Google Reveals Full FCC Response, Directly Contradicts Apple On Google Voice Rejection

Sep 20, 2009 No Comments by admin

Google has released a full version of its response to the FCC’s inquiry on Apple’s ban of Google Voice from the App Store, revealing the answer to ‘Question 2′ that had been redacted from the letter that was released in August. Question 2 asked Google to detail Apple’s stated reasons for rejecting both Google Voice [...]

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Google Voice rejection came from the top at Apple (updated)

Sep 20, 2009 No Comments by admin

Apple’s rejection of the Google Voice app for the iPhone went all the way to the top—the bad news was personally delivered to Google by none other than Apple’s Senior VP of Worldwide Product Marketing, Phil Schiller…

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Google Reveals Full FCC Response, Directly Contradicts Apple On Google Voice Rejection

Sep 20, 2009 No Comments by admin

Google has released a full version of its response to the FCC’s inquiry on Apple’s ban of Google Voice from the App Store, revealing the answer to ‘Question 2′ that had been redacted from the letter that was released in August. Question 2 asked Google to detail Apple’s stated reasons for rejecting both Google Voice [...]

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The long-awaited DreamScreen tablet computer comes from HP, not Apple

Sep 17, 2009 No Comments by admin

Hewlett Packard has beaten Apple to the punch in coming up with a beautiful tablet-like computer. The company’s just-announced DreamScreen products represent a new category of wireless connected screens. These screens are hybrids of slate computers and digital photo displays. They’re not multitouch screen-enabled. (You can easily imagine future models like that, once the costs come down). But [...]

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Industry Moves Round Up: ComScore, Apple; DoubleVerify; Double Fusion; IMVU; Allied Red

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments by admin

—comScore: Gregory Dale was promoted to COO from CTO, responsible now for overseeing operating activities, including the company’s Product Management, Custom Analytics and Technology groups. Dale has been at the company in various roles for a decade, joining shortly after its founding in 1999….

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Steve Jobs on Amazon and Ice Cream

Sep 13, 2009 No Comments

Apple’s chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, discussed his health and Apple’s new product line in an interview Wednesday with David Pogue, the personal technology columnist for The New York Times. Context has been added to the original quotes posted here…

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Heads up Apple, the Intel Netbook is unstoppable

Sep 13, 2009 No Comments

A typical flow of people passed through the laptop section in the 20 minutes I was there. Toward the end, all of the remaining customers (a few men and women, each) were marveling at all the cute, inexpensive laptops. Cute, inexpensive laptops to them, Netbooks to us in the media who like cut-and-dried categories…

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AT&T begins rolling out MMS for the iPhone

Sep 13, 2009 No Comments

A few hours ago, we got a tip from one of our readers that they’d popped into their iPhone messaging app this morning, only to find that they’d suddenly gained the ability to send MMS. We chalked it up as a fluke – AT&T promised it would launch on September 25th, after all, and they [...]

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BREAKING: MMS For iPhone Rollout Has Begun

Sep 13, 2009 No Comments

It’s two weeks early, but many US iPhone users are reporting that their phones now have the ability to send and receive MMS messages (eg. video and images). The hold-up was AT&T, with doubts in the past that its network could handle the load…

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Steve Jobs says no Apple e-book. No one believes him

Sep 13, 2009 No Comments

After Apple’s fun-but-not-earthshattering debut of a video-shooting iPod Nano earlier this week, Steve Jobs gave New York Times reporter David Pogue an interview. Asked if Apple was ready to debut an e-reader like Amazon’s Kindle — but much, much prettier, of course — Jobs said he didn’t think e-readers made sense:…

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Apple’s next big thing is Steve Jobs

Sep 12, 2009 No Comments

On September 9, Steve Jobs returned to the public eye in his first major launch announcement since his medical leave and subsequent liver transplant surgery. At the event, he announced a new line of iPods, new digital formats for music and videos, and, sadly, nothing from the Beatles. Rafe Needleman hosts, with Donald Bell, Erica [...]

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