macworld Expo 1999.
    • The PowerBook G4.
    • The PowerMac G5
    • The fifth generation iPod with video, announced at a press conference self-referentially titled “One more thing…”.
    • The MacBook Pro
    • A 2006 keynote saw three, “One more things…” The introduction of selling movies on the iTunes Store in September 2006, followed by Apple TV, followed by a John Mayer peformance.
    • Introduction of Safari for Windows Beta.
    • The iPod touch
    • The wireless version of the iTunes Store on the iPod touch and iPhone.
    • The Safari 3 Browser was shown running on Windows XP.
    • The new Macbook was introduced in October 2008 after the new Macbook Pro was introduced.

    Some are already saying Apple is planning their next Keynote and that it’s going to be at CES.


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Microsoft 7 Beta Goes Live At CES, Full Screenshots

by Jason Wilk on January 7, 2009

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  • Steve Ballmer just wrapped up his Keynote in Las Vegas at the annual Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas. Big news out, Windows 7 Beta is now out and available for public upgrade. Steve seemed excited about the possibilities including revamped applications like Photos, social integration with Windows Live/Facebook, clean UI and home media integration. WinMo was discussed briefly, mentioning 20 million phones over the last 12 months have been sold by partners using the Microsoft OS. Here are screenshots of hopefully everything you’d want to see from the new Windows 7 thanks to Windows7News. You can download it here, but Microsoft is only allowing the first 2.5 million downloaders to try it out. Don’t forget to read that it expires in August. 

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  • Home screen. Nothing spectacular, looks similar to Vista with the living applications on the desktop and analog clock. Notice the cleaned up, translucent navigation bar. 

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  • Revamped MyComputer center with Frequent and Recent documents. 

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  • Windows will finally make home networking much easier from the computer.  

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  • Windows startup menu. Nothing really new here, just looks nicer. I love how Paint is still an integral part. 

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  • This will be the go to destination from now on in Windows to view recent documents, songs, searches, etc. Nice to finally see we’re moving in the right direction to consider the end user experience. 

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