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 iTunes upgrade system serving up free iPod Touch 2.0 firmware for the better part of [...]

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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 the case for us lately. It’s unfortunately but also unavoidable. We are [...]

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

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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. What did Motorola in wasn’t simply the price cuts, nor only Motorola’s failure to [...]

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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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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 in the Android Developer Challenge, you’ll notice that the top picks contain quite a [...]

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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 the United States of America. (see here)
The device was then later announced available [...]

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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 video game. It wasn’t much, really. A simple tennis game he [...]

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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 second beta of the kit for public download and use.
It just goes to wonder; will this be the end of [...]

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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 one wanted to use those infernal things. (Lawn! Off! Now!) He even thought [...]

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