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Monday, 08 September 2008

Best Buy US begins selling iPhones

Jonny Evans

Apple extends coverage/distribution of its iPhone in the US with a Best Buy deal, as Apple mobiles begin appearing on the retailer's shelves this week.

Monday, 08 September 2008

Apple event: pre-show rumours

Jonny Evans

Apple may be holding its cards close to its chest, as iPod and iTunes rumours fly, a swift round-up of this weekend's latest rumours surrounding Cupertino.

Monday, 08 September 2008

iPhone raises bar for smartphone sales

Jonny Evans

Gartner claims 32.2 million smartphones were sold in the second quarter this year, up 15.7 per cent from the year ago quarter...

Monday, 08 September 2008

Apple admits UK boffin invented the iPod

Jonny Evans

Apple turned to a UK inventor for help in its case against Burst.com, while he lost the patent (because patent law demands cash up front), Kramer lays claim to inventing the iPod - in 1979...

Monday, 08 September 2008

Microsoft starts its photocopiers - calls in its 'gurus'

Jonny Evans

Is Microsoft imitating or flattering with its clarion call response to keep Windows in the limelight? New corporate strategy owes a debt to Apple.

Friday, 05 September 2008

Spore for iPhone "later this month"

Mark Hattersley

Contrary to Will Wright's announcement at the Apple Store, Spore for iPhone will not be on sale at the App Store today.

Friday, 05 September 2008

O2: 89% of Brits happy to pay via mobile phone

Carrie-Ann Skinner, PC Advisor

Will iPhone users soon carry all their money on their mobile phone? Who knows - but an experimental field trial in London showed many people like the notion...

Friday, 05 September 2008

Google exec praises iPhone, Chrome

Paul Krill, Infoworld

"I'm a huge Apple fan, I'm a huge iPhone fan. It's really opened up computing in the mobile world," says Google's Matthew Glotzbach, product management director for Google Enterprise

Friday, 05 September 2008

Apple licenses new chip tech for mobile devices?

Jonny Evans

A company linked with Apple has announced a major deal that could see new technologies implemented in future Apple products.

Friday, 05 September 2008

Beatles for iTunes in 2009?

Jonny Evans

Rumours that music from the Beatles will be made available through iTunes surface once again, begging question if there's no smoke without fire will anyone still care by the time the music makes it online?

Friday, 05 September 2008

Blizzard in iTunes Store

Jonny Evans

Blizzard continues to explore game music spin-off deals, offering tranche of fresh content through iTunes.

Friday, 05 September 2008

iFund manager talks Apple, iPhone, Google

Jonny Evans

"10 million iPhone users are outselling the entire US market of 250 million mobile devices,” notes iPhone application development fund manager

Friday, 05 September 2008

O'Reilly launches iPhoneLive conference

Jim Dalrymple, Macworld US

iPhone developers invited to attend latest O'Reilly conference event, iPhoneLive, set to take place in California this November

Thursday, 04 September 2008

US election speeches available through iTunes

Jonny Evans

Speeches from both US political blocs have been made available for watching/listening (there's some video) through iTunes

Thursday, 04 September 2008

iPhone US carrier AT&T suffers 3G, EDGE outage

Matt Hamblen, Computerworld

AT&T says it has addressed and repaired a system outage which saw some US users lose 3G and EDGE connectivity yesterday.

Thursday, 04 September 2008

Apple and AT&T slipped into iPhone suit

Jonny Evans

The complaint was filed in a San Diego court on August 29. Plaintiff William J Gillis Jr wants to turn it into a class action, alleging that Apple and AT&T have sold more iPhone 3G's than AT&T's network can handle.

Thursday, 04 September 2008

Apple iPhone sales on target, iPhone nano possible - analyst

Jonny Evans

Apple is experiencing strong iPhone sales, an analyst observes - and may well plan a small voice and music only iPhone nano...

Thursday, 04 September 2008

iTunes 8 details revealed?

Jonny Evans

Expect new song recommendation application - Genius - to appear inside iTunes; expect new, advanced and phantasmagoric visualizer effects, says Digg founder, Kevin Rose.

Thursday, 04 September 2008

iLounge shows images of new iPod touch, nano

Jonny Evans

Veteran iPod-focused website, iLounge, has published images it claims depict the next-generation iPod nano and iPod touch devices set for announcement by Apple next week.

Thursday, 04 September 2008

Report dims hopes on iTunes Unlimited

Jonny Evans

Apple's plans to launch a music subscription service cast in doubt as industry insiders reportedly know nothing about it...

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