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NEWS ABOUT: iPhone

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Curve Grabs
Top Spot as Best-Selling Smartphone

BlackBerry zooms past iPhone with giveaways

May 5, 09 1:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Blackberry Curve has overtaken the iPhone to become America's best-selling smartphone, Ars Technica reports. First-quarter figures from research firm NPD reveal that the iPhone fell into second place for the first time since the iPhone 3G was launched last summer, according to first-quarter figures from research firm NRD. BlackBerry... More »

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Verizon • iPhone • Research In Motion • Apple • BlackBerry • smartphones • Curve 8900 • BlackBerry Curve

(Newser) - Microsoft and Verizon are in talks to launch a smartphone on the carrier’s network early next year, the Wall Street Journal reports. The phone would likely run on a souped-up version of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system, and have access to Windows Marketplace, its version of Apple’s... More »

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Microsoft • wireless • Verizon • iPhone • Apple • smartphones • Windows Mobile • Windows Marketplace • competitor • Droid phones • Verizon Droid price • Verizon Droid review

 Verizon May Get 
 iPhone in 2010 

Deal could come through when AT&T's exclusive rights expire next year

Apr 27, 09 12:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Apple is in talks about developing an iPhone for Verizon’s wireless network—with possible deployment next year, USA Today reports. Currently, the iPhone is only available on AT&T’s GSM network, which is incompatible with Verizon’s CDMA operation. AT&T has exclusive US rights to the... More »

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Verizon • iPhone • Apple • smartphones • AT&T • mobile devices • iPhone 3G • GSM • CDMA

Apple Yanks 'Baby Shaker' iPhone App

Game to shut baby up met stunned outcry from children's groups

Apr 23, 09 4:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - An iPhone application urging users to shake a virtual baby to death to shut it up has been pulled after an unsurprising outcry from child welfare groups, reports the San Jose Mercury News reports. A representative for Apple—which is nearing its billionth app download—refused to comment on how... More »

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iPhone • Apple • child abuse • game • iPhone applications

(Newser) - Steve Jobs may be on the sidelines—at least in theory—but Apple is showing no signs of a letdown. The company's quarterly profit surged 15% on strong sales of iPhones and iPods, the Wall Street Journal reports. Jobs, reportedly still very much calling the shots during his medical leave,... More »

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Steve Jobs • iPhone • Apple • profits • corporate earnings

 iPhone Tilts Gaming Industry 


Apr 13, 09 9:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - The videogame industry, recently geared toward churning out bigger and bigger blockbusters, is shrinking its ambitions down to iPhone size, the Los Angeles Times reports. Thanks to Apple’s App Store, the iPhone and iPod Touch have become surprisingly popular gaming devices—and developers have taken notice. Electronic Arts, for... More »

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iPhone • Nintendo • Apple • iPod Touch • Electronic Arts • video games • App Store • Nintendo DSi

ANALYSIS

 Microsoft 
 to Apple: 
 Bring It On 


Apr 11, 09 9:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - With its snazzy ads and iPhone groupies, Apple has been winning the Mac vs. PC wars, but Microsoft is ready to strike back, Peter Burrows writes in BusinessWeek. Positioning itself as a cheaper alternative, the company has launched its own slate of “uncharacteristically cool” TV ads and is offering... More »

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Microsoft • iPhone • Apple • Linux • tv ads • consumers

Insiders: Jobs Still Steering Apple From Home

Sick CEO still handling firms products, strategies

Apr 11, 09 6:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Steve Jobs is keeping a firm grip on the goings-on at Apple despite being on medical leave, sources tell the Wall Street Journal. The chief executive's stand-in, Tim Cook, is handling the day-to-day running of the firm, but Jobs has been working on strategies and products from home, especially the... More »

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Steve Jobs • iPhone • CEO • Apple • Tim Cook

(Newser) - Apple has sold 928 million programs to mobile users and plans to celebrate its billionth App Store download by awarding a random customer a huge haul of merchandise, CNET reports. The lucky customer will walk away with a MacBook Pro, a 32GB iPod Touch, and a $10,000 iTunes gift... More »

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iPhone • iTunes • Facebook • Apple • digital downloads • iTunes Store • iPod Touch • software applications • App Store • MacBook Pro • Crash Bandicoot

