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Starting at 8AM PST, TheAppleBlog will be providing live coverage of the WWDC 2009 keynote!

Our live coverage service will allow you to make comments, view photos, in addition to the constant stream of new info! Be sure to drop your email address in the form at live.theappleblog.com to be reminded of when our coverage will [...]

Where, a location-based mobile application from Boston-based uLocate, is quickly becoming a must-have on newer mobile platforms such as the iPhone and Android. It’s been download 2 million times and garnered a million registered users, numbers that are likely to head further north once Palm launches its Pre — Where is a showcase application on Palm’s new [...]

Today is a big day for those of us in the GigaOM Network. After many months of hard work, we are proud to announce the launch of GigaOM Pro.
GigaOM Pro is home to solid research reports and industry analysis on everything from Cloud Computing to Mobile Technology, and of course, Apple. The best part is [...]

This morning I noticed a new set of takeover ads on CNN.com. Creating custom Get a Mac ads just for the web has become more common over the past few months, with CNN.com and NYTimes.com getting the most play.
It’s always interesting to see how Apple makes use of the layouts of these sites to really [...]

With less than 24 hours left in our Paintbrush/Backblaze Contest, we need more entries!
We’re really looking for some awesomely cheesy drawings here, so don’t feel like you need to be a pro artist. The cheesier, the better!
As a reminder, we’re giving away two 1-year subscriptions to Backblaze to the most badical drawings! The contest ends tomorrow [...]

We’ve had a couple of really great entries for our Paintbrush/Backblaze Contest but would love to see more!
We’re really looking for some awesomely cheesy drawings here, so don’t feel like you need to be a pro artist. The cheesier, the better!
As a reminder, we’re giving away two 1-year subscriptions to Backblaze to the most badical [...]

Yesterday we posted about a snazzy OS X-based painting app that could be considered the equivalent of MS Paint for Mac. Well, we decided it’d be a lot of fun to have a little contest to bring out the inner-artist in all of our readers!

Send in a drawing created ONLY with Paintbrush (a completely free [...]

If you didn’t cringe at the “wanna” in the headline, then you clearly ain’t grammatically in tune with your self to write for this here bloggin’ publication.
Okay, I’m done. I just needed an excuse to publish “ain’t” in an article.
At any rate, we’re looking to bring on a few new writers for TheAppleBlog. We’re really [...]

Good morning TABers! I hope all of you (at least all of you in the U.S.) had a fantastically lazy President’s Day yesterday.
I wanted to let all of you know that TheAppleBlog has jumped on the bandwagon and now has a Facebook page…so if you do the Facebook thing, it’s most definitely in your [...]

Apple’s iPod Touch devices might have been a hot gift over the holidays, according the data released by AdMob, a mobile advertising start-up. Apparently the iPod Touch requests more than tripled worldwide from November to December, with a particularly large spike in requests the week after Christmas. So much so, it is now the second [...]

Apple’s last Macworld Keynote Address is now available to view online.
It was announced last month that today’s keynote would be Apple’s last at the Macworld Expo. It was also announced that Steve Jobs would not be delivering the address but that Phil Schiller, Apple’s Senior VP of Worldwide Product Marketing, would be instead.
The keynote went [...]

We’ve made it in to the keynote, have decent seats, and currently really solid W-Fi. Crossing our fingers that the Wi-Fi (and our batteries) will stick around.
The vibe here is update and people are handing out “Bring Steve Jobs Back” apple-shaped flyers.
We’re not planning on doing any live blogging of the event, but I will [...]

I have been a frequent user of Truphone since it launched its mobile VoIP service over two years ago. What started as a simple VoIP client for Nokia Symbian S60 devices is fast becoming a unified client that does it all. You can make low-cost calls using Wi-Fi networks, utilize the wireless networks for call-back [...]

I was walking ’round the Moscone Center this morning after I snagged my media badge and noticed a guy sitting at the entrance to the Moscone Center. I inquired.
Nick Lensander (of The MacTips Podcast) was, and currently still is, the first and only guy in line. He’s been manning his post since 6:30AM, meaning he’ll [...]

Well, it’s 2009. The last year people can wear those ridiculous “200X” glasses. How unfortunate.
2008 turned out to be the biggest year in TAB’s four year history. The main event being that we joined the GigaOm family. It was an outcome I had in no way planned or pursued but it turned out to be [...]

Today, IDG World Expo (the folks behind Macworld), announced that they will be holding a Town Hall Meeting at next week’s show. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, January 7 at 5PM PST in Moscone’s Gateway Ballroom, room 102.
All Macworld attendees are free to and encouraged to attend as IDG will be taking the feedback [...]

At this past year’s SXSW one of the most popular “tools” used by attendees was a web app called SCHED. It was immensely helpful in figuring out what events were offered, who was going, and if you wanted to go.
I’m excited to announce that this is now available for Macworld 2009 courtesy of TheAppleBlog.
If you’ll [...]

Today, Apple announced that the upcoming Macworld Expo (Jan. 5-9, 2009) will be the last Apple attends.
On Tuesday, January 6, Phil Schiller will give the opening keynote and, according to Apple, it will be the last keynote given at a Macworld.
Apple says that trade shows have become a “very minor” part of their marketing efforts [...]