Archives: September 2008
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RUMOR: Major Apple TV shake-up coming on Tuesday, September 30?
An e-mail from Apple with instructions to remove all Apple TV displays and literature and to destroy them…
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Walmart.com shuts down DRM servers; stiffs its music customers
Yet another major purveyor of copy-protected media has alerted the customers that purchased downloads…
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Apple’s Safari 4 beta first browser to score 100% in Acid3 test
The latest beta of the WebKit engine that runs beneath Apple’s Safari and other browsers has achieved…
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Apple squeezes BlackBerry-maker RIM
Research In Motion gave investors a jolt when it reported quarterly earnings on Sept. 25…
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John ‘Apple Should Pull The Plug On The iPhone’ Dvorak: ‘Apple’s iPhone will be bigger than the PC’
What I’m about to explain may seem obvious, but I’m not sure anyone fully understands the sort of tectonic and fundamental shift…
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Nat’l Federation of the Blind and Massachusetts ink deal with Apple to make iTunes fully accessible
The National Federation of the Blind and Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley today announced a cooperative agreement with Apple…
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WebKit becomes first browser engine to fully pass Acid3
Today we would like to announce that WebKit is the first browser engine to fully pass Acid3…
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Apple preparing to refresh iPhone 3G with $199 16GB, $299 32GB models?
Apple reportedly plans to build 14 million to 15 million iPhone 3Gs from a previous target of 18 million for 2008…
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Nokia to unveil ‘iPhone killer’ code-named ‘Tube’ on October 2
Nokia will unveil its first touch-screen phone next week in a direct challenge to Apple’s successful iPhone…
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iPhone Software 2.2: Apple working to reinvent Copy and Paste?
With the iPhone v2.1 software out of the door, Apple is hard at work on v2.2…
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Microsoft CEO Ballmer: Apple’s iPhone and Mac will lose
During a dinner Thursday at the Churchill Club in Silicon Valley when asked about smartphones, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said…
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Apple preps iPhone Software 2.2; Safari interface changes (updated)
Apple has quietly begun testing iPhone Software 2.2, distributing the code…
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Analysts brutally slash RIM price targets; BlackBerry-maker’s shares meltdown
There are downgrades, and there are downgrades, but I have never seen the kind of downgrade parade…
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O2 and Apple to offer subsidized MacBooks to mobile broadband customers?
O2 is believed to be looking to capitalise on its relationship with Apple by bringing the manufacturer’s laptops…
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Judge dismisses Apple iPhone battery lawsuit without trial
Apple Inc. won’t face a lawsuit claiming it didn’t immediately tell customers about the limited life of batteries…
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Apple dents RIM as BlackBerry-maker spends $380 million trying to fend off iPhone
In my earlier post about Research in Motion’s bitter earnings miss, I speculated…
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Citrix allows employees to BYOC: Bring Your Own Computer (expect more Macs)
In a nod to how finicky people have become about the gadgets they use, software company Citrix Systems…
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RUMOR: Next-gen Apple MacBook, MacBook Pro to sport sleek aluminum skins (with photo)
Both the new 13-inch MacBooks and 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pros will share similarities not only in their employment of aluminum enclosures, but…
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BlackBerry-maker RIM profit misses estimates; shares drop in late trading
Research In Motion Ltd. reported profit and sales that missed analysts’ estimates…
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Apple starts sales of unlocked iPhone 3Gs in Hong Kong
The iPhone 3G is now on sale directly from Apple in the city of Hong Kong…
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Apple iPhone’s huge first mover advantage over Google’s Android
When it comes to Apple’s iPhone vs. Google’s Android, there’s a “simple reality that will…
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CNET’s Matt Asay: ‘There’s something very different about using a Mac’
The Mac is something more, and that is why more and more people choose to buy it…
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Apple patent filings suggest future Safari improvements
A pair of new patent filings from Apple include suggestions for improving the browsing experience…
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Dell and HP to slash notebook R&D
Dell and Hewlett-Packard are taking steps to slash notebook R&D expenditure for 2009…
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Stop the insanity! Apple’s iPhone App Store is not facing impending disaster
According to the predictable opinion scribes, Apple is risking disaster in the iPhone App Store…
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