Nov 23

iPhone Too Expensive For UK BuyersBritains looking to purchase a new cell phone this winter may be wanting for something other than an Apple iPhone.  A polling company from the UK, GfK NOP, asked 500 people around the island nation about the iPhone cell phone.

Continue reading British iPhone Poll Confirms Cell Phone Music Player Too Expensive

Nov 22

iPhone And MacBook Third Quarter Sales NumbersApple’s sales of hardware products, especially the iPhone, MacBook’s, and MacBook Pro’s have been particularly strong in the third quarter.  There have been 1.12 million iPhone shipped in the US.  Global sales predictions say that Apple will see an increase of one-percent in world wide laptop market share.

Continue reading iPhone Cell Phone And MacBook Laptop Sales Third Quarter Sales

Nov 21

T-Mobile Germany Offers Unlocked iPhoneT-Mobile Germany has issued a press release about how Vodafone wants to end the exclusive sales contract for the iPhone in that country.  T-Mobile claims that they will appeal the ruling so that they can continue to sell the iPhone exclusively.  While selling a locked iPhone, T-Mobile also claims to offer preferential data plan rates and access to T-Mobile run hotspots.

Continue reading T-Mobile Germany Offers $1,500 Unlocked or $600 Contracted iPhone's

Nov 20

Vodafone 3G iPhone Europe RumorVodafone is working very hard right now by suing T-Mobile in Germany for exclusivity of the yet un-announced 3G Apple iPhone.  The rumors are flying about when the 3G iPhone is going to be released.  An Italian site More.IT claims to have information from high-level sources.

Continue reading Vodafone To Have Exclusive Rights To 3G iPhone In Europe Q1 Of 2008

Nov 19

Apple Secretly Collecting IMEI DataImagine a company tracking the programs on a cell phone, how they are used, what data is changed in a program and then reports all of that back to head quarters.  This is happening right now on iPhone’s and apparently iPod Touch’s worldwide.  Scans of the code for the weather and finance widgets on the iPhone and iPod Touch reveal the hidden tracking code.  This code sends the actual IMEI number of the iPhone or iPod Touch back to Apple’s servers.  The IMEI number is what identifies itself to cellular phone companies.  What Apple is doing with this information is equally clouded in secrecy.

Continue reading Apple Secretly Tracking IMEI, Collecting Personal iPhone Data & Usage

Nov 18

AT&T iPhone Without Data Plan

AT&T is responding to potential and current iPhone customers.  New details are emerging about the data side to the iPhone plan.  AT&T is now offering an EDGE data-less iPhone plan.  It’s in an effort to win over new customers for this holiday buying season.  It is also an option for current customers to not jump cell phone carriers.

Continue reading iPhone AT&T Data Plan Is Now Optional For Users That Utilize Wi-Fi

Nov 17

1.1.2 Jailbreak With Activation And PowerPC SupportA new iPhone firmware 1.1.2 Jailbreak process has been released.  What’s interesting with this new method is that it includes activation.  Activating an iPhone is necessary to use the cell phone part of the iPhone without the iTunes AT&T account activation.

Continue reading iPhone 1.1.2 Jailbreak Includes Activation Process & PowerPC Support

Nov 16

Apple’s Final Cut Express 4Apple’s Final Cut Pro 4 has now been released.  It is a paid software upgrade for the consumer level video editing suite.  It was one of two software suites from Apple that was yet to be a paid for upgrade in recent days.  Aperture was updated for Leopard at version 1.5.6, but a larger pay upgrade has not been released.

Continue reading Final Cut Express 4 Is Released By Apple, Consumer Video Software

Nov 15

Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.1 Software Update ReleasedApple has released a timely update to its newest Mac OS X operating system, Leopard.  The new version that is available through software update and Apple’s website is at 10.5.1.  It is on average a 39 MB download.  If users were to download the update from Apple’s website it would be around 110 MB.  There are quite a few changes in this update, which most users have been waiting for to install it in the first place.

Continue reading Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.1 Software Update Released For Intel & PPC Macs

Nov 14

Apple Pro Apps Updated For Final Cut Studio 2Final Cut Studio 2, Apple’s Pro software applications have all been updated to fix some issues and finally bring Mac OS X Leopard compatibility.  The version numbers for the Apple software follows.

Continue reading Apple Updates Pro Apps, iPhoto 7.1.1 And Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11