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Can BlackBerry Addicts
Switch to iPhone?

Aug 26, 2009 11:16 AM CDT

Can BlackBerry Addicts Switch to iPhone?

(Newser) - For BlackBerry users, the lure of the iPhone can be hard to resist, despite the Apple device's lack of a keyboard and AT&T-only service policy. The Wall Street Journal followed five BlackBerry users who switched to the iPhone and charted the highs and lows: All of them said they...

Back at Work, Jobs Zeroes In on New Apple 'Tablet'

Aug 25, 2009 1:23 AM CDT

Back at Work, Jobs Zeroes In on New Apple 'Tablet'

Liver transplant has not diminished CEO's attention to detail

(Newser) - Just months after a liver transplant, Steve Jobs is back at Apple focusing his powerful micro-managerial style on development of a new tablet computer, the Wall Street Journal reports. Jobs’ close involvement with the tablet device signals that it will likely be a major product for Apple. During the development...

Nokia Challenges Apple
With 3G Netbook

Aug 24, 2009 2:23 PM CDT

Nokia Challenges Apple With 3G Netbook

(Newser) - Nokia is charging into the mobile computing market with its first netbook, PC World reports. The phone company’s Booklet 3G features 3G connectivity for Internet access and packs a healthy 12 hours of battery life. The tiny laptop—10 inches—runs Windows and has Nokia’s Ovi mobile apps...

iPhone 'Makes Life Miserable'

OPINION

Aug 24, 2009 10:55 AM CDT

iPhone 'Makes Life Miserable'

'Anti-iPhone movement' inspired by range of technical frustrations

(Newser) - We’re supposed to be in awe of the iPhone, the device that “was supposed to be our savior.” But after owning four of the "smug, narcissistic little iPhones," Amanda Fortini is fed up. Amid reports that iPhones are overheating and blowing up, “I at...

Apple Stores Defy Recession's Bite on Retailers

Aug 24, 2009 9:03 AM CDT

Apple Stores Defy Recession's Bite on Retailers

(Newser) - Recession or no recession, customers have kept lining up to buy iPhones and other Apple products, Bloomberg reports. Apple’s store revenues grew 2.5% over the first six months of 2009, even as retail sales overall fell 9.2%. In New York, where boutiques on Fifth Avenue are largely...

Steve Jobs Is a
Controlling Jerk

OPINION

Aug 10, 2009 2:06 PM CDT

Steve Jobs Is a Controlling Jerk

Mahalo's founder explains how he fell out of love with Apple

(Newser) - Jason Calacanis, a man who owns $20,000 worth of Apple products, has had it with Apple. In a lengthy blog post, the Mahalo founder says Apple’s become an anti-competitive bully. Steve Jobs, once “our LSD-taking, radical free-thinking and fight the power hero,” has become “the...

Jermaine's Tribute Song
to Hit iTunes

Aug 8, 2009 4:56 PM CDT

Jermaine's Tribute Song to Hit iTunes

'Smile' deal one of many planned by Jackson estate

(Newser) - The iTunes store has struck a deal to sell Jermaine Jackson’s rendition of “Smile,” which he performed at his brother’s June memorial service, the Los Angeles Times reports. A judge granted Michael Jackson’s estate permission to sign away "Smile," a Charlie Chaplin song...

$1.2B in Apple Tablet PCs Coming Next Year

Aug 7, 2009 8:25 PM CDT

$1.2B in Apple Tablet PCs Coming Next Year

(Newser) - The rumors are true: Apple is making a 10-inch-screen tablet PC to compete with mini-laptops in the $500-to-$700 range, InformationWeek reports. Apple has sent orders to an unnamed Chinese supplier and, one analyst says, will likely rake in $1.2 billion by selling 2 million tablets next year. Appealing...

Apple Pulls Sex Offender App

Aug 7, 2009 2:10 PM CDT

Apple Pulls Sex Offender App

App Store withdraws paid version of 'Offender Locator'

(Newser) - Apple's App Store will no longer sell “Offender Locator,” an iPhone add-on for tracking sex offenders, CNET reports. The company offered no explanation, and it pulled only the paid version of the hugely popular application—leaving “Offender Locator Lite” available. It's possible that the software ran afoul...

Apple Sought Gag Deal
Over Exploding iPod

Aug 4, 2009 4:39 AM CDT

Apple Sought Gag Deal Over Exploding iPod

(Newser) - Apple tried to silence an angry British father and daughter with a gag order after the girl's iPod Touch exploded and "went 10 feet in the air," said the dad. The company offered a full refund of $275 for the music player, but only if the two agreed...

