Over Christmas there was some intense negotiations between the various record companies and Apple over the removal of Digital Rights Management and Variable Pricing for music. The primary issue was that Apple wanted to get music distribution onto the iPhone because they felt that impulse buying on the iPhone was an important component to growth. [...]

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Over at Gigaom, they are predicting a wide spread slow down of Wireless Data Services WDS:
Last week, UBS Research in a research note pointed out that AT&T had 1.25 million 3G laptop subscribers as of the end of the fourth quarter of 2008. Net card additions had fallen 121,000 from the 186,000 additions in the [...]

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Analyst firm Canalys has released the results of it’s Consumer Mobility Analysis Report and it is very good news for Apple, good news for RIM and Microsoft and bad news for Nokia:
The success of Apple and RIM, as well as fifth-placed HTC with its Windows Mobile devices, has eaten into Nokia’s share of [...]

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Windows Mobile was originally launched as Pocket PC in April 2000. It was born in an age when Microsoft was busy trying to tie everything to the Windows Desktop and cast a long shadow over every part of the IT industry. It was not long after that that the Windows wheels fell [...]

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The upgrades to 2.0 for the iPhone and iPod Touch has arrived. If any one has tried to install upgrades and new applications in other smartphones then they will appreciate just how good iTunes + iPhone/iPod integration is.
I upgraded my iPod touch to 2.0 and added in Ebay app, AOL Radio (with NPR goodness on [...]

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[Uploaded on July 10, 2008 by SashaNZ]
IPhone 3G Mania struck New Zealand at 12am (NZ Time) this morning as red beanie (touke) wearing yanks desend on Auckland’s Vodaphone  shop on Queen St.Both ifixit.com and Engadget.com flew to New Zealand to get their mitts on lamburgers and Apple’s iPhone.

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[Uploaded on August 31, 2007 by nobihaya]
The Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen spilled the beans over progress made on getting Flash working on the iphone yesterday:
MACMILLAN: And then just to follow-up was on the Apple iPhone 3G — any update on Flash support within that device? Thanks.

NARAYEN: With respect to the iPhone, we are working on [...]

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Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.
2007 will go down in history as the turning point where smartphones became mobile [...]

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The big numbers story this January is that General Motors has held on to it’s spot as number one car manufacturer in the US over Toyota who has beaten Ford for the first time:
Toyota sold 48,226 more cars and trucks than Ford, according to sales figures released today. Toyota’s sales were up 3 percent for [...]

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iPhones being delivered from an undisclosed location…..
…waiting the freight at each location on Sunday were armed personnel, who were reportedly hired by Apple through its courier’s ground handling agent and then cleared by the Transportation Security Administration. Armed guards are extremely unusual for freight coming out of the Asian sector, those familiar with the matter [...]

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