The long awaited and speculated Apple iPhone has just been introduced today by Steve Jobs at MacWorld. The iPhone will have a 3.5 inch widescreen/touchscreen display, and will be a Cingular exclusive phone. It will come in two versions, a 4 Gigabyte for $499 and an 8 Gigabyte version for $599. Both of which will be flash based. Also mentioned was the battery life, which is 5 hours for talking and 16 hours for audio playback.
–The iPhone is scheduled to ship in June of this year.

“iPhone combines three products — a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching — into one small and lightweight handheld device.“

Specs for iPhone:

• Screen size: 3.5-inches
• Screen resolution: 320 by 480 at 160 ppi
• Input method: Multi-touch
• Operating System: OS X
• Storage: 4GB or 8GB
• GSM: Quad-band (MHz: 850, 900, 1800, 1900)
• Wireless data: Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + EDGE + Bluetooth 2.0
• Camera: 2.0 megapixels
• Battery: Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing; Up to 16 hours Audio playback
• Dimensions: 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches / 115 x 61 x 11.6mm
• Weight: 4.8 ounces / 135 grams

I am proud to announce that TheBlogJoint.com is now part of the 9rules community. This is a great deal for me and am honored that they have chosen this blog to be a part of the huge community of bloggers. 9rules brings a whole bunch of new visitors with similar interests in what I have to write, and hopefully will gain more popularity among the bigger names in the blogging world. I have already received welcoming messages from many people, and I thank you all. Hopefully these new readers will join in on some discussions in future posts.

TheBlogJoint.com has a great deal for our readers courtesy of the nice people over at Nuance.com, the makers of one of the best speech to text program called Dragon Naturally Speaking 9. We will be giving away 2 of their programs, and all you have to do is answer the two-question quiz below, and you are automatically entered into the drawing, and the winners will be chosen and announced in 4 days.

You can check out a demo of the program running.
Update: The contest is now over, we will announce the winners in a few days.

Mircosoft is now throwing their name in the hat of MP3 player market. The introduction of the new Zune player and software should arrive just in time before the hectic Christmas shopping season this year November 14 should be on the sale racks. Microsoft is serious about it’s entry into the proven MP3 player market, they have dedicated a new vision to what it’s calling the connected entertainment trend. ( Leave it to Microsoft’s spin doctors to reword existing technology.)
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It has been speculated over the past week that Google will aquire YouTube, the video giant. And today Google announced that they will buy it for $1.65 Billion in stock. This aquisition in Google’s eight year history is by far the most expensive. (more…)

Remember Prince of Persia? Double Dragon? Wing Commander?
Ever wish you could find those old floppy disks and load em again? Then you never can…and even if you do find em you then realize computers don’t come with floppy drives anymore?!?!

Abandonia is the answer!

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