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AT&T purchases Wayport, giving iPhone users 20,000 US based hotspots

Monday, November 10, 2008

Fresh off the announcement that iPhone users will finally (and for real) have free Wi-Fi at Starbucks locations, AT&T has announced the purchase of Wayport. The purchase of the Wayport hotspot locations will bring the number of available hotspots up to around 20,000. The newly added Wayport locations include McDonald’s restaurants, Hertz, airports as well [...]

iTunes streaming app released by Simplify Media

Thursday, August 14, 2008

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iTunes streaming app released by Simplify Media

Simplify Media has just released an application titled, well, “Simplify Media.” This handy little app does just what it’s title suggests; it allows you to wirelessly connect (or via 2G/3G) to your computer’s iTunes library and stream songs straight to your iPhone/iPod Touch. What’s great about this application is that you don’t need to physically transfer [...]

Remote iTunes streaming to the iPhone/iPod Touch?

Thursday, August 7, 2008

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Remote iTunes streaming to the iPhone/iPod Touch?

Only hours ago, AppleInsider uncovered a patent filed by Apple Inc. that would allow iPhone/iTouch users to wirelessly stream music from their iTunes libraries to their iPhones/iPod Touchs. One of the major kinks that Apple encountered when developing this technology was the fact that the actual music files (.mp3, .mp4, etc) were way too large to [...]

AT&T: initial iPhone sales have doubled since last year

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

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Earlier today (July 23, 2008,) AT&T released a statement saying that during the first twelve days of being available, the iPhone 3G has sold double of what the original iPhone sold last year. More specifically, AT&T stated that iPhone profits rose 30 percent to $3.77 billion or 63 cents per share. “The Apple iPhone 3G is [...]

iPhone 2.0 firmware: future printer connectivity?

Sunday, July 20, 2008

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3rd party iPhone developers have recently “decrypted” the iPhone’s newly released 2.0 firmware, and have found what appears to be an empty directory simply named “Printers.” While this finding is by no means hard evidence, it does lead us to believe that Apple might just be cooking up something for us, in terms of wireless iPhone/iPod [...]

AT&T continues to tease iPhone users with the promise of free Wi-Fi

Friday, July 18, 2008

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AT&T had added what seemed to be the official details for their free Wi-Fi offering, and it seemed like the everyone on the web was all abuzz that they had finally made it live. According to the now-pulled website; "AT&T knows Wi-Fi is hot, and free Wi-Fi is even hotter, which is why we are proud to [...]

Rogers offering the iPhone 3G for $199, $299 with a 3-year agreement

Thursday, June 12, 2008

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While there are still plenty of details missing as to exactly how Rogers plans on handling the data plans with the iPhone, we have learned that they are planning to offer the phone for the same price at its US counterpart AT&T. The 8GB model will retail for $199 and the 16GB model for $299, [...]