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PR Experts: Apple Must Recall iPhone

Consumer Reports criticism puts company in a bind

(Newser) - Apple must recall the iPhone 4 or risk tarnishing its reputation, PR experts tell the Cult of Mac . The company's explanation that the handset's reception problems are the result of a software problem has been undermined by Consumer Reports, which blamed a hardware issue in deciding not to recommend the...

Antitrust Suit Against Apple, AT&T OKed

Bought iPhone with a 2-year plan? You're in on class action lawsuit

(Newser) - A federal judge says a monopoly abuse lawsuit against Apple and AT&T's mobile phone unit can move forward as a class action. The lawsuit consolidates several filed by iPhone buyers starting in late 2007, a few months after the first generation of Apple's smart phone went on sale, and...

Fun Facts About Apple
 Fun Facts About Apple 
one involves a real apple
Jul 11, 2010 3:15 PM CDT

Fun Facts About Apple

Computer giant's original logo featured Isaac Newton

(Newser) - Secretive , vengeful , and irresistible, Apple occupies a unique niche in technology and business. Some obscure facts about the company, courtesy of Mashable :
  • The Macintosh was named for a variety of real apple: "Steve Jobs is said to have tried to change the project’s name to 'Bicycle' while
...

Website: Steve Jobs Emails Were Real

Tech site accuses Apple's PR team of lying

(Newser) - This little tempest in the tech world isn't going away: Boy Genius Report today is lashing back at Apple and insisting that the email exchange it published between Steve Jobs and a customer is legit. (Jobs tells him to "calm down" about iPhone "rumors.") BGR says...

Steve Jobs iPhone Emails Fake: Apple

Apple CEO did not tell customer to 'calm down'

(Newser) - An email conversation between Steve Jobs and an irate iPhone 4 customer is fake, Apple's PR department says. The messages show Jobs taking a flippant tone with a customer who is angry over the new handset's widely criticized reception issues, Fortune reports. In one response, the Jobs impostor tells the...

Apple: iPhone Reception Woes a Software Issue

Displays show too many reception bars, thanks to faulty formula

(Newser) - Don’t trust your iPhone 4 when it tells you you’re getting great reception. Apple says it has found the root of all those reports that the phone’s having reception problems: its formula for calculating how many bars you’re getting is off. The company plans to fix...

Apple Sued Over iPhone 4 Glitch

Class-action suits allege fraud, negligence

(Newser) - Two class action lawsuits have been launched against Apple and AT&T by iPhone 4 buyers irked by antenna problems. The plaintiffs—evidently not satisfied with Steve Jobs' advice to "just avoid holding it in that way" to dodge dropped calls—accuse Apple of knowingly selling a defective phone....

Hmmm, Apple Hiring Phone Antenna Engineers

And company isn't budging about offering free cases

(Newser) - Apple is still pushing the notion that reception problems with its iPhone 4 are no big deal, but Engadget can't help but notice that the company is looking to hire phone antenna engineers. It found three job postings from June 23, the same day widespread problems surfaced. The Boy Genius...

Software Fix May Solve iPhone 'Death Grip'

Report says Apple will have a remedy next week

(Newser) - AppleInsider thinks the mysterious reception problems plaguing some users of the new iPhone might actually be a software problem—with a fix on the way within days. Most people are blaming the hardware, specifically the antenna, with all kinds of videos demonstrating that the signal goes way if the...

Steve Jobs: 'Just Avoid Holding It in That Way'

Apple's fix for reception issues is fairly low-tech

(Newser) - As the Internet rages about what seems to be an accidental bias against left-handed users by Apple, the people over at Engadget shared with the world tonight an email exchange between an Apple customer and Steve Jobs himself in which the latter responds to a complaint about signal degradation with...

Careful How You Hold the iPhone—It Can Lose Reception

Users complain of weird tech glitch if you touch antenna

(Newser) - When you hold the iPhone in your hands and touch the outside antenna band in two spots, it can drop reception (or at least lose bars). Put the phone down and your bars return. Gizmodo has the details of this odd glitch along with reader-submitted videos of the problem. (A...

