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AT&T making out like bandit on iPhone
via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) by Mat Lu on May 19, 2008
Filed under: iPhoneApparently AT&T is making out pretty well on this whole iPhone thing. According to a Rubicon Consulting study (NYT link, registration required) of 460 iPhone users about half (47%) switched to AT&T to get the iPhone and agreed to pay an average of $19 more per month to use the iPhone over their previous cell. Those numbers are just about right in my case from when I traded in...
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Could 'electric computers' be the new iPhone?
via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) by Robert Palmer on May 22, 2008
Filed under: Rumors, iPhoneAn unusually-large shipment of 188 mysterious containers has arrived in North America from Apple's manufacturing partners in China. The contents? "Electric computers," a term that Apple has never before used on its customs declarations. Additionally, 67 of the containers were destined for Canada, landing in Vancouver, BC.These containers are not to be confused with...
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iPhone Pen wants to replace iPhone finger- Funny looking
via iPhoneIndia by Dev on May 21, 2008
I am not sure how many of us would want to replace our fingers with this funny looking pen. iPhone was invented make life simpler and thereby replacing a stylus with human fingers. And now we have this company which has brought to the market a strange looking stylus(pen). I am not sure if this would work, but you never know. Strange things happen when strange products are introduced.Here is what...
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AppStore is on the way. How much are you willing to pay?
via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) by Erica Sadun on May 21, 2008
Filed under: iPod Family, iPhoneApple's iPhone-based AppStore is sure to debut sometime in the next month or two. My guess is that it will launch at WWDC, with select close partners at the launch and then a general opening to the rest of the third-party developers. I'd be quite surprised if AppStore launched and allowed immediate access to everyone who wanted to post an application for...
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Qualcomm - investments in Femtocells and Spectrum
via Dean Bubley's Disruptive Wireless by Dean Bubley on May 20, 2008
Qualcomm's had a busy week in the UK.First off, it paid £8m for 40MHz of "L-Band" spectrum at 1452MHz, suitable for.... well, who knows, but possibly a MediaFlo mobile TV network. As it's unpaired, it's not usable by conventional CDMA technologies or its ill-fated UMB system.And this morning, it's been announced that it's taking a strategic stake in pico/femto specialist...
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Rumor: Simultaneous iPhone 2.0 release for Korea, Japan
via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) by Dave Caolo on May 20, 2008
Filed under: Rumors, iPhone3G iPhone rumors are like summer evening mosquitoes: very annoying but also impossible to ignore. Fortune is the most recent buzzing in our ears with a report that the next major iPhone release will include Korea and Japan at the same time. Specifically, tech news coming from Korea suggests that Apple is in talks with NTT DoCoMo of Japan and Korea's own Telecom...
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Phishers targeting iTunes users
via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) by Robert Palmer on May 20, 2008
Filed under: iTS, InternetMacworld is reporting that phishers are using the iTunes Store as a way to get personal information, using emails similar to those that purport to be from banks or auction sites. Andrew Lochart, from security company Proofpoint, Inc., says the emails indicate that users must correct a problem with their iTunes account. The email links to a phony web page asking for the...
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Flattening Symbian shipments - user apathy about smartphones becoming apparent?
via Dean Bubley's Disruptive Wireless by Dean Bubley on May 19, 2008
I've written before that I had my doubts about the supposed conversion of the world's mobile population to smartphones. And in particular, that many supposed "smartphone shipment" graphs include the use of locked-down smartphone OS's in places like Japan, and smartphones bought just because the user liked the looks of a device, rather than caring about the software.(Note to US...
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Refurb iPhones still contain previous users' data
via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) by Mat Lu on May 19, 2008
Filed under: Security, iPhoneHere's a slightly disturbing story from iPhone Atlas. Apparently user data is recoverable from iPhones that are being sold as refurbished. A detective from the Oregon State police recovered email, photos, and other user data from an "out-of-the-box refurbished iPhone." Indeed the image to the right is a partial screen capture from the refurbished iPhone.According...
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Two-thirds of premium PCs sold at retail are Macs
via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) by Robert Palmer on May 18, 2008
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Retail, Apple FinancialIn the "premium" computer market -- at least, for machines sold in brick and mortar stores -- Apple holds its own as number one. For the first quarter of this year, Macs accounted for 66 percent of computers that retailed for over $1,000, according to eWeek. That's not all: 70 percent of desktops sold at the same price point (or higher)...
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