News and notes

Verizon’s president is one of a handful of Apple and AT&T competitors not sounding nervous and excessively defensive about the iPhone, instead seeing as an opportunity to get North American consumers interested in music-playing phones. Attaboy, Denny, stiff upper lip.

iSkin has a pretty smooth-looking faux-leather sleeve out with their new SOHO line. The […]

Wireless charging: coming to electronics near you

An article from Business 2.0 has exciting news on the prospects of wireless charging of consumer electronics. Recent startup Powercast is driving much of the momentum in this area, having agreements with over 100 companies in various partnerships. One of the companies known to be working with Powercast is Philips, so this looks […]

iPhone release at WWDC: surprises in store?

If you haven’t heard it yet, CNet News.com has reported that the iPhone will be released on June 11. The source of this date is a salesperson for Cingular, which makes this all rather puzzling. A front-line salesperson for Cingular is unlikely to have much inside information, so this could simply be a […]

OWC announces 2.5-inch hard drive enclosures

For those of you with a spare 2.5-inch hard drive lying about after an upgrade or from an old laptop, OWC sent us this announcement on a new offering that might be of interest:

March 29, 2007, Woodstock, IL — Other World Computing (OWC) http://www.macsales.com, a leading Mac and PC technology company, announced today two new […]

Apple files for MagSafe patent

MacNN has an interesting piece on Apple’s efforts to file a patent for their MagSafe connector, in case you were worried that another company was going to use the idea. This could potentially keep other notebook makers from instituting this kind of functionality, as it’s a fairly broad patent for an electromagnetic connector. […]