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Business
Apple Hires Back Old Newton Tablet Developer
9:02AM Jason Chen | Apple just hired Michael Tchao back from a 15 year stint out of Cupertino as VP of Product Marketing, reporting directly to Phil Schiller, SVP of Product Marketing. More »
Peripherals
MoGo Talk Bluetooth Headset For BlackBerry Comes With Its Very Own Baby Carrier
5:40AM John Herrman | Bored with just selling their microthing Bluetooth headsets, MoGo has started screwing them to things. For example: BlackBerrys! Now you can buy a headset with an adorable baby carrier for your Curve and Javelin, and soon, Bold and Tour. More »
Software
Desktop-Collapsing Mac ‘Virus’ Now Available for Download
7:24PM John Herrman | One year ago, the Newton “Virus” for OS X dismantled Mac users’ desktops on video, subjecting icons and menu bars alike to the merciless force of gravity. Now, finally, you can download your own copy of this erstwhile art project. More »
Software
Apple Kinda Had iPhone Copy/Paste Figured Out with Newton 15 Years Ago (But Not Really)
5:30AM Jack Loftus | There’s a lot of hypothesising and App Store creating going on today because the supposedly simple act of cutting and pasting is absent from the iPhone. What’s strange about all this is that Apple sorta had it figured out 15 years ago with the Newton. As the video shows, cutting and pasting with a touch screen or stylus on a Mac product, circa 1993, couldn’t have been easier. Of course, back then it was with a stylus (not a finger); and then there’s the fact that touching and dragging on an iPhone is reserved for the magnifier function… wait, maybe this isn’t as easy as it appears. Back to the drawing board. [Boing Boing] More »
Games
US$200 Xbox 360 Getting Motion Control for Christmas?
5:45AM Mark Wilson | It’s a rumour, but it sure is a juicy one. According to an Xbox360Fanboy source close to Microsoft PR, the US$200 Xbox 360 Arcade (the SKU with no hard drive) will be sold in a bundle with a motion controller and a few motiony games during the coming holiday season. The possibility is certainly not all that crazy, as we’ve seen plenty of evidence supporting the Xbox 360 “Newton” motion controller, and everyone wants a piece of the Wii’s big, hungry fanbase. Our guess is that if this rumour pans out we’ll hear more around the Tokyo Game Show in October. [Xbox360Fanboy] More »
Computers
Intel Germany CEO Spills on Atom-Based Mini-Tablet iPhone
8:49AM Matt Buchanan | Through the fabulously true-to-life magic of machine translation comes word from ZDNet.de that Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer has confirmed an upcoming, larger (more tablet-y?) “version of the iPhone” based on Intel’s Atom platform. Supposedly, the beefier unit size isn’t due to the Atom chipset, but to the previously rumoured bigger 720×480 display. More »
Games
Xbox 360 Spring Update Bringing 80 New Functions?
11:03PM Mark Wilson | Our ground PONG-snorting buddies over at Kotaku have gotten their hands on a potentially legitimate list of new functions coming with the annual Xbox 360 Spring Update. In the list we see more confirmation of the Newton motion controller, as well as hints at a news/weather service, more hard drive game data caching and four-person video conferencing. Microsoft has denied the list by saying, “We don’t comment on rumours or speculation, but what we can tell you is we’ve never seen this list before.” Honest denial or tricky wordplay? You can decide for yourself with the list after the jump. More »
Games
More Xbox 360 Wiimote Details: Code Name ‘Newton’
3:50AM Jason Chen | After MTV News broke the news on Microsoft designing a Nintendo Wii-like Wiimote for the Xbox 360, 8bitjoystick felt it was time to give up their secrets as well. Not only do they confirm that the project exists, but they can give up the codename for it: Newton. Jesus was kind enough to mock up a version of the controller based on MTV’s sketch. More »
Software
Plug-’n'-Play USB Virus Makes MacBooks Fall to Pieces
1:23AM Addy Dugdale | Behold, a video of the Newton Virus. Back in 2005, Troika, the British-based art collective that was behind the Heathrow Terminal 5 sculpture that some of you recently described as a “disco turd,” created a virus for Macs, called Newton. It came on a little USB key that looked like a cross between a malevolent Apple and Pac Man and was aimed at, well, people like you or I, who spend far too much time fiddling around on their computers. The video, made this year, is part of the Design and the Elastic Mind show currently running at MoMA in NY. [Troika and Dezeen]
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