High Tech Duck

Today at the World Wide Developer’s Conference, Apple announced the new 3G iPhone, now with GPS built-in, and an app to let you buy applications for the phone.  It will be sold for $199 for the 8GB version, and $299 for the 16GB version.

TUAW is reporting that Apple is about to release a developer platform called “Mac Fusion”, which can run Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

A couple of posters in the comments thread there think that this is really going to tick off VMWare, since they already have a product called VMWare fusion.

I think they’re looking at this the wrong way. I’d bet that Apple has done a deal with VMWare to distribute VMWare Fusion with that new hardware. If that’s true, it’s going to be a big shot in the arm for VMWare…. and not so much for Parallels.

<b>Update</b>: No such announcement at the WWDC keynote.  Sorry folks, move along…

Apple has posted their OS X 10.5.3 update.

I have to get one of these. Disney and Wowwee are going to release a Wall-E robot this summer for about $190. It’ll have 10 motors, sensors, and programming control. Fun stuff!

(Via Gearlog)

New from Qualcomm: HandSolo

The Financial Post has an interesting story on the rise and fall of the company Geosign.

The EU announced it would file no objections to the Google buyout of DoubleClick, and Eric Schmidt just made it official:

I’m pleased to share the news that we completed our acquisition of DoubleClick today. Although it’s been nearly a year since we announced our intention to acquire DoubleClick last April, we are no less excited today about the benefits that the combination of our two companies will bring to the online advertising market.

Read the rest at the Official Google Blog.

How embarrassing would this be to explain? Steven Levy, tech writer for Newsweek, had his MacBook Air accidently thrown away with some newspapers. Newsweek is going to pony up the $1800 to replace it, but still… wonder what the conversation to explain that must have been like?

Apple just released a 16 gig version of the iPhone.

Sun Microsystems announced that they plan to buy MSQL AB for $1 billion.