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iPhones Staged to Take Over US Congress

Posted 24 October 2008 @ 3am in News

The Hill reports that iPhones are beginning to be at the top of the “must-have” list for members of the US Congressional House of Representatives.

The Chief Adminstrative Office (CAO), which overseas the communictions systems of the House is reported to have started testing iPhones within Congress to see if they will meet the needs of [...]

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iPhone 3G Gives AT&T Nearly One Million New Customers in Q3

Posted 22 October 2008 @ 2pm in News

Yesterday Apple announced that iPhone 3G sales surpassed Research in Motion’s Blackberry by approximately 1.5 million units in Apple’s fiscal fourth (calendar third) quarter. Today, AT&T announced that it saw 2.4 million iPhone 3G activations in roughly the same period.

Of these activations, roughly 40%, or approximately 960,000, were for new AT&T customers. According to AT&T, [...]

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iPhone Sales Grow 527% Year Over Year

Posted 21 October 2008 @ 10pm in News

Apple sold 6.3 million iPhones in its just-reported fiscal fourth quarter. That compares with 1.1 million iPhones (of the original variety) sold in the fiscal fourth quarter of 2007, which was the device’s first full quarter of sales. That represents year-over-year growth of 527%. iPhone sales more than doubled from the fiscal fourth quarter of [...]

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Huge iPhone Data Bills If You Cancel Your International Plan

Posted 21 October 2008 @ 6am in News

If you’re planning to travel overseas and want to use your iPhone for data transfer with AT&T’s international data plan, don’t count on canceling the add-on plan as soon as you get back. Readers report that canceling the plan before 90 days after the transfer has occurred will trigger charges for data at the full, [...]

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Source Code Runs Amuck After NDA Drop

Posted 17 October 2008 @ 7am in Development, News

Now that Apple has relaxed some of the more noxious portions of the iPhone SDK non-disclosure agreement as we previously reported, developers, publishers, journalists, and websites are running to catch up and let information about released versions of the iPhone SDK. One website called Apps Amuck is ringing the bell hard with “31 Days of [...]

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iPhone, iPod Touch Takes Over at Texas University

Posted 17 October 2008 @ 7am in News

The students at ACU were the lucky recipients of either an iPhone 3G or iPod Touch plus a collection of Web Apps written by ACU. This is just one example of an upswing in Apple sales to educational organizations which in recent years has been in decline. Apple’s sales have eclipsed Dell, which [...]

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Apple Claims “Neglect,” Aims to Have Lawsuit Dismissed

Posted 16 October 2008 @ 6am in News

We’ve reported on numerous lawsuits surrounding the Apple iPhone 3G in previous reports here, here and here. Apple was quiet at first, but has now fired back by asking a US court to throw out a lawsuit filed by dissatisfied iPhone users, because they failed to ask for a repair or a refund.

The suit filed [...]

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iPhone Coming to More Retailers in the US?

Posted 13 October 2008 @ 5am in News

Apple is reportedly planning to expand US iPhone 3G distribution by adding to the roster of current retail outlets, which includes AT&T, Best Buy and Apple’s own stores. According to the Boy Genius Report, Apple has its eyes on Walmart.

Speculation holds that the iPhone 3G will be on sale in Walmart stores in mid-November [...]

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Plaintiffs Gain Ground in iPhone Lawsuit Against Apple and AT&T

Posted 6 October 2008 @ 6am in News

Apple and AT&T have been hit with more iPhone lawsuits than you can count on one hand. One of the suits, filed in Northern California and presided over by Judge James Ware, is proving a problem for the duo, who have made several unsucessful dismissal attempts.

Judge Ware declared, in his 32-page decision, that both AT&T [...]

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Obama launches iPhone recruiting, campaign tool

Posted 2 October 2008 @ 8am in News

Our good friend Raven Zachary is directing the launch of an iPhone Application for Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign

The most notable feature “organizes and prioritizes your contacts by key battleground states, making it easy to reach out and make an impact quickly,” according to the software.

The application anonymously reports back the number of calls made [...]

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