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When Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL ) released the iPhone 3G back in July, little did it know (most likely) that the device would have issues worldwide connecting to 3G networks, causing consumer frustration on a level we’ve rarely seen with any Apple product. Well, some consumers have apparently given up and they’re moving back to the older, slower, original iPhone , which is causing a cottage industry to spring up around the older device.
NextWorth.com is charging $200 to $300 for a used iPhone (the non-3G kind), which is more than the price of the newer, sleeker and faster iPhone 3G. Why? There’s demand — and lots of it. Some customers don’t want to be shackled to AT&T, Inc. (NYSE: T ), the exclusive carrier for the iPhone and iPhone 3G in the U.S., as the original iPhone can be unlocked very easily using software tools...
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IBM seeks information directly from Apple’s top line executives regarding the ongoing Papermaster lawsuit, which IBM hopes to win in order to prevent Papermaster from joining Apple Inc.
The ongoing saga has grown tiresome in the last few weeks. In a nutshell, Apple has seemingly poached Mark Papermaster, a skilled chip design guru, from IBM. Big blue was not too fond of this, so they filed a lawsuit hoping to prevent Papermaster from joining Apple Inc.
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Tue, Dec 2, 2008 Nokia Corp., the world’s largest maker of cell phones, is launching a new phone next year that is designed to compete with Apple Inc.’s iPhone and Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerrys at the high end of the market.... more
ComScore has recently come out with a report detailing the demographics of iPhone users, and the results are surprising. While the iPhone might stereotypically be thought of as the province of tech geeks with money to burn, ComScore’s findings indicate that the real driver behind the iPhones tremendous growth has come from users who earn less than the median household income.
From June to August 2008, the growth rate of the iPhone for individuals who earn over $100,000 was 16%.Â... more
When Apple didn’t budge on prices for its new MacBooks a few weeks ago, I thought it was typical hubris. But it’s become clear to me that there was a bigger strategy at play.
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Homemade IPhone Robot Is More Than Meets the Eye PC World - 1 hour ago Those of you who've read my posts here know that I'm an avid iPhone fan--and those of you who followed my long and storied career over at Macworld's ... Does Apple’s War on Jailbreaking Have a New Front? CNET News all 2 news articles ... more
Patches are all in a day’s work for Microsoft and Apple engineers. Indeed, the second Tuesday of every month has become known in tech circles as “Patch Tuesday.” That’s when Microsoft issues its latest updates for its operating systems and applications. Apple disseminates patches on a less-predictable schedule. Does Apple need to adopt a more regular routine as its platform becomes more popular among consumers, or is Patch Tuesday more about enterprise users? Or is a... more
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Auxbuss sends us to New Scientist for news sure to perplex and confound creationists: scientists have watched a new, complex evolutionary trait develop in the lab. “A major evolutionary innovation has unfurled right in front of researchers’ eyes. It’s the first time evolution has been caught in the act of making such a rare and complex new trait. And because the species in question is a bacterium, scientists have been able to replay history to show how this evolutionary novelt... more
fondacio writes “In a speech that is being reported as taking a swipe at Microsoft, EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes has called for businesses and governments to use software based on open standards. While not mentioning Microsoft by name, Ms. Kroes referred to the fact that ‘[t]he [European] Commission has never before had to issue two periodic penalty payments in a competition case’ until this befell Microsoft. The things she told a conference in Brussels will not co... more
circletimessquare writes “Dennis Overbye at the New York Times has some ruminations on some of the historical totems of science going up for auction at Christie’s next week. There is the 1543 copy of ‘De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium’ by Copernicus, which you can have for $900,000 to $1.2 million. If you’ve some cash left over, maybe you can pick up an original work by Galileo, Darwin, Descartes, Newton, Freud, Kepler, Tycho Brahe, or Malthus. And then thereR... more
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