App uses HealthMap technology; allows individuals to track, report local outbreak information.
[Reuters] BOSTON, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A new iPhone application, created by researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab, enables users to track and report outbreaks of infectious diseases, such as H1N1 (swine flu), on the ground in real [...]

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Microsoft has officially announced that the next skin point release for their handheld operating system, Windows Mobile 6.5, will launch on Oct. 6 and include App Store Windows Marketplace for Mobile (catchy!) and MobileMe MyPhone services.
[The iPhone Blog] WMExperts asks the impertinent question:
Will Windows Mobile 6.5 be available for any phones [...]

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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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Software developer Rockstar Games announced that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will arrive for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch handsets later this fall.
[iPhone Alley] According to Touch Arcade, the game, which is presently available for the Nintendo DS, follows the story of Huang Lee, a young Triad who travels to Liberty City after the mysterious [...]

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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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Did AT&T get a sour apple when it snagged the iPhone?
[Wall Street Journal] Maybe. AT&T’s exclusive right to offer Apple’s smart phone over the past two years has attracted new customers, and at least initially enhanced the phone company’s image. But it is difficult to know whether those benefits are worth what have [...]

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While all of the attention this weekend was around the launch of Snow Leopard, Apple opened up three new retail stores; two new stores in the US and one in Germany.
[TUAW] First, the company opened a new store in Hamburg, Germany on Saturday, which is now Apple’s second store in Germany, after the store [...]

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Apple says it’s not to blame for a series of exploding iPods and iPhones, according to a report published on Friday. The company has been under fire, so to speak, for devices overheating and shattering across Europe and the U.K.
[Mac World] Sheesh… and you thought the data rates were bad.
Exploding iPhone Investigation:
This exploding [...]

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[Zdnet] “All right, buddy gimme the iPhone, credit cards and PIN numbers.”
“Yes, sir, here you are.”
“Now, get outta here.”
That was more or less the conversation in the appropriately named Pittsburgh neighborhood of Shadyside, home to an Apple store.
Back home, the victim grabbed his computer, started up MobileMe and tracked the thief down to Warmart.
Police [...]

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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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This one caught us by surprise, but it comes from a source that has always been 100% reliable: Not only Apple may be working on a 10-inch tablet, but also in 13″ and 15″ models, one running Mac OS X.
[Gizmodo] This source claims that the two touchscreen prototypes—made of aluminum, but on the shape of [...]

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We have done some research, and it appears than the rumors of iPhones exploding all around the world—”world” as in “France, UK, and Belgium”—are greatly exaggerated.
[Gizmodo] Here are all the known cases, and Apple’s official answer:
In France
• 26-yo security guard Yassine Bouhadi claims that his iPhone exploded when he was texting his girlfriend. [...]

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Daily Finance is reporting today on the iPhone’s pending release in China. We’ve been reporting on this gradual deal for a while now. Back in July it looked like the deal might be delayed until 2010, but earlier this month, Apple’s VP of iPhone and iPod product marketing Greg Joswiak (among others) traveled to China [...]

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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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