Apple today issued a media alert announcing details for the July 21st release of its financial results for the third fiscal quarter and second calendar quarter of 2009.
The results will cover sales from March 28th, 2009 through June 26th, 2009, and will be released at the close of trading (4:00 PM Eastern / 1:00 PM [...]

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Microsoft is happy to announce that they will be opening several Microsoft retail stores near and neighboring Apple retail stores come later this year, and early 2010.
While Microsoft declared its intentions to enter the retail game and counter Apple’s public image months ago, its chief operating officer Kevin Turner on Wednesday revealed just how important [...]

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SinoCast Daily Business Beat reports that Foxconn, Apple’s Taiwanese manufacturing partner for the iPhone, has begun production of a China-specific iPhone lacking Wi-Fi connectivity.
Two production lines in the Foxconn Shenzhen plant are producing 90-coded mobile phones, device that looks like iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS, said one source.
The mysterious products might be the very model [...]

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While many of the early successful iPhone and iPod touch games came from small-time developers, big-name content creators like Electronic Arts, id Software and Konami are flocking to the platform, using their brands and marketing muscle to compete.
The App Store has about 13,000 games in 19 separate categories, ranging from old-fashioned board games to complex [...]

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Developers will notice that applications that are rated 17+, and are submitted to the App Store do not come with up-to-50 promo codes that you would receive otherwise.
As it stands, neither the 3.0 software nor iTunes display parental warnings when using a promo code to purchase apps with a mature (17+) rating, so Apple has [...]

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Apple has earlier today announced that customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications in just one year from the Apple App Store. Aside from such, there are more than 65,000 apps available on the App Store, and there are officially over 100,000 developers in the iPhone Developer Program working on releasing these thousands of [...]

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