In an u
nprecedented move, Palm may be packing a “Demo Guy” into the box of every new Palm Pre when the phone hits Sprint retail stores later this Spring. According to a ninja tipster, Palm has been so happy with their “You don’t touch the phone! Only our Demo Guy touches Pre!” media strategy that they’re considering extending it to the consumer realm.
Recent Apple rumors have centered around the next-gen iPhone and a possible Apple tablet computer/e-book reader and the idea that Apple may be readying a downloadable books addition to its iTunes Store. We just received some intelligence that points in a different direction, though.
Sources close to us and claiming to be close to Apple are “99% almost sure” that the Cupertino, CA technology company is readying an offer to buy “syllables. All of them.” The source claims that instead of focusing merely on downloadable books, Apple thinks it can corner a larger market by controlling the use of syllables “in their entirety.”
A tipster just sent us an email containing what they claim is an internal Microsoft memo detailing the company’s near-term consumer electronics strategy. The memo’s title sums up Redmond’s new approach to the CE space:
Whatever Apple does, copy it. But make it less cool, like that Lauren chick in our ad.
Zuckerberg Botswana
A Silicon Valley tipster friend of ours just Skyped to say that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been persistently calling and SuperPoking (TM) Botswana President Seretse Khama Ian Khama offering to trade his company for the country called by some, “Africa’s Crown Jewel.”
kindle xxl
First they set out to save the book publishing world with the Kindle and Kindle 2, and then they announced plans to become the newspaper and textbook industries’ savior with the bigger, costlier Kindle DX. Now Amazon is going after the “Large Print Edition” industry, a source has informed us, with the forthcoming Kindle XXL.
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