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 for women (and I suppose certain men, come to that) with long fingernails can’t properly [...]

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AT&T’s service plan for the iPhone 3G - in comparison to the first-generation iPhone - jumped up $10 per month. This, in turn, means that even though the iPhone 3G itself is cheaper up-front, you will still be paying MORE than if you were on a first-generation iPhone plan. The extra $10/month ads up to [...]

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Elance is a freelance programming, web design, graphic design web page where you can find people to do work for you for a cost. You come up with the idea, post it on Elance, and have people bid on your project. You pick the developer, then pay them before, during, or after the project has [...]

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Eric and I have been extremely busy with, well, life (or maybe we’re just being really lazy like fellow puppy above). We haven’t had as much time as we’d like to work on Touch Podium news postings. Unfortunately, we actually have a set list of over 40 stories that we’ve known about for about a [...]

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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 updated version of the phone next month.
After almost a year of strong sales that [...]

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After offering, and then yanking the whole free WiFi thing, AT&T and Starbucks have finally gotten their ducks in a row and are now once again offering free WiFi service — for real this time. As you might expect, there’s a slight change to the way it works.
Aside from the obvious requisite of being [...]

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Those of you who are seeking, or are already engaged in higher education and have been mulling the idea of getting some flavour of Mac will love this year’s Back to School promo, which was unveiled this morning, and as predicted, it’s even better than last year.
Qualifying buyers can choose either a free 8GB iPod [...]

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Registration for iPhoneDevCamp 2 has been opened since May 25th.  This year’s iPhoneDevCamp will be held at Adobe Systems in San Francisco, so if you are a local resident of the camp and want to attend, and haven’t bought your tickets just yet, you may want to head on over to the registration page and [...]

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Thestreet.com took the time to interview Gary Krakow about what he wants to see within the second-generation iPhone.
Gary Krakow has put together a list of the top 15 changes he wants Steve Jobs to make before the new iPhones hit stores this summer. His list was in fact larger, but he had to cut it [...]

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Below you will find a list of features that iPhone users and non-users alike would like to see made for Apple’s iPhone. The list of features was sent in to thestreet.com and can be seen published here.
AW says:
“Would like to be able to take movies with the camera. A 3 MP camera [...]

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The growing trend in the automotive world lately has been to give new vehicles the ability to integrate with portable electronics — primarily PMPs and DAPs, and in particular, iPods. Given the popularity of car kits and FM transmitters, it seems inevitable that the technology would eventually trickle down to the vehicular level.
The latest [...]

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So, yeah. Apple has received shipments of a total of 188 crates full of “electric computers” since mid-March which have stopped rolling in, last shipment coming in on May 17th, and nobody knows exactly what’s inside (except for Apple, of course). The shipment came in from Apple’s manufacturing partners in China, and of the 188 [...]

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According to iPhone/iPod Touch hacker Jonathan Zdziarski, refurbished iPhone’s may contain the personal data of previous owners of the device.
“A verified detective from the Oregon State Police notified me this afternoon that an out-of-the-box refurbished iPhone he purchased contained recoverable personal data including email, personal photos, and even financial information which he was able to [...]

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A patent Apple Inc. has recently filed hints towards the iPhone and iPod Touch eventually having custom applications tailored to merchants they visit. As detailed by AppleInsider, the proposed concept calls for a local wired or wireless network at a business, with one or more routers such as an AirPort Extreme. Somewhere on site would [...]

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Believe it or not, there are at least 23 people willing to drop $6,000 on a 24-carat gold iPhone. These twenty people have bid 69 times (as of this post) to pay these astonishing amounts of money on a piece of pocket-sized hardware.
It’s ridiculous how so many people are willing to spend 3 months worth [...]

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