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Apple Is Now In Third Place

Apple is getting stronger in the PC business competition. A survey revealed that Apple is now successfully ahead of Acer, and has been the third biggest PC vendor in USA.

As quoted from Gartner, while the economy’s pace is getting slower, the shipping of Apple PCs is raising about 38.1 percent in United States.

Globally, the PC shipment in America grows around 4.2 percent in amount of 16.5 million units for this quarter. Just as comparison, Apple shipped 1.4 million units of PC, while Acer shipped 1.33 millions. On the top of the list is Dell, which shipped around 5.25 millions PC units, then HP is in the runner up.

Apple is hoping to have a bigger growth in the next quarter. It’s hoped that in the third quarter, PC shipment for students who are back to school will be stronger. Furthermore, Apple is also targetting PC buyers who dissapointed with lack of innovation in PC markets. Compares to HP and Dell, Apple has only a very small market, but has a big potential to grow. In Japan, Apple also shows a solid development, by shipping 130 thousand PC units in the first quarter of 2008

A Million Units of iPhone Have Been Sold In 3 Days

iPhone 3G made an excellent debut in its early presence. In 3 days the phone have been sold around a million units in some countries. Even Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs admitted that he could not believe that his new product can become that popular. Iphone 3G has attracted so much attentions in its week debut.

It took around 74 days to sell a million units of iPhone first generation. This iPhone 3G has made an amazing start around the world. It is true if we compare with its predecessor, iPhone 3G has so much more achievement. This is because iPhone first generation can only be sold around 270,000 units in its early debut.

However, we should remember that when iPhone 3G launched in the market, it was launched in some countries such as Japan, Hongkong, USA, and New Zealand at one time. While the predecessor, when it was born only been sold in United States and bundled with AT&T contract.

Moreover, the success of iPhone 3G debut doesn’t mean that everything went really well. This is related with global connection problem between iTunes server with AT&T network resulting the smartphone couldn’t be activated.

iPhone 3G Launching, Not As Smooth As It Seems

The Apple latest touchscreen phone have been officially sold at the same time on July, 11th. First buyers who had waited and slept in front of the Apple Store in Fifth Avenue, New York, was disappointed. The new iPhone 3G they bought could not be used right after they left the Apple because the gadget was not performing correctly. This issue is connected to global problem between iTunes server and AT&T so the iPhone can’t be activated.

Apple has already planned that iPhone 3G buyer can buy the gadget and able to use it right away. But this might only be a dream. Because they already have a very long queue, the store employees have asked the athusiasts to activate their iPhone manually by connecting it to an online computer.

Here Is The First iPhone 3G Owner

So many people were willing to queue for couple of days just because they wanted to be the first person to buy Apple iPhone 3G. They stayed all night in front of the store that will sell this smartphone from Apple, battling hard against freezing weather.

Finally, their long waiting is over. iPhone 3G is officially sold from today at Apple stores. A student from Auckland has become the first person who get the iPhone 3G. The college student who successfully bought the first iPhone 3G is Jonny Gladwell, 22yo. His determination to get his phone has been paid off finally. He has been queuing in front of the Auckland Apple Store from Tuesday, after he was challenged by his friends that they would pay for the phone if he’d willing to stay in the queue.

CommunicAsia 2008; Take a Peek At iPhone Rivals

CommunicAsia Expo in Singapore has been a battlefield for iPhone rivals. Each of them has shown up their superiority against iPhone. There are at least 3 types of new phone that are believed can compete with iPhone, they are Samsung Omnia, Garmin Nuvifone, and HTC Touch Diamond.

Samsung, a cellular company from Korea, has Omnia as their line up. Equipped with 3.2 inch touchscreen, Omnia also has minimalist design just like iPhone, and off course, a touchscreen GPS navigation.

While Garmin, which has been known as Global Positioning System (GPS) equipment producer, takes the CommunicAsia visitors’ eyes with their Nuvifone. This touchscreen phone also looks like iPhone too. However, Garmin has officially claimed that Nuvifone is not an iPhone competitor. They would rather call it a navigation phone, because it has an excellent GPS ability.

On the other side, HTC Touch Diamond already came in the market a while ago . It also has a touchscreen navigation that  iPhone introduced. Even a newspaper in Indonesia called The Strait Times called HTC Touch Diamond as the first phone that can get close to iPhone ability.

Even Keyboard Needs Condom

Sometimes you are afraid to put your cup of coffee or tea near your computer keyboard because it might spill and ruin the keyboard. Well, fear no more, now there is a special wrapper for keyboard that can be washed with water when dirty.

This ‘condom’ for keyboard is called Rasfox, made from silicone and it is believed to give complete protection by wrapping the top side of the keyboard. Rasfox has transparent design so you still can see the keyboard tuts clearly.

Furthermore, Rasfox can reduce the clicking noise when we are typing the keyboard. Rasfox is developed by Lakesen International, an Apple’s accessories specialist company based in Canada.

This keyboard condom comes in five different color, blue, pink, white, black, and clear. Unfortunately, this product is only available for Apple Macintosh keyboard.

For iMac, Mac Mini, Power Mac G5and Xserve G5 users can choose three out of five colors available, which are blue, pink, and clear. As the Macbook Pro and Power Book can only use the clear one. MacBook 13″ users can choose all the color available.

What Is The Most Expensive Brand In The World?

Google internet search engine has again reach a very good achievement. This time, Google has been named as the top brand in the world with highest value. According to Millward Brown research analysis bureau, Google brand has a very high value, which is USD 86.1 billion.

Millward Brown has just published a list of the highest brands in the world for 2008 in a topic called “Brandz Top 100 Most Powerful Brands”. They did a survey on 50,000 companies and consumers around the world to rank them in the list while still considering the companies and consumers’ financial conditions as well as customer satisfaction.

In the information and technology world, Microsoft has ranked third beside Google with brand valued at USD 70.8 billion. Next is the computer vendor IBM ranked 6th and Apple sits in 7th position.

However, Apple should not be down hearted placed below its competitors, because recently, Apple has been named as “The Most Influential Brand In The World” in other survey.

iPod With Solar Energy?

Solar energy is expected to be the energy source for gadgets made by Apple company. This includes gadgets like iPod, iPhone, or even Macbook. This issue comes after the findings of patent application by Apple for gadget that equipped with panels of solar energy. The panel will be placed in the back of LCD screen.

Based on the placement of the panel, it is believed that the panel can absorb enough sunlight to provide enough power. The placement also enables Apple to add this solar energy feature without changing the design of the iPod, iPhone, or Macbook.

Problem that can occur from the use of solar energy panel in this gadget is about the durability and placement that takes off a very valuable spot on that gadget. If they place the panel in a surface that is too small will not be able to give maximum energy to make the gadget work.

Apple has registered a patent right for this technology. However, Apple is not the first company that use this technique using solar energy. Motorola introduced a similar technology in 2001. It should be remembered that not all technology patented by a company will be applied in commercial product. Apple might patent this technology without any intention of selling solar powered iPod.