At Apple WWDC 2008, Steve Jobs reveals the iPhone 3G with faster download speeds, longer battery life, GPS, a lower price, and a near worldwide release on July 11.
After opening up Apple's "Let's rock" event by defending his health,
CEO Steve Jobs immediately got down to the business of announcing the fall
lineup of new iPod software and hardware. As CNET's Kara Tsuboi reports, the company hopes the sleeker bodies in the iPod Nano and Touch lines will add to the 160 million iPods already sold.
For any home hobbyists or tech lovers, the show "Prototype This" is
going to be your new favorite TV show. In each episode, the four hosts
attempt to turn their wacky ideas into a reality. CNET's Kara Tsuboi spends
a day with the crew on location in the San Francisco Bay Area to learn about
a waterslide simulator, a "pyro pack," and a robot that can climb stairs.
From the MacBook Pro redesign to a $999 laptop offering, there were no
real surprises at Apple's media event at company headquarters in Cupertino,
Calif., on Tuesday. CNET's Kara Tsuboi recaps Steve Jobs' keynote speech.
She also hears from analysts about whether these announcements are enough
for the niche company to stay competitive.
At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Mark Terry of Moo Cow Music demonstrates a new music application that enables users to create tunes using various instruments and the phone's touch-screen pad. In the demo, Terry shows how a user can create a few riffs from Pink Floyd's 'Money' with the music app.
It's a battle between the two touch-screen titans of cell phones! Brian Tong brings you an instant Prizefight classic: the Samsung Instinct vs. the Apple iPhone 3G.
Dozens of countries participated in this year's "One Web Day," an
international holiday for the Internet. In San Francisco, teams of
volunteers fanned out across a low-income neighborhood with the goal of providing free, wireless Internet access to 1,000 residents. CNET's Kara
Tsuboi tagged along and has the story.
At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, S. Mark Williams of Modality shows off an iPhone application that gives detailed views of the human anatomy, including the heart and brain
At Apple WWDC 2008 in San Francisco, Ethan Einhorn of Sega shows off a new and improved 'Super Monkey Ball' for the iPhone--complete with 4 monkeys and 110 stages.
At the Apple WWDC 2008 in San Francisco, Michael Sippey of TypePad shows off a mobile photo-blogging application for the iPhone. Users can create posts, take photos, or add a photo. Users can also take photos with the iPhone's camera and add them to a post, as well as add photos from the iPhone library.
"Star Wars" creator George Lucas made a rare appearance to launch the video game "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed." Hear from the game's developer, the actor who played Darth Vader's Secret Apprentice, and eager gamers about why this version is a must-have for any "Star Wars" fan.
Spacecraft Messenger completed its mission early Tuesday and sent
stunning images of planet Mercury back to Earth. CNET's Kara Tsuboi
interviews a NASA planetary scientist about why there's been so little
exploration of the solar system's smallest planet and what researchers hope to glean from this mission and a planned orbit in 2011.
At the Apple WWDC 2008 in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs demonstrates GPS on the new 3G iPhone. Jobs shows how an iPhone traveling in a car going down San Francisco's famously crooked Lombard Street can be tracked as its user navigates the curves.
This week on the Mailbag, what happened to Planet CNET (it'll be back), the Buzz Out Loud video (it won't), where Molly gets her shows, and a crazy monkey Chrome-hater
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