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Where Does Macworld Expo Go From Here?

Thursday, January 8, 2009

With Apple pulling out of Macworld Expo after this year, that has become the big question for IDG — the event’s sponsor. Steve Jobs’ presence at the show was what made the show a worthwhile stop on the tech trade show circuit, and without that Macworld loses a lot of its draw. One of the first [...]

12 Questions About Phil Schiller’s Macworld Expo Keynote: How My Guesses Last Week Jibed With Reality

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

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I say that I don’t do Apple predictions anymore, but I’m not above musing about upcoming events and expressing opinions about what could happen. Last week, I did just that for Phil Schiller’s first and last Macworld Expo San Francisco keynote, in the form of a dozen questions and attempts to answer them. Now that [...]

Apple’s Brilliant Video Engineer: Anonymous No More

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

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My favorite moment at this year’s Macworld Expo keynote had nothing to do with any of the products that were unveiled–it was was about the unveiling of a person. At last year’s Macworld Expo keynote, Steve Jobs waxed rhapsodic about the Apple engineer who had gone on vacation to the Cayman Islands, shot video, and had [...]

One Last Thing, And It’s About iTunes

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

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I guess Steve has “one more thing” trademarked. Phil wrapped up this years keynote with a little news on iTunes, which involves three things: price, which would now be in three tiers: 69 cents, 99 cents, and $1.29; the ability to purchase music over AT&T 3G; and what we’ve been waiting for, 8 million DRM-free [...]

17-inch MacBook Pro Coming

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

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Along with the other announcements from what has been a really low-key keynote is a new 17-inch MacBook Pro model. Inside will be Core 2 Duo up to 2.93-GHZ and up to 8GB of RAM. Dual GeForce graphics will be standard as well as a 320GB HDD. Biggest news here? The battery within the laptop [...]

More from SchillerNote: iWork.com

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

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Well, if this is it, I have to say this was probably the most boring MacWorld keynote ever, and its probably obvious now why Steve Jobs isn’t giving it. These announcements, save for the work on iLife, are missing any punch. iWork.com is not a full blown online version of the productivity suite as some had [...]

Second up from SchillerNote: iWork ‘09

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

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Phil said he had three things, and honestly so far I’m kinda unimpressed. Well, his next subject is iWork. Here’s what’s being announced here. Keynote: Will support “magic move” transitions, which are essentially can animate objects between two slides, movement of objects in a 3D space, new text transitions, and so forth. New themes are also [...]

First Up from SchillerNote: iLife ‘09

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

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Some neat enhancements in iLife ‘09 coming out of the keynote so far. Noteably the enhancements to iPhoto are catching my eye, and come in two new features: Faces and Places. Faces is actually a face recognition algorithm of sorts. Pictures of the faces of your friends are posted on a corkboard. Clicking on that face [...]

24 Hours to Go Until the Macworld Expo Keynote

Monday, January 5, 2009

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…which is a good excuse to shamelessly plug (yes, again) our liveblog coverage of same. I hope you’ll join us at www.technologizer.com/macworld09 tomorrow morning!

Dueling Keynotes: Phil Schiller at Macworld Expo vs. Steve Ballmer at CES

Saturday, January 3, 2009

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(if you came here looking for our live coverage of the Macworld Expo 2009 keynote, head over here.) Next week will see two tech trade show presentations by guys who are following very tough acts: Phil Schiller’s first (and last) Macworld Expo San Francisco keynote and Steve Ballmer’s first (and probably not last) Consumer Electronics Show [...]

Next Week: Two Big Keynotes, Twice the Live Coverage

Thursday, January 1, 2009

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As usual, this year will kick off with two of the biggest tech shows of the year, Macworld Expo and CES, scheduled so tightly that they overlap. But for the first time, Macworld Expo’s keynoter will be Apple marketing head Phil Schiller and CES’s will be Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. If nothing else, it marks [...]

12 Questions (and Attempts at Answers) About Next Week’s Macworld Expo Non-Stevenote

Monday, December 29, 2008

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We’re now just over a week before Macworld Expo–a timeframe that would normally be bulging at the seams with speculation about what the Steve Jobs keynote would reveal. This time, of course, there will be no Jobs keynote–Apple marketing head Phil Schiller will fill in at the final Apple keynote at the show. And there’s [...]

The Silence of the Fans

Friday, December 19, 2008

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Mac fan Lesa Snider King is understandably none too pleased with Apple’s decision to pull out of Macworld Expo as of 2010. She’s come up with a unique way to express her ire: She’s organizing Silent Keynote, an effort to get folks in attendance at Phil Schiller’s Macworld Expo keynote next month to remain silent [...]

T-Poll: Apple’s Macworld Expo Exodus

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

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So Steve Jobs is skipping Macworld Expo this year, and the rest of Apple will skedaddle in 2010. You can argue that that’s bad for Apple fans–my friend Jason Snell, editorial director of Macworld (which is a surprisingly distant arm of IDG from the Expo that shares its name) does so cogently here. But there [...]

Twelve Questions About the Apple-Macworld Expo Breakup

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

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Wow. Wow. Wow. Over the last few days, folks noticed that the traditional announcement that Steve Jobs would kick off IDG’s Macworld Expo with a keynote speech hadn’t come yet, and began wondering if he might be a no-show–as unlikely as that seemed. Sometimes, the unlikely is nonetheless reality: Apple has announced that marketing head [...]

Macworld Exhibitors Pulling Out, Downsizing

Friday, December 5, 2008

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Harry reported on Monday about the shrinking size of CES 2009. Well, the same economic pressures that are affecting the world’s largest electronics trade show is also putting a damper on Macworld 2009, which is presented by IDG. AppleInsider reports that some big names are altering their expo plans, including Adobe, Belkin, Google, and Seagate. Adobe [...]