Man in iPhone 4 Line Mugged
 Man in iPhone 4 Line Mugged 
plus more fom the queues
Jun 24, 2010 10:06 AM CDT

Man in iPhone 4 Line Mugged

Technophiles get in line, plus some early complaints

(Newser) - iPhone 4 mania is upon us: Long lines, early complaints, and...a mugging? News from the endless queues waiting for the device, which went on sale today in the US, UK, France, Germany, and Japan:
  • While those waiting in line were more than willing to give up their money to
...

iPhone 4 Lives Up to the Hype
 iPhone 4 Lives Up to the Hype 
Tech Review
Jun 23, 2010 7:29 AM CDT

iPhone 4 Lives Up to the Hype

Critics love the awesome camera, screen, and new features

(Newser) - The iPhone 4 hits tomorrow, and tech reviewers everywhere are incredibly impressed. Here's what they're saying:
  • The iPhone 4 is “a major leap over its already excellent predecessor,” writes Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal . The new features work very well, and the redesign “manages to
...

3 Million iPads Sold
 3 Million iPads Sold 
Jun 22, 2010 3:23 PM CDT

3 Million iPads Sold

11,000 million apps available for device

(Newser) - Consumers and business have purchased 3 million iPads so far, TechCrunch reports. A statement from Apple revealed that the new gadget had hit the 3 million mark in the 80 days since it was released, way ahead of analysts' expectations. Apple also announced that 11,000 iPad applications are available,...

Why Microsoft Is Doomed to Be an Also-Ran
 Why Microsoft Is Doomed 
 to Be an Also-Ran  
Henry Blodget
Jun 21, 2010 6:42 PM CDT

Why Microsoft Is Doomed to Be an Also-Ran

Or worse. Its two biggest businesses—Windows and Office— are close to obsolete

(Newser) - Henry Blodget winds up big and delivers a broadside against Microsoft on Business Insider today . The fact that Apple's market value passed Microsoft's a couple weeks ago is only the beginning. Blodget points out that a huge majority of Microsoft's profits come from Windows and Office, and both are being...

Farewell, Dear iPad: It's Not You, It's Me
 Farewell, Dear iPad: 
 It's Not You, It's Me 
in case you missed it
Jun 19, 2010 6:00 PM CDT

Farewell, Dear iPad: It's Not You, It's Me

Early adopter returns it because 'it's too good'

(Newser) - An unhappy early adopter of the iPad explains in the Harvard Business Review why he returned it to the store: "It's too good." Peter Bregman toted it everywhere and used it for email, to check news and traffic, and to watch the occasional episode of Weeds. He showed...

Apple Suspends iPhone 4 Pre-Orders After 600K Sold

Initial batch of June 24 pre-orders is gone, baby, gone

(Newser) - Considering the fact that people waited in line ...to snag a spot in another line...it shouldn't come as a major shock that Apple and AT&T both sold out of iPhone 4 pre-orders in one day; those lucky buyers will get to stand in a queue next Thursday to...

iPhone 4 Pre-Orders Overwhelm System

Customers line up for hours for Apple's new wonder

(Newser) - iPhone madness has arrived: stores were mobbed with customers who queued for hours to get a chance to pre-order the upcoming iPhone 4 today. For most, the day ended in chaos, says Gizmodo : AT&T apparently underestimated demand, and both their in-store and web-based pre-order interfaces were frozen much of...

'Suicide Factory' Workers Relocated to Avoid Raises

Only iPhone workers will get hefty wage hikes promised by Foxconn

(Newser) - Here's one way to avoid paying the hefty raises promised to 300,000 workers at the suicide-plagued Foxconn electronics plant in Shenzhen, China: move most of them to less expensive, remote plants in other parts of the country. Foxconn is apparently keeping the iPhone workers in Shenzhen, but moving Hewlett...

The Poor Tale of Apple's 3rd Founder
 The Poor Tale 
 of Apple's 3rd 
 Founder 
in case you missed it
Jun 12, 2010 1:29 PM CDT

The Poor Tale of Apple's 3rd Founder

Ron Wayne sold his 10% stake for just $800

(Newser) - You know Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak as Apple's founders, but you probably don't know the tale of third founder Ron Wayne. The Chicago Tribune presents the somewhat sad story of the then 42-year-old, who designed the original logo and wrote the manual for the Apple I computer—but got...

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