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Need a summer Job? AT&T needs help for the new iPhone launch

The 3G iPhone evidence keeps piling up.  A while back, there was an internal AT&T memo leaked that indicated that AT&T employees could not schedule vacation time between June 15th and July 12th due to an "exciting Summer Promotional Launch."  Now, it seems they?re going one step further and hiring additional, temporary staff starting on [...]

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Will you pay extra for over-the-air ringtone downloads?

According to some (unnamed) music label execs, they?ve been in talks with Apple for a few weeks regarding an expansion of Apple?s catalog of available ringtones, as well as the possibility of offering ringback tones. This seems pretty standard and is only to be expected. The point of contention seems to lie with [...]

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iPhone DevCamp 2 this August

The iPhone DevCamp is back and with the official SDK now out, it should be even bigger than last year. The three day gathering is being held from August 1-3 at Adobe Systems in San Francisco and promises to be an intensive meeting of the minds for iPhone Developers, both web-based and native. Attendees are [...]

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iPhoneFreak now listed on Alltop!

For your perusing pleasure, if you happen to use mac.Alltop.com to keep up with your Apple news, you can now find us listed there with all your other favorites, in one easy-to-use listing of all the Apple news worth reading, updated constantly. If you haven?t been before, be sure to check it out. It?s the [...]

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AT&T to iPhone users: No WiFi for you!

There’s been a bit of a hubbub lately concerning free AT&T Hotspot access for iPhone customers. Though nothing had been announced, an iPhone user discovered that, when he launched Safari on the iPhone at an AT&T Hotspot, he was given a login screen where he could put in his iPhone number and AT&T account [...]

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iPhone Pandemic: spreading around the world at an alarming rate!

France?s iPhone carrier, Orange, announced today that they would be the carrier for the iPhone in a gaggle of European, Middle-Eastern and African countries later this year.  This adds Austria, Belgium, Egypt, Jordan, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland, the Dominican Republic, and at least a few unnamed African countries to the recently announced Vodafone expansion into [...]

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3G coming soon: More than just speculation

Amid rampant speculation over when the much awaited 3G iPhone will see the light of day, there has finally been a voice brave enough (or not-familiar-with-Steve enough) to make a declarative statement… and it?s from someone who would be almost certain to know for a fact. Matthew Key, the Chairman and CEO of Telef?nica Europe–the [...]

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Looks like 10 Million was a bit of an understatement

In the same speech in which he introduced the world to the iPhone, Steve Jobs made the bold statement that he planned on selling 10 Million units in 2008 to achieve a 1% global market share.  At the time, even Mac-Acolytes like MacWorld magazine thought the goal was too lofty.  It seemed as if Steve [...]

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