With Apple’s general method of publicly denying the demand for a product until they announce its imminent release, Steve Jobs’ words at today’s annual shareholder meeting were quite telling. Without giving much away, Jobs stated: “The new products in the pipeline are the best I’ve ever seen in my life.” But in response to a particular shareholder’s request for Apple to develop “the ultimate media center” to give Microsoft’s WMCE a run for its money, Jobs responded: “we hear you loud and clear.” Quite the strong words from such a secretive man, though he was on a bit of a roll. In regards to the recent 17-inch MacBook Pro’s release, Jobs let everyone know, “Everyone wants a MacBook Pro because they are so bitchin’.” Thanks for that, Steve. Jobs also mentioned the possible demise of the CRT in their lineup, due to environmental concerns and their general lack of bitchin-ness.

 

 
Well those crazy cats over at ColorWare have done it again. This time the MacBook Pro has been given a once over and now sports a choice of 24 colors. Only the 15″ for now, $2449 for the 1.83 GHz model and $2949 for the 2 GHz. Each one ships in two to three weeks after you order.

 

 
Sony senior vice president Takao Yuhara met with reporters yesterday to announce that the company is working on a new digital audio player, software and download service to take on Apple’s iPod. Yuhara didn’t provide a whole lot of details, though he did say the player would be “typically Sony,” by which we assume he meant it would be hobbled by intrusive DRM, poor support for formats other than ATRAC and prices that will make it completely uncompetitive in a market where you can get a decent 512MB flash player for well under $100. Let’s hope we don’t end up with this year’s answer to the Bean.

 

 

Rumors are currently circulating that Motorola is planing to cash in on the Razr phenomenon with another thin phone - the Capri. The Capri is going to be a slider that should be similar size as the Slvr. Other sketchy details include quad band support, a camera and TransFlash memory expansion. Kent over at the CNET Alpha blog is speculating that this phone may resemble the Motorola MS600 (pictured above) which is only available in Korea currently.

 

  

No we haven’t made a typo, you have not misread the title and correct April the 1st has past. Nintendo announced today that the official name of their upcoming console that we’ve all been calling the Revolution is going to be Wii, and yes it is pronounced ‘we’. Wii’re (sorry couldn’t help it) not sure wii can learn to like it, but Nintendo being Nintendo they have a wonderfully thought-out explanation behind the name change:

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A French company called It’s Label has just unveiled a new Origami/UMPC device exclusively for the French Market. This UMPC sure looks good and has all the right curves. It features a highly stylized form factor and is extremely feature rich too. Let’s now look at the Origami It’s in more details and find out what all it has to offer.

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Orange UK is preparing to ditch its much derided “animals” campaign in favour of a generic branding campaign. The Animals campaign, costing around US$18 million was due to run to the end of this year, and was based around classifying customers as a type of animal when selecting their monthly tariffs. Orange said that it had uncovered four distinctive new groups with common personality and taste traits – the fun loving Dolphins, no-nonsense Racoons, sociable Canaries and the no-expense-spared Panthers.

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MOSCOW, LONDON — The Russian Interior Ministry started Tuesday destroying 50,000 Motorola C115 mobile handsets that were earlier seized from Russia’s largest mobile handset retailer Euroset, Irina Zubarev, a spokeswoman with the ministry’s K department, said Tuesday, ITAR-TASS reported.

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Casio just gave a bump to the top-end of their Exilim Zoom line-up by introducing the 10.1 megapixel EX-Z1000. The Z1000 features the same anti-shake DSP and meager 3x zoom we saw in Casio’s 8.1 megapixel Z850, but doubles the pixels count on the LCD to 230k. They also double the ISO sensitivity to a massive ISO 3200. All of this and the device still remains only 22.4mm thick. Casio kindly haven’t released any information on when or how much it will cost to get one of these in your hands though.

 

The new U510 from PQI in Taiwan is a 3mm thick unit thatp cks a whopping 16GB of storage! Now here is a device which takes its credit card form factor seriously, measuring up at 3.3 x 2.12 x 0.1-inches, and the USB 2.0 device features a thin retractable USB jack. No word on pricing or availability, but we’re guessing it’s not going to be cheap.