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Apple’s Secret “Back to My Mac” Push behind IPv6

The Internet is running out of addresses.To get around this problem and a host of others not addressed in the existing Internet Protocol (IPv4),a new revision has been in development for years,called IPv6.Apple has a few tricks up its sleeve for pushing IPv6 adoption,and many Mac users are already chin deep in the technology without […]

LEAKED: First Shots of iPhone Nike+ Interface

We’ve known that Nike+ has long been in development for the iPhone. Now we’re finally getting a peek at the first shots of the interface. From what we can skim, Nike+ users will get all of the nifty performance graphs right on the phone (before this stuff was available on the web only). But the […]

What’s the Problem With iPhone 3G Reception?

CWmike writes “Apple’s iPhone 3G was just a couple of days old when reports began trickling onto the company’s support forum from dissatisfied customers complaining about poor reception. Although no one outside of Apple and AT&T — and maybe a chipmaker or two — really knows, that has not kept others from speculating, or in […]

Apple Can Remotely Disable iPhone Apps

mikesd81 writes “Engadget reports Apple has readied a blacklisting system which allows the company to remotely disable applications on your device. It seems the new 2.x firmware contains a URL which points to a page containing a list of ‘unauthorized’ apps — a move which suggests that the device makes occasional contact with Apple’s servers […]

Apple’s Market Cap Exceeds Google’s

Lawrence Person writes “Mac Daily News was one of many Apple-followers to note that Apple Inc.’s market capitalization exceeded Google today. That means that the combined value of all Apple’s outstanding shares of stock exceeded the combined value of all Google’s outstanding shares of stock. Apple’s stock is worth $157 billion and change vs. Google’s […]

Psystar “Definitely Still Shipping” Mac Clones

Preedit writes “Continuing its defiance of Apple, Psystar is reassuring customers that it is “definitely still shipping” its line of Mac clones. And, in a further nose-thumbing at Steve Jobs, Psystar this week said it’s now making Leopard restore disks available to its customers, even as Apple insists that Mac clones sold to date be […]

Infineon Chipset May Be Cause of IPhone 3G Issues

JagsLive sends along a CNet blog piece about a plausible theory to explain the iPhone 3G connection problems many users have experienced. Apple has not acknowledged any such problems. “Richard Windsor of Nomura published a research note… Tuesday singling out the iPhone 3G’s chipset, made by Infineon, as the probable culprit for the reception problems […]

Nomura analyst Richard Windsor and his extraordinary knack for sniffing out Apple iPhone ‘issues’

Good thing the iPhone was chosen as Time Magazine’s 2007 Invention of the Year, because a growing chorus…
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StarPlayer app promises to bring Sirius, XM to Apple iPhone

Sirius and XM have had their fair share of iPhone-related applications and buzz…
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Piper Jaffray analyst conservatively expects Apple to sell 4.47 million iPhones this quarter

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has upped his estimate of the number of iPhones he expects Apple…
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WSJ: Apple preps software fix for iPhone 3G reception issues reported by some

Apple Inc. is working on a software fix for its new iPhone 3G to remedy dropped phone calls…
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Apps that can turn Apple iPhone into an even more helpful travel companion

Downloadable applications from Apple’s iTunes App Store can turn your iPhone into an even more helpful traveling companion…
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Apple to celebrate Grand Opening of Apple Store Altamonte in Florida on August 16

Apple will be celebrating the Grand Opening of their latest retail store, Apple Store Altamonte in Altamonte Springs, Florida…
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Robosoft ports Feral’s ‘Battlestations Midway’ to Apple Macintosh

Robosoft today announced the release of its latest work in porting: the “Battlestations Midway” game for the Mac…
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Ex-Apple general counsel Heinen settles backdating case for $2.2 million

Former Apple Inc. general counsel Nancy Heinen has agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle options backdating charges…
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Oracle sees over 23,000 downloads of its iPhone apps in first month

