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Australian resellers began receiving mysterious packages from Apple on Friday with a warning across the top that breaching the boxes ahead of June 10th would be a violation of their non-disclosure agreements with the company.
mactalk.com.au, notes that June 10th in Australia is actually around the same time of Apple chief executive Steve Jobs’s June 9th WWDC keynote in the US. The site adds that it believes the boxes contain a single demonstration 3G iPhone to be displayed by the resellers immediately following the company’s announcements.
Earlier this year, the Australian Apple fan site published a report in which it said that local resellers had started to receive guidance from the Cupertino-based company regarding a local 3G iPhone launch during the final week of June.
The report added that the touch-screen handset would arrive unlocked for use on many of the nation’s wireless carriers and that Australian Apple resellers, unlike those in the US and Europe, would be privy to market the device to their customers.
Just because you like to ride on two wheels instead of four doesn’t mean you can’t go green. Meant to be an urban cruiser, the Brammo Enertia Electric Motorcycle (US$12,000 and up) uses six Lithium Phosphate battery modules to propel you from zero to 30 mph in just 3.8 seconds, with a top speed of 50mph and a range of 45 miles from a single 3-hour charge. The fact that it looks fantastic is just icing on the cake.
It’s almost too much to ask for, but here is the banner, just raised in NYC moments ago, in advance of Jobs’s Keynote at the WWDC. In-built fully-functioned GPS is the hot word on the street at the moment also. If that is so, I’d hate to have shares in Garmin..
The text below is quoted from another source. Nameless.
“I work at an Apple Premium Reseller, and I just saw my roster
for June the other day….now take this with a grain of salt, but I’m
pretty confident about it…I usually only work Thursday and Friday nights, But on the weekend of
19th June through to 22nd June, EVERYONE in the store is rostered on
that weekend, Saturday and Sunday. The reason I mention this is
because the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper said the Apple Sydney
Store is opening on the 19th June at 6pm, and this would indicate to
me an iPhone launch perhaps? It took me a while to realise, but that’s
most likely why every staff member in my store is rostered on that
weekend of the 21st and 22nd as it will be “busy”, I was told by the
manager by not told why.”
Of course, this doesn’t confirm anything, but does sound kind of promising
Apple’s 24-hour flagship 5th Avenue retail store in Manhattan is in the process of shutting down for the night. An unusual move for the 24-hour store. Apple’s retail page reflects the temporary shutdown:
Please note we will be temporarily closed Thursday, May 29 at 3:00 p.m. and will reopen Friday, May 30 at 9:00 a.m. During this time, please visit one of our other two Manhattan locations.
Employees are telling passersby that a commercial is being shot at the 5th Avenue Apple store. We’ve been told that Apple’s 5th Avenue store has only been entirely closed twice in its history: the iPhone launch and the Leopard launch.
According to MacRumors sources, Apple is actually filming a commercial for the upcoming 3G-capable iPhone with filming to occur inside and around the 5th Avenue store.
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For the record, I have actually been inside the 5th Ave NY store and it remains one of the highlights of my retail life.. It’s THAT cool.. josh.
Apple has just officially filed a patent for an in-screen / device-covering solar film for it’s iPod range.
Watch this space..
j,
Bristol based renewable energy company Marine Current Turbines has completed the first installation phase of the 1.2MW SeaGen Tidal System at Northern Ireland’s Strangford Lough - a site chosen for its combination of fast tidal current and ability to provide shelter from bad weather which may hinder the construction process. It is expected that the breakthrough power plant will be operational around mid-year with its massive 16m diameter twin rotors harnessing the tides to produce the equivalent amount of energy it takes to power 1000 homes. After its final assembly at the Harland & Wolff dockyard in Belfast, the crane barge “Rambiz” positioned the 1000 tonne structure onto the seabed 400m from the shoreline where it will be secured by four pins drilled to a depth of around nine meters.
You know it’s the future, when you stumble across a cool song written about someone employed as a coder for a big company.
Thanks Jo-C
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