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iPhone 3G Selling Twice as Fast as Original

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:47:05 EDT

AlleyInsider reports on AT&T's Q2 financial results. AT&T posted $30.9 billion in revenue, up 4.7% year-over-year.

In Apple related news, AT&T revealed that despite ongoing iPhone shortages, the iPhone 3G sales are nearly double tha...

Extended MobileMe Email Outage Due To Server Issue

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:45:26 EDT

Apple has posted a support document suggesting that the continuing MobileMe email outage affecting 1% of MobileMe users is due to a "serious" issue with one of their mail servers. Affected users have been unable to send or receive email since the tu...

New iPod Nanos to be Multicolored?

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:50:57 EDT

9to5mac claims to have heard from reliable sources that this years iPod nano revision will be individually multicolored. While the iPod nano currently comes in a number of solid colors, 9to5mac expects the new ones to contain multiple colors within ...

Apple Updates iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb and iLife

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:33:30 EDT

Apple has issued updates to their iLife suite of applications, including iPhoto and iMovie today. The updates are presently available through your Mac OS X Software Update:

iPhoto Update 7.1.4 (74 MB)
This update contains new ...

Apple to Drop Prices of Notebooks?

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:58:01 EDT

Investment bank Piper Jaffray issued a note today based on Apple's future outlook in 2008 and 2009. During their financial conference call, Apple told investors that they expect the company's gross margins will by down to 31.5% (from 34.8%) in Q4 20...

GPU Powered Macs and iPhones

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:32:21 EDT

Architosh points us to a Guardian.co.uk article from last week which details the upcoming trend of using GPUs (graphics processors) for day to day computing. As they point out, if you have a computer with either an ATI or nVidia graphics card, chan...

Apple Hints at a 'Product Transition' and a New Product Soon?

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:59:15 EDT

Apple's financial results conference call today was littered with references to future products coming from Apple. While some degree of optimism ("very excited about future") is the norm during these financial results calls, there was more discussio...

Apple Announces $1.07 Billion in Profit for Q3 2008

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:36:36 EDT

Apple announced their 3rd Quarter 2008 Financial Results today. Apple posted revenue of $7.46 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.07 billion (or $1.19 per diluted share). This compares favorably to revenue of $5.41 billion and net quarterly prof...

Some MobileMe Users Still Without Email

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:43:07 EDT

CNN Money reports that some MobileMe customers are still without email service.

The Cupertino, Calif., company has been migrating its .Mac pay email service to an upgraded version, called MobileMe. But in doing so, it has run into pro...

Apple's Earnings Results to Focus on Mac (and iPod)

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:51:32 EDT

Bloomberg reports that Apple's earnings report later today will focus on Mac and iPod sales which make up for 75% of the company's revenue. Despite the prominent iPhone 3G launch last week, those sales fall outside the reporting window for today's e...

Apple Sends Another MobileMe Apology E-mail and Extension

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:52:24 EDT

Amidst the rocky .Mac to MobileMe transition last week, Apple made one other mistake that it is now apologizing for. Apple had been preauthorizing charges up to 121 GBP to European customers who signed up for a free MobileMe trial. For debit accou...

iPhone Remote Acts as Wi-Fi Keyboard for Apple TV

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:16:38 EDT

As noted on DaringFireball.net, Apple's popular Remote iPhone application adds a useful and unpublicized feature to your Apple TV - a keyboard.

The Remote App [App Store] is a free download from the App Store and runs on both the iPhon...

Apple Prepping for Notebook Refresh?

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:43:51 EDT

Signs are starting to appear that Apple may be prepping for a revision of their Mac laptops in the near future. Following up a previous Commercial Times report that pointed to a Q3 (July-September) order for MacBook displays, the paper now reports t...

Apple Opening First Retail Store in China

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:35:52 EDT

from WSJ's China Journal
On July 19th, Apple is opening its first retail store in China in Beijing's Sanlitun entertainment district. The store opens at 10 a.m. local time.

"This is the first of many stores we will ope...

AT&T's Free Wi-Fi Hotspot Access for iPhones Finally Announced? [No]

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:44:08 EDT

iPhoneAlley notes that AT&T has once again posted information on their website indicating that all iPhone customers have free access to their more than 17,000 Wi-Fi hotspots access across the U.S., including Starbucks locations:

AT&T ...

Apple's Q3 2008 Financial Results on July 21st

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:09:58 EDT

Apple will be webcasting their 3rd Quarter 2008 Financial Results on July 21, 2008. The 3rd fiscal quarter encompasses sales between April 1, 2008 and June 30, 2008. As such, results from the iPhone 3G and App Store sales will not be included in th...

Apple's U.S. Market Share Continues to Grow

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:43:56 EDT

A pair of quarterly research reports released today reveal that Apple is continuing to experience growing U.S. market share among PC shipments.

Gartner's report pegs Apple's share of U.S. PC shipments for the second quarter of 2008 at ...

Intel to Deliver Quad-Core Mobile Processors Next Month

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:40:08 EDT

Intel announced that it would be releasing its first quad-core processor for laptops next month.

"We're bringing quad-core to mobile in August," said Sujan Kamran, regional marketing manager for client platforms at Intel in Singapore....

Apple Sends Apology Letter, 30-Day Extension to MobileMe Customers

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:57:19 EDT

Today, Apple sent out an email to MobileMe customers apologizing for the rocky transition from .Mac to MobileMe.

We have recently completed the transition from .Mac to MobileMe. Unfortunately, it was a lot rockier than we had hoped.

iPhone 3G Remains Hard to Find

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:45:22 EDT

Line at Apple Store Chicago, IL today by wowk1234
Fortune reports that the iPhone 3G is still a scarce item to find. Lines continue to form at many stores, and as of this morning, 21 states were sold out of the iPhone.