Oracle’s business intelligence software for the Apple iPhone is making slow but steady progress…
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PC World doofus blames Apple for lack of DRM-free music in iTunes Store

iTunes gave us the 99-cent song download, thus paving the way for honest people to buy music…
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Analyst: Apple’s App Store for iPhone and iPod touch ‘has certainly changed the game’

Instead of working on her PhD dissertation, Eliza Block spent her summer designing a program that allows iPhone owners…
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Houston Chronicle: Why your student should take an Apple Mac to college

It’s back-to-school time again. So if you’re about to send your kid off to college with a new computer…
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Ousted Apple vet Tim Bucher heading up Dell’s quixotic music ‘strategy’

On Nov. 10, 2004, Apple CEO Steve Jobs had a strained conversation with Tim Bucher, one of the company’s engineering…
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New iPhone, iPod touch app streams iTunes collections anywhere; eliminates storage limits

The developer of desktop software that lets users listen to their iTunes libraries from any broadband Internet connection…
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Lehman Brothers expects Apple to sell 12.1 million iPhone 3G units this year

An agreement for Best Buy to start selling iPhones will help make already strong estimates for Apple’s device sales…
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Does Dell really want back into the MP3 player market?

The portable music player market keeps expanding, even as Apple’s iPod increases its dominance…
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Netflix suffers biggest outage ever

“Online DVD rental pioneer Netflix Incon Thursday worked feverishly to fix the most severe outage in its history…
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Apple premieres movies on iTunes Store in Australia and New Zealand

Apple today announced that movies from major film studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount…
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Qantas to launch iPhone version of website

It’s not official, yet, but a little birdy has told us that Qantas today will announce…
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Analyst: Voice-based GPS turn-by-turn directions for iPhone coming within three months

Apple’s online App Store for the iPhone, with hundreds of programs available so far, has been a big hit…
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T-Mobile to offer first Google Android phone; ‘big and bulky,’ it’s no Apple iPhone

Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA will be the first carrier to offer a mobile phone based on Google Inc’s Android…
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BBC embraces H.264 and AAC for online video and audio services

The time has come for the BBC to start adopting open standards such as H.264 and AAC…
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Apple gets huge, free Olympic promotion as super swimmer Michael Phelps sports iPod earbuds

here is one clear winner in the Bei-ca-ching advertising and branding sweepstakes…
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Software fix on the way for iPhone 3G reception glitches

Complaints over dropped calls and choppy Web connections on Apple’s iPhone 3G have sparked a wave…
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Apple preps Mac OS X 10.5.5 release

Apple last night pushed out another pre-release build of its upcoming Mac OS X 10.5.5 Update…
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PC Magazine: ‘Apple’s Crap Store’

Ninety percent of everything is crap, science fiction author Ted Sturgeon once said…
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ABC News, Associated Press propagate iPhone FUD

Amid increasingly loud complaints about spotty service and reports of potential hardware flaws on the 3G iPhone…
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RIM plans iPhone lookalike-not-workalikes; Nokia sputters that iPhone ‘not worthy of discussion’

Apple has launched its new iPhone decisively into BlackBerry’s business market…
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Infineon: no comment on alleged Apple iPhone 3G chipset problems

Infineon Technologies AG, Europe’s second-largest maker of semiconductors, declined to comment…
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First Google Android-based phone delayed; Android losing support?

HTC’s first phone based on Google’s Android mobile OS has not only been set back but may be part of a greater shift away…
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Report: Microsoft’s Windows Vista ‘security’ rendered completely useless by new ‘unfixable’ exploit

This week at the Black Hat Security Conference two security researchers will discuss their findings which could completely…
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Credit Suisse: Apple Mac will continue to outgrow overall market for many years to come

Apple is the seventh-largest personal-computer vendor in the world, but is widely regarded as one of the most innovative tech…
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‘I Am Rich’ developer sold 8 copies for $999.99 each before Apple censored app

Now that the phone is affordable enough for a wider audience, a new status symbol has emerged…
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