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New AT&T specific features rumored for future iPhone update

Sep 07, 2009 No Comments

Apple and its exclusive US wireless provider AT&T could soon deliver new carrier-specific features to iPhone users through a future software update in a bid to increase customer satisfaction… Tweet This Post

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Apple To Kill Off iPod Classic, Double Down On Touch, iPhone Developer Predicts

Sep 06, 2009 No Comments

Apple’s annual iPod/iTunes product event will take place this Wednesday in San Francisco. In addition to announcing new iTunes features, Apple will almost certainly introduce an updated version of the iPod touch, and perhaps the iPod nano; rumors suggest they’ll both get cameras. (Video cameras, ideally.)… Tweet This Post

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iPhone 3G and 3G S officially getting MMS on September 25

Sep 03, 2009 No Comments

After months of speculation (and frustration) MMS for the iPhone 3G and 3G S is officially arriving on September 25, AT&T has confirmed. This is a full 3 days after summer officially ends (AT&T’s original deadline was “late summer”) as our own MG pointed out earlier today, but like a lot of things with Apple/AT&T, [...]

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Sales of iPhone in China Set Under 3-Year Accord

Aug 30, 2009 No Comments

China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. announced a deal with Apple Inc. to sell iPhones in China starting later this year, bringing the popular device to the world’s largest mobile market for the first time… Tweet This Post

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Apple, AT&T face yet another iPhone MMS lawsuit

Aug 30, 2009 No Comments

For at least the third time this month, Apple and AT&T are being sued by a consumer complaining of being duped into believing that multimedia messaging, or MMS, was already available on the iPhone. Filed in the Northern District of Ohio on Wednesday (PDF hosted by Wired), plaintiff Deborah Carr says Apple and AT&T misled [...]

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Is Apple the Enemy of the TV Industry? Microsoft Thinks So

Aug 29, 2009 No Comments

Now Microsoft’s Director of Consumer and Online in the UK predicts that the same turmoil is going to hit the television industry in the next few years. And unless the TV business “aggressively move its content online” and builds “a critical mass of content that the traditional buyers of airtime will understand and buy into,” [...]

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Facebook 3.0 For iPhone Now Available On The App Store

Aug 29, 2009 No Comments

Nearly two weeks after submitting the app to Apple, Facebook’s totally revamped 3.0 application is finally live on the App Store, according to the app’s developer Joe Hewitt. You can download it now here. The store currently shows that the app is version 2.5, but if you click the Download button anyway you’ll get the [...]

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Apple to retain, redesign plastic MacBook family

Aug 26, 2009 No Comments

Once rumored for extinction, Apple’s entry-level polycarbonate MacBooks are on the verge of a refresh that will solidify them at the base of the Mac maker’s notebook offerings for the foreseeable future, AppleInsider has learned… Tweet This Post

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From Facebook to Apple: How to Fix the iPhone App Store

Aug 25, 2009 No Comments

The Apple iPhone App Store has been a lightning rod for criticism and controversy: a race to the bottom for app prices, FCC investigations, and strange app bannings just to start. It’s gotten so bad that Apple VP Phil Schiller has been doing damage control. Now an important figure has entered the debate: the developer [...]

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Apple Will Sell 5 Million Copies Of Snow Leopard, Says Analyst (AAPL)

Aug 24, 2009 No Comments

Apple (AAPL) could sell about 5 million copies of Snow Leopard in the third quarter, estimates analyst firm Piper Jaffray. The analyst firm estimates the Mac OS X installed base at over 40 million, and says the 5 million unit sales will add $66 million to Apple’s operating income in the quarter… Tweet This Post

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Steve Jobs Is Laser Focused on the Apple Tablet

Aug 24, 2009 No Comments

We know Steve Jobs is back working as Apple’s CEO. We also are fairly confident that the company plans to launch an Apple Tablet device soon, although likely not at an upcoming event in early September. And now, we have one of the more concrete reports to-date about the importance of the device to Apple… [...]

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It’s Here! Pre-order Mac OS X Snow Leopard Right Now

Aug 24, 2009 No Comments

The Apple store was down for quite a while just now, and lo and behold when it was reinstated Mac OS X Snow Leopard became available to mankind – that is to say you can now pre-order a copy. The major update to OS X, aka 10.6, will start shipping next Friday August 28, as [...]

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