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Before Podcaster, before Slasher — before even Pull My Finger, there was Mr Poot.  Indeed, before any of the controversy over Apple rejecting iPhone apps for arbitrary reasons started floating around the blogosphere, Iron Square felt the sting of Apple’s [...]

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That seems to be the question these days.  Until July 9th, jailbreaking was the only way iPhone and iPod Touch users could install and use third party apps thanks to the talented folks at the iPhone Dev Team who not only [...]

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Barron’s Eric J. Savitz shares his experience with the iPhone, and explains why he relies more on his BlackBerry 8700c than his iPhone.
Here’s a snippet of what Eric had to say in regards to the iPhone:
Let me [...]

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Alright, you’re reading an iPhone/iPod Touch blog, so you’re probably interested to know if there is anything better out there, am I right? Yes, I am.
I don’t have the answer to that question, however, I do have the answer to [...]

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Apple has hit a bit of a rough patch lately, no doubt resulting from having bitten off more than they could chew due to being completely unaware of how big the morsel was. 3G launch day activation problems, the [...]

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Wow. 5 days since an update — I do apologize folks. As I have said — and apologized for — before, life sometimes has a way of getting in the way of your best laid plans, and that’s been [...]

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LA Times staffer Michelle Quinn has a bone to pick with the iPhone — or would if her fingernails didn’t keep getting in the way. Therein lies her grief: The iPhone is just not fingernail-friendly, which poses a problem [...]

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CNN Money had an interesting article on whether the iPhone can avoid the “Razr trap” — company slashes prices on revolutionary device to appeal to larger market. It’s an interesting question, but the analogy isn’t completely apt in this case. [...]

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New York Times’ John Markoff shares his speculation on the second-generation iPhone.
Last June, Mr. Jobs began selling what has become one of the most talked-about consumer products in history. Now he faces a new challenge as Apple prepares to introduce an [...]

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That’s the new thing for the next generation of mobile devices: Location-based content. Applications that combine GPS location with other useful functions that deliver location-aware results. If you take a look at the latest announcement of the top 50 entries [...]

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Introduction:
Apple Inc. (website) announced their exclusive innovative first-time attempt at a cellular device on January 9th, 2007 - at the corresponding years MacWorld presentation. The company calls it, the iPhone.
The iPhone was first available later that year, on June 29th, 2007, in [...]

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In 1958, an MIT physicist named Willy Higginbotham, by all accounts a pretty dry fellow who worked on radar displays during World War II, brought something to the world that would ultimately change the way it amused itself. He invented the [...]

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Apple’s been hard at work with the new SDK (Software Development Kit). They had first started work on this in May of ‘07. Since then, they’ve released not only the first beta, but also, the [...]

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For a tech writer, PC Magazine columnist John C. Dvorak doesn’t really get it, and frankly never has. As far back as 1984, Dvorak dissed Apple’s first Macintosh and the whole concept of mice, believing that no [...]

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