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AT&T says initial iPhone sales double that of last year

July 23, 2008 - 4:00pm
AT&T said Wednesday that sales of Apple's iPhone 3G during the first twelve days were nearly double that of last year, this despite shortages that have seen backorders stretch one to three weeks at its retail stores. AT&T made the announcement wh...

Steve Jobs in good health following second surgery - report

July 23, 2008 - 1:00pm
Steve Jobs is reassuring some of his closest associates that rumors of his health are greatly exaggerated, but is telling those same people that he underwent a procedure this year related to his weight, the New York Times is reporting. "[In] recen...

AT&T developing voice-controlled iPhone apps (video)

July 23, 2008 - 4:00am
AT&T has developed a software trick that will let modern mobile handsets, including Apple Inc's iPhone, recognize voice commands without the need for specialized voice recognition software. The research project is based on a new version of AT&T's ...

Second firm tests Apple's legal resolve with Mac OS X-ready PCs

July 22, 2008 - 11:15pm
Ignoring action just taken against Psystar, a new company known as Open Tech says it's making Mac OS X-compatible PCs, and believes it has found a loophole that prevents legal action from Apple. Open Tech Inc. is following in the same vein as its...

Server, connectivity problems add to Apple's MobileMe woes [u]

July 22, 2008 - 9:40pm
A mail server crash and unexpected fiber-optic line problems are the latest in a long string of hiccups that have soured the launch of Apple's new MobileMe internet service and recently left some subscribers without email access for as many as five s...

Apple issues quartet of iLife '08 updates

July 22, 2008 - 9:20pm
Apple on Tuesday afternoon released four patches for its iLife '08 creative suite that touch on iMovie, iPhoto, iWeb, and the supporting infrastructure. iLife Support 8.3 Apple's most universal of the new updates, iLife Support 8.3 (10MB) is sa...

Apple may be eying sub-$1000 notebook market

July 22, 2008 - 4:00pm
Investment bank Piper Jaffray said Tuesday it believes Apple is readying new iPod and notebook products that will apply downward pressure to profit margins because they'll be priced more affordably, such as 13-inch MacBook that will fetch less than $...

Microsoft offers first hints at anti-Apple marketing blitz for Vista

July 22, 2008 - 3:00pm
Microsoft this week offered a window into the first phase of a mega million dollar advertising campaign designed to clear up 'misconceptions' about the quality of its Windows Vista operating system exacerbated by in-your-face marketing efforts on the...

Apple shares beaten late on concerns over CEO's health, guidance

July 22, 2008 - 12:00am
Apple handily beat expectations for its fiscal third quarter Monday, but investors used a late trading session to punish shares of the Mac and iPhone maker after the company offered conservative forward-looking guidance and refused to comment on the ...

Apple plans mystery "product transition" before September's end

July 21, 2008 - 10:20pm
During his quarterly financial results call, Apple's chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer revealed that the company will make a key "product transition" that cuts back on its profit margins to help shut out rivals. A frequent point of discuss...

Notes of interest for Apple's Q3 2008 financial results call

July 21, 2008 - 10:00pm
Apple on Monday announced the best spring quarter for earnings and revenue in company history, and has just finished a financial conference call with analysts and members of the media. Several notes of interest are available from the call. Apple s...

Apple posts profit of $1.07B, ships nearly 2.5 million Macs

July 21, 2008 - 8:35pm
Apple said Monday that third-quarter profits rose more than 30 percent to $1.07 billion, or $1.19 per diluted share, on sales of $7.46 billion for the three-month period ended June 28, 2008. These results compare to revenue of $5.41 billion and n...

Briefly: Snow Leopard Finder icons support QuickLook

July 21, 2008 - 5:00pm
Apple's upcoming Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system will reportedly see support for the company's QuickLook technology extended from specialized preview windows to Finder icons themselves. One person familiar with the pre-release software...

Apple Q3 preview: analysts place bets ahead of earnings

July 21, 2008 - 2:00pm
Apple is set to report earnings for its fiscal third quarter after the close of regular hours trading this afternoon. Analysts polled by Thomson Financial expect the company to post earnings of $1.08 on $7.37 billion in revenue, fueled by sales of 2...

iPhone 3G now all but sold out in 38 states

July 21, 2008 - 2:45am
With the iPhone 3G not even ten days old, virtually all of the Apple retail store stores open within the United States are without any examples of the device to sell on July 21st. The shortage is severe enough in the 38 states that claim Apple st...

iPhone 3G jailbreaking tool goes live

July 20, 2008 - 12:50am
The well-known iPhone Dev Team has released one of the first utilities to jailbreak iPhone 3G and let it run unsanctioned apps, albeit one with more than a few catches. The group's new Pwnage Tool 2.0 now simplifies the process of removing Apple's...

iPhone 3G and 2.0 affected by buggy software, sensors, wireless

July 18, 2008 - 10:55pm
While iPhone 3G itself is hard to buy, those who do own the new handset are reporting a number of common problems that range from crash-prone third-party apps to lag, Bluetooth, and GPS. Of all the problems, the most widespread is simply the tend...

Apple retail invades China this weekend (photos)

July 18, 2008 - 5:00pm
Ahead of the summer Olympics, Apple on Saturday will open the doors to its first retail store in China, a glass-enclosed high-profile shop situated in Beijing's newest retail development: the Village at Sanlitun. Keeping with his tradition of atte...

AT&T offers iPhone owners free access to 17,000 WiFi hotspots [u]

July 18, 2008 - 3:00pm
After months of confusion and a couple of false starts, AT&T formally announced Friday that iPhone owners in the United States can now access free of charge its nation-leading Wi-Fi network comprised of more than 17,000 hotspots. "AT&T knows Wi-Fi...

Apple hikes orders for notebook boards by 20 percent - report

July 18, 2008 - 2:00pm
With sales of Macs maintaining growth rates of more than two times the industry average and a pair of hefty portable updates in the pipeline, Apple is reported to have increased sharply its procurement of notebook-use circuit boards for the third cal...