Apple fans in the United States and seven other countries lined up Friday morning to be among the first to get their hands on the new iPhone 3GS, billed as the fastest, most feature-laden iPhone yet.
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iPhone’s New Operating System: A Snappy Upgrade
It’s a big week for Apple fans. On Friday, the third-generation iPhone — dubbed the 3G — hits stores
Will a new iPhone be announced Monday?
As Apple kicks off a much-anticipated developers’ conference Monday in San Francisco, California, much of the buzz is about the possibility of a new iPhone release. The tech company says it will discuss a new version of software for the revolutionary smartphone, which will let users copy and paste messages, search their iPhones, and write e-mails and text messages from a wide-screen view.
Palm’s Pre vs. Apple’s iPhone
A few weeks ago, Jon Rubinstein was booking up the side of Mount Tamalpais in Northern California while I wheezed like a steam engine in his wake. This was irritating on two levels: 1> I do this hike all the time, and 2> he had already gone for a long run earlier in the day. The executive chairman of Palm Inc., Rubinstein, a wiry 52, is a marathoner.
Fantasy features of an Apple tablet
Apple is rumored to be working on something bigger than an iPod Touch, but smaller than a MacBook. Past patent applications filed by the company and whispers from contract manufacturers point to a midsize gadget with a screen of 7 to 8 inches in the works, perhaps scheduled to debut early next year. It’s been variously described as a tablet-like device, a “media pad,” and an iPod Touch on steroids
Nokia’s Application Store Faces Apple Dominance
Nokia is the world’s largest handset company. It has been late to the high-end smart-phone market, but it has distribution leverage all over the world because of its 37% global market share
Greg Kot: How the Internet Changed Music
In 1998, Death Cab for Cutie was just another tenderhearted indie rock band signed to a minor record label, playing empty clubs for $50 a night. But after two years of soul-crushing obscurity, something strange happened: people started coming to their shows. The crowds were small but enthusiastic and each person told the same story: they’d found the band’s songs on the Internet
The iPhone’s Next Frontier: Porn
Apple may be golden because of the iPhone, but the soon-to-be-updated device is also increasingly the source of forbidden fruit. Steve Jobs’ company is keeping a civil, if embarrassed, silence on one of the potentially most lucrative and controversial uses of its handheld jewel: porn. The technological feats of the 3G iPhone are key to the coming pornucopia
Apple plots course for middle of mobile
Is the world finally ready for the mobile minitablet? It’s become quite clear over the last several months that Apple is ready to bridge the mobile computing gap, with plans to develop a device that fits somewhere in between the iPhone and the MacBook.
Actress Bea Arthur dead at 86
Bea Arthur, the actress best known for her roles as television’s "Maude" and the sardonic Dorothy on "The Golden Girls," has died of cancer, a family spokesman said Saturday. She was 86. Spokesman Dan Watt said that Arthur died Saturday morning at her home in Los Angeles, her family by her side.