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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
250,000 iPhones still not activated
The New York Times caught an interesting tidbit in the glowing report of Apple’s record sales in the last quarter.
During the company’s conference call with Wall Streeters, the company’s Chief Operating Officer, Tim Cook, said 250,000 of 1.4 million iPhones that have been bought, have not been activated with AT&T. Here’s the Times’ take (link).
Apple figures many of them were purchased with the intention to unlock them for use with another carrier.
It’s tough to say whether the strategy is the result of enterprising buyers simply trying to make a quick buck with pals using other phone carriers or if people just simply don’t want to switch to AT&T.
It’s not just important for AT&T. Apple gets a cut of those service activations.
Microsoft beats out Google with Facebook deal
Putting smiles on the faces of Facebook investors and stickin’ it to Google at the same time, Microsoft said late Wednesday it has agreed to invest $240 million in the social-networking site, placing Facebook’s value at $15 billion.
Microsoft and Google had been courting the fast-growing site, which has about 49 million active members.
Microsoft also is expanding its advertising relationship with Facebook, making it the exclusive third-party ad partner and putting it in charge of selling international Facebook ads. That’s a big win, since 59 percent of Facebook users are outside the U.S.
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Bloggers find unreleased Dell on FCC site
A couple of bloggers have found paperwork and photos of an unreleased Dell computer on the Federal Communications Commission Web site.
The Dell XPS A2010 appears to be an all-in-one computer, a la the Apple iMac. It seems that the machine will be Bluetooth enabled and might come with an optional Blue-ray burner and TV tuner.
See the Gizmodo posting here, and the PC Joint posting here. Here’s the FCC site that the bloggers talk about.
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