 Stanford Offers 
 Free iPhone App 
 Developer Course 

iTunes U course will teach online students how to build applications

Apr 3, 09 4:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Stanford University is offering free online lessons to would-be iPhone application developers, reports Ars Technica. The university's computer science department is making materials from its 10-week iPhone Application Programming course available for download from iTunes starting this week, including video lectures by Apple engineers. The materials will be the same... More »

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(Newser) - Pirates have struck the iPhone app store and cracked roughly one in five paid applications for online distribution, Wired reports. At least 5,000 apps are circulating on the Internet, says one analytics company, which found dozens of apps that are downloaded only once for every 100 cracked copies. "... More »

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Skype Expands
to iPhone, iPod
Tomorrow

Internet phone
service plans May
Blackberry launch

Mar 30, 09 2:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Skype is launching service for the iPhone tomorrow, expanding its popular internet phone operation from computers to the lucrative mobile market. Users of iPhones as well as iPod Touches—which have wifi but no cell connection—will be able to make free calls to fellow Skype users and pay for... More »

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Skype Could Hit iPhone
as Soon as Next Week

Voice-over-IP firm may announce its client at CTIA Wireless

Mar 27, 09 12:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Skype is putting the finishing touches on a version of its VoIP client for the iPhone, and may debut it as soon as an industry conference next week, GigaOm reports. Skype is looking to the mobile market to keep growing as its PC usage starts to plateau. Skype already offers... More »

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iPhone • software • Skype • Voice over IP • telephone • iPhone applications • mobile phones

Tech Review

Apps Your iPhone Must Have

Tech guru Mossberg lists programs that justify gizmo's price tag

Mar 26, 09 9:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - The iPhone App Store has been a slam dunk as far as Walter Mossberg is concerned. “We’ve seen this before, on a smaller scale,” he writes in the Wall Street Journal. “But these new apps can be far more sophisticated, and they are appearing at a... More »

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iPhone App Lets
Users 'Fly' Like Sully

Flight simulator includes actual air traffic communication from US Airways 1549

Mar 24, 09 1:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new iPhone app gives users the opportunity to compare their flying skills to those of Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, reports the Unofficial Apple Weblog. The "Sully's Flight" simulator application re-creates the conditions experienced by Flight 1549 before the hero pilot safely brought it down in the Hudson River.... More »

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(AP) - Apple is updating its software for iPhones so that users can cut, copy, and paste text—a basic computing feature missing from the gadget. The company—which unveiled 100 new features that will be available in the summer—also pledged to change the way third-party software programmers can build and... More »

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iPhone • Apple • iPhone applications

 New iPhone OS 
 Adds Copy & Paste 

Will unite Gmail, Facebook contacts in single list

Mar 16, 09 11:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Apple is set to announce the latest iPhone operating system tomorrow, which will likely include a copy-and-paste feature, the Daily Telegraph reports. Users will be able to double-tap to highlight words, then “pinch” text to copy, reports say. The phone is also expected to unite contacts from sources like... More »

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iPhone • Apple • operating system

iPhones Turn Into Kindles, With Free App

Amazon hopes to corner iPhone's
eBook market

Mar 4, 09 7:46 AM CST
(Newser) - Amazon’s widely praised digital book reader is getting a second home on the iPhone, reports the Washington Post. Amazon is launching a free Kindle app today that has most of the Kindle functions. Though it won't have the Kindle’s ink-and-paper-like screen, the iPhone version will allow users to... More »

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iPhone • Apple • Kindle • iPhone applications • Amazon.com • ebooks

 'Twitter Rescue' Fails 
 Snowboarding 
 Music Man 

Twitter leads to two men missing in Alps whiteout, one dead

Mar 4, 09 3:57 AM CST
(Newser) - The first-ever "Twitter rescue" saved the life of a snowboarder in the Swiss Alps, but failed a 29-year-old British music entrepreneur whose body was found at the foot of a 66-foot cliff, reports the Daily Telegraph. Cheery "tweets" from a female companion noting "am having the best... More »

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cell phones • iPhone • Switzerland • GPS • snowboarding • Alps • Twitter • tweet • Rob Williams

 Melinda Keen on iPhone; 
 Bill Says No 

Apple's wares illegal in Gates household

Mar 3, 09 2:07 PM CST
(Newser) - Apple products are banned in the Gates home, the New York Post reports—but Melinda “wouldn’t mind” picking up an iPhone, she told Vogue. There isn’t much “on the banned list in our household. But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our... More »

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Microsoft • Bill Gates • iPhone • Apple • iPod • consumer electronics • gadget • Melinda Gates

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