Archive | June, 2010
Best Buy no longer taking iPhone 4 pre-orders
Best Buy is the latest entity hit by the immense interest in Apple’s upcoming iPhone 4. The nationwide retailer announced on their website this afternoon that they are no longer accepting pre-orders for Apple’s next-gen iPhone. Earlier today, AT&T also announced that it was suspending iPhone 4 pre-orders to ensure that orders already processed will […]
Continue reading...Android team “laser focused” on UI improvements
16. June 2010
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TechCrunch reports that Google’s Android team is committed to implementing UI enhancements designed to improve the broader Android user experience. The [Android] team more or less has the core features they want at this point, say our sources, although more tweaks are certainly coming. But Google wants to put an end to the desire of […]
Continue reading...Apple releases iTunes 9.2 ahead of iPhone 4 and iOS 4 release
16. June 2010
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In light of the upcoming iPhone 4 and iOS 4 release, Apple earlier today released iTunes 9.2, a new update which includes the following features and improvements Sync with iPhone 4 to enjoy your favorite music, movies, TV shows, books and more on-the-go Sync and read books with iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4 and […]
Continue reading...FBI arrests iPad hacker on Felony drug charges, turns out he’s also racist and anti-semitic with a podcast on iTunes
16. June 2010
Last week, a large number of email addresses of iPad users were made public due to a security vulnerability on AT&T’s servers. The exploit, which was run via a script attack, was carried out by a group calling themselves Goatse Security. When the dust settled, the folks at Goatse had accumulated 114,000 email addresses, a […]
Continue reading...iPhone 4 pre-orders from Apple now pushed back to July 14
16. June 2010
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Hot on the heels of AT&T announcing that they’re temporarily suspending iPhone pre-orders comes word via Apple’s website that iPhone 4 orders processed through the Apple website won’t ship until July 14th. Yesterday evening, both Apple and AT&T ran through their allotment of iPhone 4 pre-order units, with Apple stating earlier today that over 600,000 […]
Continue reading...Why the number of overall iPhone apps is important
16. June 2010
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Michael Gartenberg on the importance of app store titles: First, Apple announced that the app store now has 225,000 apps with 5 billion downloads. That’s all in just under two years. I can’t quantify this for certain but that would make Apple’s mobile platform the fastest growing platform in history. Period. In a market driven […]
Continue reading...AT&T suspends iPhone 4 pre-orders citing unprecedented demand
16. June 2010
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AT&T’s servers yesterday buckled under the pressure of immense iPhone pre-orders that far exceeded any one’s expectations. By early afternoon, AT&T had already exhausted its supply of pre-order iPhones, and subsequently pushed back the shipping date for iPhone pre-orders to July 2.
Continue reading...Apple announces over 600,000 iPhone pre-orders, apologizes for ordering glitches
16. June 2010
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If you tried to pre-order the iPhone 4 today, whether from AT&T or Apple, you might have encountered a little bit of trouble. Completely taken aback by the interest in the upcoming iPhone, Apple and AT&T were simply ill-prepared to handle the volume of orders rolling in.
Continue reading...Report: Microsoft offering iPhone developers wads of cash to port apps over to Windows Phone 7
16. June 2010
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With Windows Phone 7 being Microsoft’s last ditch effort to salvage any semblance of relevance in the smartphone market, the folks at Redmond understand that in today’s market, you can’t just get by with a snazzy UI and sexy hardware. You need apps, good ones, and a lot of them. The only problem is that […]
Continue reading...Jobs on Apple surpassing Microsoft in Market Cap
16. June 2010
Steve Jobs, keeping things in perspective, on Apple surpassing Microsoft in Market Cap a few weeks ago. “It doesn’t matter very much. It’s not what’s important. It’s not what makes you come to work in the morning…It is a little surreal.”
Continue reading...US Apple Store now officially out of pre-order iPhones
16. June 2010
Wow. First AT&T ran out of their allotment of pre-order iPhones, then the UK Apple Store followed suit, and now the US Apple Store is also barren when it comes to the iPhone 4. Visitors on Apple’s US online store looking to pre-order Apple’s latest iPhone are now being told that devices will ship by July […]
Continue reading...Ship date for iPhone pre-orders from UK Apple Store pushed back to July 2
15. June 2010
Man, the folks in the UK simply can’t catch a break when it comes to getting their hands on new Apple products. First, the iPad release was pushed back after US demand for the device blew past Apple’s internal projections. And now, the ship date for UK iPhone pre-orders has been pushed back all the […]
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16. June 2010
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