Apple-Google Party Ended Before FCC Waltzed In

ANALYSIS

Aug 3, 2009 2:38 PM CDT

Apple-Google Party Ended Before FCC Waltzed In

Philosophical standoff led to Schmidt's ouster

(Newser) - Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s departure from the Apple board can be most directly linked to the rejection of the Voice app from the App Store, which has sparked a probe by the Federal Communications Commission, Erick Schonfeld writes for TechCrunch: “Google brought down the disapproving scrutiny of the...

Google CEO Leaves Apple Board

Aug 3, 2009 10:07 AM CDT

Google CEO Leaves Apple Board

Once-friendly companies on the brink of war

(Newser) - Google CEO Eric Schmidt has left Apple’s board of directors because the once-friendly companies are on a collision course, Apple announced today. “As Google enters more of Apple’s core business, with Android and now Chrome OS, Eric’s effectiveness as an Apple Board member will be significantly...

Apple Patches iPhone Security Concerns

Jul 31, 2009 5:04 PM CDT

Apple Patches iPhone Security Concerns

(Newser) - Apple today issued an update for its iPhone operating system, patching a flaw in its text-messaging operation that security experts say could have allowed serious hackers to “take over every iPhone in the world,” AllThingsD reports. “Contrary to what’s been reported,” a company spokesman said,...

Google Voice Worth More
Than Beloved iPhone

OPINION

Jul 31, 2009 2:10 PM CDT

Google Voice Worth More Than Beloved iPhone

(Newser) - Apple and AT&T rejected the Google Voice app for the iPhone, driving TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington to drop the mobile device entirely. Why are Apple and its carrier blocking an innovative program that has amazing call-forwarding features and transcribes voicemail into text? “Because they absolutely don’t want...

Why the Kindle Stinks

opinion

Jul 31, 2009 10:34 AM CDT

Why the Kindle Stinks

(Newser) - Nicholson Baker wanted to like the Kindle, honest. But when he unwrapped it and began to see what all the fuss was about, he "tussled with a sense of anti-climax," the prolific author writes in the New Yorker. Things never improved. He slams the e-reader for having a...

Top iPhone Annoyances
and How to Fix Them

OPINION

Jul 30, 2009 10:10 AM CDT

Top iPhone Annoyances and How to Fix Them

(Newser) - Even a gadget as good as the iPhone isn't without its annoyances, although luckily bigger geeks than you have cooked up workarounds for most of them, Jared Newman writes in PC World. Some major gripes:

AT&T: The carrier's stranglehold in the US is becoming even more irksome as foreign

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Rejection of
Google iPhone
App Sets Dumb
Precedent

OPINION

Jul 29, 2009 5:20 PM CDT

Rejection of Google iPhone App Sets Dumb Precedent

(Newser) - Apple has rejected Google’s application to distribute its Voice application through the App Store, and that shows that Apple is dead-set against innovation, Adam Pash writes on Lifehacker. The official line is that Google Voice “duplicates features already on the iPhone—namely the Phone and Messages app,”...

Apple Teams Up
With Record Labels
to Revive the Album

Jul 27, 2009 8:50 AM CDT

Apple Teams Up With Record Labels to Revive the Album

(Newser) - Apple has joined forces with four major record labels on a mission to get music buyers to start buying albums again instead of just single tracks, the Financial Times reports. The project—codenamed "Cocktail"—will bundle album downloads with lyrics sheets, sleeve notes, photos, and assorted interactive features...

Laptop Hunter Ads Tweaked
After Apple Gripe

Jul 24, 2009 5:55 AM CDT

Laptop Hunter Ads Tweaked After Apple Gripe

(Newser) - Microsoft has changed at least one of its highly successful "Laptop Hunter" ads after Apple called to complain about it, Advertising Age reports. In the original, a law student shopping for a laptop observes: "This Mac is $2,000, and that's before adding anything." Her mother adds,...

iPhone App Would Let
Users Text God

Jul 23, 2009 2:15 PM CDT

iPhone App Would Let Users Text God

Calif. teen, software developer team up for 'A Note to God'

(Newser) - The iPhone already handles many aspects of contemporary life—texts, emails, web surfing, phone calls—so why not prayer? That’s the idea behind “A Note to God,” an iPhone app being developed based on a write-in suggestion from a California teen, the Sacramento Bee reports. Allen Wright’...