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Apple Announces Sept 9 “EVENT”

Apple has notified the media of Apple event for the Tuesday, the 9th of this month is on. It’s fairly certain they will be unveiling new iPods (what would Autumn be without Falling iPods?), but it’s not certain whether any real goodies will be forthcoming. Could it be that the rather homely rumored Nano that [...]

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Microsoft to take on Mobile Me

A recent job posting (since expired - or perhaps filled?) for a Project Manager suggests that Microsoft is looking to produce something similar to Apple’s MobileMe for its Windows Mobile platform. The news comes hot on the heels of Google’s own Android Market announcement.  The ad calls the new platform “Skymarket,” and describes it as a “marketplace [...]

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Free Classical Guitar Music for Your iPhone

Apple has made available a series of eight classical guitar works performed by Tully Cathey at the University of Utah. Best of all, they re absolutely free. Three of the works are also written by Cathey (entitled - appropriately enough, “Three pieces for Guitar.” Also included are works by Sir Lennox Berkeley, Frederico Morena Torobba, [...]

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iTunes Interactive Albums Coming?

Apple is signaling a jump into interactive albums from iTunes. The first artist in the cue is Snow Patrol, set to release their latest studio album next month. According to a Polydor production manager, the downloadable, “interactive” application will offer additional content such as artwork, behind-the-scenes images, and lyrics for iPhone and iPod touch owners — “A [...]

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Jobs: “I’m not Dead Yet”

OK, first, that’s not an actual quote. But bloggers who use WordPress for writing (like the folks at iPhonefreak), should know better than to hit “publish” when what they are working on is not ready for prime time. And if what you are working on is an obituary for Steve Jobs, premature posting can by particularly [...]

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AT&T Offers International Plans for iPhone

AT&T’s has announced a pair of international data packages geared specifically toward the iPhone and iPhone 3G. The plans come too late to help me with my trip to England, but to be honest, they wouldn’t have helped anyway since they cost more than my entire monthly service anyway. But if you want to do International [...]

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EZ fix for iPhone Security Flaw

Reuters reports a security flaw in the iPhone allows unauthorized users to gain easy access to private contacts and e-mails even when the device is locked.  The Gizmodo blog site and an online forum run by the Mac Rumors site showed that it took only three taps to gain access to lockediPhones, which run the latest 2.02 iPhone software. The vulnerability [...]

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Third Party iPhone Gaming Control Pad?

http://www.icontrolpad.com/ issued pictures on its web site of a new game controller for the iPhone. iControlPad has made public plans to build a gaming control pad for the iPhone and iPod Touch to sell for under $30. The latest prototype casing is shown here. It may not look like much now, but the makers say the [...]

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Will the iPhone Show its Colors?

It can be argued that Apple DID come up with an additional color for the iPhone when it released a white version. I’d be more inclined to argue that white isn’t really a color. In fact, it’s the ABSENCE of color. And to add insult to injury, the new “color” is just the back of [...]

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Those Nike App Shots Likely Fakes

The Nike + App screen shots may be fakes. We believed they might be real and posted them as shown on a French iPhone site. We did say it was a rumor and we did use a question mark in the headline. Still, we hate to be post something that is off base (unless of course [...]

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