Here are the details of Apple’s first set-top-box. It was only a prototype, anyhow the market was not ready in 1994.

read it here wikipedia

Financial services firm Needham and Company has said in a report that they expect the upcoming Apple iPhone to get cheaper annually by around 20% annually over the next 10 years.

read it here techwhack

Just for you who did not find out yet. We have just added a software section on the left side where we try to organize all the new software that is coming out. Also we keep providing you, all the special OSX Tiger and Leopard features, that ties this new phone in the Big Brother OSX of your (laptop/desktop).

For the Apple TV we are also going to do the same of course!

Very good news for the Apple TV buyers in Europe!

LUXEMBOURG: US computer giant Apple, which launched its online video service in the United States 15 months ago, is about to take its first step into conquering the European market, Luxembourg’s economy minister said on Tuesday.

read more here dnaindia

Why is Apple Inc. ™ so silent about gaming?

They have a complete ecosystem running wireless on Intel ™ these days. How can this be used for gaming?

The iPhone has already running a full Operating System with nice graphics of course. It has three sensors; The accelerometer can be used like the Wii controller for instance.
The games could be wirelessly synced, from your desktop to the Apple TV via the new ultra-fast 802.11n protocol. When OSX Leopard arrives in the stores soon, maybe the games can be streamed from disk or Internet directly to your big plasma screen.

To take it one step further, you could train your own game character while you are in the subway, on your iPhone. It would be great if you could upload your character to any Apple TV and continue there with your friends enjoying your new built skills. You can swing the sword, the iPhone and a special Apple iCord connected to your wrist of course, around the room like sir Lancelot.

You can buy items in the game by simply confirming the 4 digit buying code by tapping it with your fingers on the display. When you meet friends in the bar downtown you can sell and buy items, property, services or whatever. The Blue Tooth, “just works” integration, makes it easy to connect to other people and share things with them. The phone seamlessly switches between Telco networks to Wifi to Blue Tooth.

Feel free to comment, R.

A chinese company has apparently announced a new cellular phone that looks remarkably similar to Apple’s iPhone, according to one report.

read it here ipodnn

Days after Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the iPhone in early January, chatter through the grapevine suggested the iPhone may be ready to ship earlier than the June timetable Apple put forward.

read it here thinksecret

One gripe about the iPhone is that it will cost $499 for the 4GB version and $599 for the 8GB version. Those are high prices for a cell phone. But the iPhone is a little more than a phone. It’s a video-ready iPod. How much do you pay for an 8GB iPod nano now? The answer: $249. Add that, plus the cost of a gorgeous, wide video screen to the price of, say, a Palm Treo 750, which is listed for $399, and you’re at a price that’s well north of $600.

read it here mobile-tech-today

Charles Dunstone, CEO of Carphone Warehouse, Europe’s largest retailer of mobile phones with 2,070 stores, wants an iPhone - lots of them - under his Christmas tree, and his alone, this year.
While giving the company’s quarterly results, Dunstone said he’s after an exclusive deal with Apple to sell iPhones in the UK. On the company’s website there is already a pre-order form to get your new iPhone.

read it here theregister

Earlier today brought reports that Rogers would be providing the iPhone to Canadian customers. This confirms a word-of-mouth forum post made last week. Of interest, the post provided a little more information about the market dynamics between Apple and Rogers.

macrumors