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  • May
  • 09
  • 2008

Rumor: .Mac relaunch to coincide with iPhone 2.0?

According to our anonymous tipster, .Mac will undergo a complete revamp that will coincide with the iPhone 2.0 launch (which everyone expect to occur at WWDC 08).

Taken from the transcript of the interview with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs at the D5 conference on May 30, 2007.Walt Mossberg (addressing Steve Jobs): You obviously have a very large Internet business with iTunes and you sell a lot of stuff…

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  • May
  • 08
  • 2008

AT&T Officially Lists Wi-Fi Hotspot Access with iPhone Plans

AT&T’s iPhone website (under ‘Plans’ tab) has been updated to reveal that each iPhone plan now includes access to their “more than 17,000 Wi-Fi hotspots, including Starbucks all for use in the U.S.”
It was first revealed last week that AT&T had quietly begun offering iPhone users access to thei…

Thursday May 08, 2008 12:02 AM EST; Category: iPhoneWritten by Arnold Kim

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  • May
  • 08
  • 2008

AMD: Intel’s misdeeds killing our long-term sustainability

AMD and Intel have been trading shots through the court docket since AMD first filed its antitrust lawsuit against Intel in 2005, so it's not particularly surprising to see a new 108-page filing from Sunnyvale and a prompt and massive reply from Santa Clara. AMD's filing does, however, contain a few new bits of information.

Having listed the various ways in which Intel allegedly abuses its monopoly position, AMD launches into the heart of its argument. In taking such actions, Intel has excluded AMD from fairly competing in the market and placed the company in a vice…

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  • May
  • 06
  • 2008

Apple Tries To Move Into Your Living Room

A lot of us carry a little bit of Steve Jobs around in our pocket, in the form of iPods and iPhones. Now, Apple is after the remaining bit of life-share that it doesnt already own, the home front.

The movie industry has always wanted to maintain custody of the user experience — in the theater, on home video and on television, which is why you once had to wait for Easter every year to watch “Ben Hur” on the…

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  • May
  • 06
  • 2008

Government wiretaps—the ones we know about—up 20% for 2007

Data released this week on 2007 wiretaps shows that nearly all intercepts are for “portable devices” and 80 percent of all taps target drug criminals. Secret FISA warrants are also up, and no one knows what’s happening with warrantless surveillance at the NSA.

And neither of these wiretapping numbers have anything to do with the warrantless surveillance being conducted on phone and Internet traffic by the National Security Administration. So take back all that I said above about surveillance only being…

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  • May
  • 05
  • 2008

New version of Installer.app is coming to iPhone

VERSION 3.1
- Local install repository (~/Media/Installer).
- Greatly improved sources refresh time.
- Added packages filtering for easy searches.
- Packages list is now separated by first letters for easier navigation.
- Package description field text height is now dynamic.

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  • May
  • 03
  • 2008

Is the iPhone Killing the Internet?

If you say that the iPhone is the greatest invention of your lifetime, few would bat an eye. But dare to claim that the iPhone is killing the Internet as we know it, you’d be laughed out of town. But that is the central argument of a new book “The Future of the Internet - and How to Stop It.” Read this interview with the author & hear his argument.

NEWSWEEK: There seem to be a bunch of books coming out attempting to grapple with where the Internet is heading and what it's doing to us. Jonathan Zittrain: I certainly think this is a particularly fertile time to be thinking about the future…

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  • May
  • 02
  • 2008

The Mac in the Gray Flannel Suit

Workers infatuated with iPods and iPhones — and unhappy with Windows — are demanding Macs at the office. And bosses are saying yes more often than ever before. Is business ready? Is Apple?

What's less obvious is that the enthusiasm is starting to spill over into the corporate market. It's a people's revolution, of sorts, with workers increasingly pressing their employers to let them use Macs in the office. In a survey of…

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  • May
  • 02
  • 2008

Supposed new iPhone specs, colors in the wild

Rumors are flying across both the Mac and non-Mac web like it’s June 28, 2007 all over again. While a rumor just last week brought rumblings of GPS and a thicker body, new details may offer more solid insight into what the next-gen iPhone looks like.

iLounge has come across some fairly believable images that reveal design changes and possibly even a new feature of the next iPhone. Of course, those details could also be hot air or even disinformation to throw off the early birds, but still:…

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  • May
  • 02
  • 2008

Next-gen iPhone spotted in the wild?

Well here’s an interesting one. French iPhone blog iPhon.fr got these pics from an anonymous and unverified source, and while there’s no way of telling if the shots are legit, they certainly have a truthy ring to them.

The whole plastic thing just doesn't sound right to me. It just not Steves style. Apple doesn't hand out prototypes to employees. The first generation was in the works for almost 4 years and there were no pictures like this. Most of apples…

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  • May
  • 02
  • 2008

Apple’s 5 Worst Hardware Flaws - And How To Fix Them

Apple is often lauded for its design chops. And Apples post-modern industrial design is lyrical next to Dells neo-Soviet brutalism. But Apple makes some really stupid choices. Here are the top 5 - and the best workarounds.

Apple prefers to spend money on CPUs and displays rather than memory and disk, so easy drive upgrades are more important. There’s no real workaround. You just have to pay Apple’s high prices for a larger drive at purchase or…

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  • May
  • 01
  • 2008

Adobe’s Open Screen Project: Write Once, Flash Everywhere

Adobe is making a big play to make Flash the de facto viewing environment not only for Web apps on your PC, but also on your mobile phone, your TV, and any other screen you can think of. It is announcing the Open Screen Project to make it easier to develop applications across devices'using Flash, of course.

The promise of the Open Screen Project to developers is the age-old dream of being able to write an application once and deploy it anywhere across any device. Adobe and its slew of partners in the Open Screen Project (Nokia, Sony Ericsson,…

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  • May
  • 01
  • 2008

Going Private: The Five ForcesCircles of Hell

A little long but worth the read.

With profits in the DVD rental sector harder to come by over the last couple of years, Movie Gallery boldly went ahead and purchased Hollywood Entertainment in 2005 for $1.2 billion, which included the assumption of $350 million in debt. The…

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  • Apr
  • 30
  • 2008

BREAKING: Rogers Announces iPhone Coming to Canada!

Rogers Wireless and Apple have agreed to terms to release the long awaited iPhone in Canada.

It’s about time we heard something from Rogers. Both companies haven’t been very open about the release of the iPhone. Most people have assumed it was regarding pricing issues and data plans (Rogers is not a fan of…