Wireless carrier China Mobile has confirmed that the company is still in talks with Apple about offering the iPhone in China even though rival China Unicom last week announced a distribution deal for the handset.
[iPhone Alley] According to Macworld, the talks between Apple and China Mobile, the world’s biggest carrier by subscribers, yet to reach [...]

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Psystar claims it’s just like Microsoft, Google in new antitrust lawsuit filed in Florida.
[ComputerWorld] Mac clone maker Psystar last week sued Apple for a second time, charging that it illegally ties the new Snow Leopard operating system to its hardware.
Psystar also asked a federal judge in Florida to rule that the small company has the [...]

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Ars Technica reports that Apple resellers are currently reporting low stocks of most iPod models, and no additional shipments of the existing models are reported to be available. Additionally, resellers report that the stock-keeping units (SKUs) for all existing models have been classified as discontinued.
[Mac Rumors] The current line of iPods is on its last [...]

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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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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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For those of you that are not yet in the know, Apple has decided to remove the space found between 3G and S (which stands for Speed). The new name for their new product is now the iPhone 3GS, sans space. The old (above, to the left), the new (above, to the right).
This isn’t [...]

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Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster was a little off with his estimation of 500,000 sales noted on June 18th. Apple yesterday announced that they’ve succeeded in the selling of over 1 million iPhone 3GS models June 19th through to June 21st, 2009.
If you read the bottom of the June 18th story, you will see where [...]

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According to CBC News Canada, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has apparently been spotted back at Apple’s Cupertino, California campus on Monday, the same day that Steve Jobs issued his first statement since going on his leave of absence this January.
“Customers are voting, and the iPhone is winning,” Jobs said in the statement about the latest [...]

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Along with the iPhone OS 3.0 firmware release earlier this morning, Apple has undergone some iTunes store terms and conditions updates.
Something else you may notice, upon downloading specific games and applications, is a notice stating that “This content may not be appropriate for children under 17″. This is an appreciated addition to when it [...]

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Apple said it like it is. “How to do everything on iPhone”.. 3G.. S, that is.
If you are one of the millions whom plan on purchasing an iPhone 3G S sometime this year, or possibly even early next year, then these how-to’s and feature videos are for you. Heck, if you need another reason as [...]

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“In the 12 years since Steve Jobs came back to work at Apple, they’ve delivered eight amazing announcements which revolutionized existing businesses, threatened established industry leaders, and changed the way people think about technology,” Mitch Wagner reports for InformationWeek.

Apple’s 8 Revolutionary Announcements:
• 1997: The Return Of Steve Jobs
• 1998: The iMac
• 2001: Mac [...]

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Well, WWDC has gone underway, and the new iPhone has been announced. We all had a really strong gut feeling that a new iPhone would be announced this month, this year, but nobody was for certain.
Now it has been announced. The new iPhone device from Apple is named the iPhone 3G S, the S standing [...]

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On March 26th, Apple made the announcement that this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, otherwise known as WWDC, will be taking place at the Moscone West convention center in San Francisco on June 8th through to June 12th.
The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is the premier technical event for developers and IT professionals innovating with Apple [...]

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At the Apple press event today about the iPhone OS 3.0, the following capabilities/features were announced;
- In-App purchase to enable more app functionality
- peer to peer connectivity
- accessory connectivity
- Google map controls
- push notifications
- cut and paste
- landscape mode
- Messages (MMS)
- voice memos
- new Calendar support
- enhancements to the Stock App and search (Spotlight).
- Bluetooth [...]

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