A well-connected source to Wired.com says rumors of an iPod Touch equipped with a camera and microphone are right on the money, and that Apple factories in China are already manufacturing it. If iPod Touches with cameras and microphones go on sale “in two to three months,” the source expects them to (and which corresponds with our expected timeframe), they will transform the entertainment-oriented iPod Touch line into a voice communications tool wherever WiFi is available. In addition to these voice-over-IP capabilities, the camera would spark a revolution in high quality mobile photos and video. Or in other words, the Flip HD camera will become obsolete. Sorry Cisco.
Here is Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, at his commencement speech for Carnegie Mellon. And to think for my graduation I had Erin Brockovich.
A few key quotes:
“We got our news from newspapers, your generation gets it from blogs and tweets, and for those of you who don’t know, that’s not what you hear in zoos.”
“We thought ‘friend’ is a noun, you think it’s a verb.”
“You cannot plan innovation. You cannot plan invention. All you can do is try very hard to be at the right place and be ready.”
“How should you behave? Well, do things in a group. Don’t do things by yourself. Groups are stronger, groups are faster. None of us is as smart as all of us.”
“You’ll find today is the best chance you have to start being unreasonable, to demand excellence, to drive change, to make everything happen.”
Video for the iPhone is just around the corner. Here is the official shot out of BGR. Check out that battery percentage up at the top right corner. Going to be useful son.
Need more another dose of Apple? Check out these posts:
In an effort to thwart off time-theft and loiterers, Apple has decided to add Facebook to the list of banned websites at retail locations nationwide. When I asked some of the genius’ today whether or not anyone noticed the change, they all said that Facebook stopped working sometime in the past week. One of the genius’ said “Apple Stores have become a regular Internet Cafe, so placing the most popular time-killer [Facebook] of them all on the banned-list will certainly help everyone get a chance to test out the computers”.
As you may have heard, MySpace was banned in May of 2007 from all Apple Stores. When asked why, Apple said “Nearly 2 million people visit Apple Stores every week. We want to provide everyone a chance to test-drive a Mac, so we are no longer offering access to MySpace in our stores.” Apple Stores, which now total 251 worldwide, see an average of 15,744 visitors weekly per store (Q4, 2008). So, currently about 16 million people per month are now denied the right to jump on for a minute (or an hour) to update their status or do their daily stalking. It will be interesting if Facebook will see a slight dip in traffic this month due to the change.
Trying to stay up on Apple? Check out these recent articles:
Meet Google Latitude, Google’s attempt at mobile social networking, giving you the ability to see where your friends are and what they are doing at any time (see Loopt). I’ve yet to adopt to location-based mobile social networking myself, as it’s time consuming and at the end of the day, I reallly don’t need to see a point on a map where my buddies are. How does everyone else feel about it?
Trying to keep up on Google? Check out these must-read Google Product Posts:
RSS
Email
Twitter
![[Post to Twitter]](http://tinycomb.com/wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/icons/tt-twitter-big4.png){kind=icon}
