Posted on 21 January 2008 by Chris Davies
Having yanked their content from iTunes after arguing with Apple over the prices charged for video - and accusing the company of slashing the cost of shows such as The Office and Scrubs so as to promote iPod sales - NBC are now apparently close to making up. In a Financial Times report about network CEO Jeff Zucker, the NBC head-honcho suggests working relationships are beginning to be patched ...
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Posted on 21 January 2008 by Chris Davies
As we reported last week, Apple is now offering the iPhone to corporate users. The chief difference appears to be a separation of the voice and data - or, more accurately SMS messaging - elements of the standard consumer plans: the former can be selected from AT&T's usual business range, while the latter are broken down by the number of ...
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Posted on 18 January 2008 by Ken Allen
All iPhones that were bricked after attempting a firmware upgrade from an unlocked iPhone can now get their iPhones back by upgrading to Apple's latest v1.1.3 firmware. Put the iPhone in recovery mode, and hook your brick up to your computer to start iTunes. After restoring and upgrading, iTunes will not automatically activate your iPhone so you will have to ...
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Posted on 17 January 2008 by Chris Davies
With firmware 1.1.3 and the advent of turn-by-turn navigation on the iPhone - albeit using assisted-GPS, which could prove to be too slow or inaccurate to give you timely directions - there's now a legitimate market for in-car holders of your precious Apple phone and good reason to keep it in your eye-line (because that old "glovebox pixies might steal ...
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Posted on 17 January 2008 by Chris Davies
If you're both an iPhone and GMail user then you might have another reason to eschew any illicit unlocking and go straight for the 1.1.3 firmware upgrade: it quietly changes the connection between the Google email service and the Apple handset from POP to IMAP. Basically, that means that any changes performed on the iPhone - such as marking emails ...
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Posted on 17 January 2008 by Chris Davies
Enterprise users have long been begging for an iPhone of their own - meanwhile, their IT departments have been flatly refusing, quoting not only the difficulties in securely hooking up a consumer handset to a business network, but also AT&T's general reluctance to offer non-consumer tariffs. Well, according to a tip-off to The Boy Genius Report, AT&T are planning to announce ...
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Posted on 16 January 2008 by Chris Davies
Talk about mixed messages: while China Mobile seemed pretty clear in announcing that they'd rejected the iPhone and broken off talks with Apple regarding sole-carrier status in the customer-rich Chinese market, Steve Jobs has revealed that discussions are still underway and that the manufacturer is still interested in reaching a deal with the operator.
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Posted on 15 January 2008 by Ken Allen
Despite all of the commotion around the Macbook Air at Macworld, our guys James, Vincent, and Ewdison still managed to get a video of the Macbook Air's first advertisement up on YouTube in a fashionable manner. Hopefully this isn't the 56% reduced packaging Steve was talking about!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtkMMQRKqB0[/youtube]
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Posted on 15 January 2008 by Ken Allen
All the Rumors were true, the Macbook Air has been released today at Macworld. Boasting a weight of 3 pounds, .76 -.16 inches in size from front to rear, a full size backlit keyboard, 13.3-inch display, mult-touch gestures for the trackpad, iSight built in, 1.6GHz (1.8Ghz optional) Core 2 Duo , 2GB RAM, 80GB HDD (64GB SSD Optional), 802.11n WiFi, ...
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Posted on 15 January 2008 by Ken Allen
09:37 PST: Steve announces a long awaited iTunes Movie Rental service.
Apple has come a long way in movie and song downloads via iTunes, but Steve explains that their current numbers certainly aren't enough. Apple has sold 7 million movies, 125 million TV shows, and last week Apple sold their 4 billionth song. Today Apple will be releasing iTunes movie ...
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Posted on 15 January 2008 by Ken Allen
09:24am PST: Steve Jobs announces new features for the iPhone along with an already known iPhone SDK release in February.
iPhone v1.1.3 features include Google Maps cell tower triangulation called Skyhook Wireless for virtual GPS to pinpoint your general location and give directions to where ever. Skyhook Wireless has driven all around the USA in their vehicles and collected physical ...
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Posted on 15 January 2008 by Chris Davies
Less than half an hour until Steve Jobs' Macworld Keynote, and over at SlashGear Vincent & James are waiting to go in to livecast the whole event.
Will we see an ultraportable MacBook Air? What about a 3G iPhone? Check out the Livecast and find out!
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