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August 21, 2008

Apple Sued over 3G iPhone Woes

An Alabama woman has filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple , claiming that the iPhone 3G isn't twice as fast, as the company advertises, and is subject to a rash of connectivity problems, repo... More >

August 20, 2008

U.S. Cell Phone Sales Down from Last Year

According to a report by NPD Research , increased competition and economic conditions caused cell phones sales in the United States to decline in the second quarter.   Information Week reports... More >

August 19, 2008

Japan Warns of iPod Fires

Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry is warning users of Apple's iPod nano portable music player to be careful after three reports of minor fires involving devices that apparently overhe... More >

Apple's iPhone 2.0.2 Not Fixing Problems

Users expecting Apple's new iPhone 2.0.2 firmware to fix long-running 3G reception issues have been disappointed with the release, according to Computerworld . First reports indicate that users ar... More >

August 18, 2008

So Why Didn't Olympics Break the Internet?

So it's been over a week and all that streaming video from the Beijing Olympics on NBCOlympics.com didn't "melt" the Internet, as some have suggested it might.   ZDNet's Jason Perlow explai... More >

Palm Mistakenly Gives Preview of Treo 850

Palm finds itself the subject of publicity. We may never know whether it was intended or not.   The company's yet to be pubicly announced next-generation Palm Treo was mistakenly posted on the c... More >

August 14, 2008

HSBC Mulling Switch from BlackBerry to iPhone

Apple has begun touting its 3G iPhone as work friendly and Gartner has declared the smartphone enterprise ready, with caveats .   Meanwhile RIM's BlackBerry made a serious push in the North ... More >

Debugging the 3G iPhone Woes

A Swedish technical magazine says problems some users are having with the 3G iphone probably result from a hardware problem introduced during mass production, reports The Associated Press in a st... More >

Apple Nudges out Google as Silicon Valley's Most Valued Company

For the first time since Google's IPO in 2004, Apple beat out the search giant Wednesday to become the most valued company , reports The San Jose Mercury News .   Apple's stock was valued at $... More >

August 13, 2008

Apple Building Damaged in Three-Alarm Fire

The San Jose Mercury News reports that the roof and the second level at one of the six buildings on Apple's Cupertino campus were damaged in a three-alarm fire last night.   Hal Rooney, deput... More >

Yahoo's Fire Eagle has Landed

PC Magazine reports that Yahoo has released its location information platform, Fire Eagle . The free service automatically broadcasts a user's location from a cell phone.   So what's the poin... More >

August 12, 2008

U.S. Mobile Shipments Rise in 2Q

Despite ongoing economic concerns, cell phone sales in the U.S. grew more than 5 percent, according to a new Strategy Analytics ' report.   InformationWeek reports that 42 million mobile phone... More >

August 7, 2008

iPhone Ready for the Enterprise but with Caveats Aplenty

Gartner has given Apple's iPhone a guarded go-ahead for business use, reports  this vnunet.com article. In its "iPhone 2.0 is Ready for the Enterprise but Caveats Apply" report, the analyst firm su... More >

Furor Over iPhone's Ability to Zap Apps

The blogosphere's all a-twitter about the recently discovered URL in the iPhone that allows Apple to vaporize applications that have been installed.   Jonathan Zdziarski, author of the book "iPh... More >

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