Anticipating significant demand, Verizon asks staff to wait to buy new iPhone 4

Expecting that the number of pre-orders of the new iPhone 4 could completely outstrip its initial supply of the new CDMA-equipped iPhone 4, Verizon has sent an internal memo to its staff asking them to refrain from buying the handset “for the time being”. The memo, sent internally to employees by Verizon COO John Strattion and obtained byAppleInsider, tells employees that the “customers and non-customers alike have waited for years to see this product on America’s most reliable wireless network....

2 min · 280 words · Sharon Ruiz

AnyBeat is the social network that doesn’t even want your real name [invites]

When you ask someone what a “Social Network” is, their reply will probably be “Facebook”. We’re familiar with the experience on Facebook, you have to sign up using your real identity. In fact, if you use a fake one, you risk being kicked off. Twitter doesn’t require your real name, but the people who use Twitter the most tend to. Anybeatdoesn’t want to replace Facebook or Twitter, it just wants to be a place for you to hang out, be yourself, and communicate with interesting people....

5 min · 964 words · Luis Ewing

AnybodyOutThere? is the smarter, PG version of Chatroulette

There are a lot of people on the Internet. There are so many that we felt compelled to makean infographic of Internet Penetrationa couple of weeks ago. In total, 420 million people in China are online, followed 337 million in the EU and 239 million in the U.S. We have plenty of social networks to say hi to people that we have established connections with like on Facebook and Twitter, and we have websites to say hi to people we don’t even know like onChatroulette....

4 min · 660 words · Raymond Marsh

Anybots begins shipping its telepresence robots today

Starting today, February 1st, 2011Anybotsis officially shipping its telepresence robots with a slew of new features that could change business travel forever. I’m a big fan of the Anybot, who made our epic list ofthe hottest robots in 2010. Customers who pre-ordered an Anybot for a whopping $15,000 will begin receiving their orders this week. Customers who order at this site today will begin receiving their units in March. “I’ve been doing videoconferencing for years,” said Stephen Wolfram, a well-known physicist and founder of the computational knowledge engine Wolfram Alpha who tested the Anybot earlier this year....

4 min · 682 words · Sharon Osborn

AnyFix iOS lets Apple users fix ailing devices without a trip to the Apple Store

TLDR:AnyFix iOS can diagnose over 300 different iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or iTunes problems and fix them automatically. For as much as we love our iPhone or iPad or Apple TV, it’s like any piece of tech. It isn’t perfect and it’s subject to some occasional glitches now and then. Maybe it won’t charge. Or it could have a problem powering up. Maybe it isn’t syncing to iTunes. Or you could be freaked that it won’t load post the Apple logo or it’s stuck on that annoying spinning wheel....

3 min · 473 words · Carolyn Liu
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