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Jan 09 2007
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This week will see tech-giants flexing their muscles to gain attention after a week of New-Year celebration. Two technology conferences, each in Las Vegas and San Francisco will be the battle locations. CEOs of Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq : MSFT, stock), Motorola (NYSE : MOT, stock), Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE : HPQ, stock), The Walt Disney Company (NYSE : DIS, stock), CBS Corporation (NYSE : CBS, stock) and others are delivering the keynote speeches and each of them will be watch very closely by thousands of industry analysts and journalists. Coincidently (or maybe it was pre-planned) these two conference were being scheduled in such a way that it clashes, so the poor journalists have no choice but to cut short their visit at Las Vegas to attend Captain Steve Jobs’ opening keynote at Macworld.

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that started on Sunday’s night, Microsoft’s Bill Gates announced Windows Home Server software, to be made available in the second half of 2007, will serve as the center of a home’s computer network, from photo and video storage to television to accessing computers files at the office away from home. Microsoft also mentioned the Xbox 360 gaming console would be acting as a set-top box for high-quality, interactive Internet protocol television (IPTV) by the end of the year.

Meanwhile, Jobs is preparing for the Apple Computer’s (Nasdaq : AAPL, stock) MacWorld in San Francisco today where he is expected to provide details on the rumored iTV set-top box. But this is just the appetizer – the main menu will be the highly talk-about Apple phone or iPhone (unlikely to be called that due to the brand name is property of Cisco (Nasdaq : CSCO, stock)). There was abundance of Apple phone designs circulating on the net, such as this one. “Apple is about to touch off a nuclear war,” said Paul Mercer, a software designer and president of Iventor, a designer of software for hand-helds based in Palo Alto, Calif. “The Nokias and the Motorolas will have to respond.”

Well, if Apple indeed were to launch the iPhone today, it’s more than Nokia (NYSE : NOK, stock) and Motorola (NYSE : MOT, stock) – other giants to be awaken will be Sony Corporation (NYSE : SNE, stock), Ericsson (Nasdaq : ERIC, stock), Palm (Nasdaq : PALM, stock), Research in Motion (Nasdaq : RIMM, stock) and guess who … Google (Nasdaq : GOOG, stock), who reportedly has held talks with Orange, the telecommunications operator, about a multi-billion dollar tie-up back in Dec-2006 (another GooglePhone or G-phone?).

But there’s a concern on Apple phone competing with iPod if the new phone has the functionality of a phone and the highly successful iPod. Maybe the Apple phone will just be another standalone phone after all. Or maybe there will be NO Apple phone at all since it is known to spread misinformation in order to find leaks in their organization and also to confuse the competition. Apple die-hard fans however believe there is no smoke without fire – Apple Phone will be OUT. This possibility is made almost a reality when The Wall Street Journal confirmed that Apple and Cingular Wireless will be bringing out a mobile phone when Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs take the stage at MacWorld Expo today at 9AM PST.

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