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VoIP Goes Mobile
Scott Goldman uses his mobile phone to shout friends and commerce contacts all by the world, from Britain to Australia. But the Southern California-based consultant doesn’t pay a dime in worldly tolls to his mobile phone carrier, AT&T, the biggest in the U.S. Instead, Goldman places the …
Psystar Stares Down Apple With Antitrust Suit
Psystar has turned up the heat in its legal battle with Apple. The small computer vendor first burst on the scene several months ago by audaciously offering for sale a line of Mac computer clones called “OpenComputer.” After a few weeks of silence, Apple unleashed its legal hounds on the sta…
UK Watchdog Nixes iPhone Ad by ‘All Parts of the Web’ Claim
Less than a week after a representative for Orange in Poland revealed that actors were paid to stand in line the night the iPhone launched there, another kerfuffle has arisen by Apple-related marketing, that date in the UK. The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority has pulled an iPhone commer…
Will Consumers Swallow a Greener Apple?
Greenpeace certainly ranks as the highest-profile environmental group to take on Apple, the hip kid on the computer block. The organization is not Apple’s only environmental adversary, though, and certainly not it’s only nag in a marketplace rife with green claims and green concerns. In fact…
Professor iPod
A Chapel Hill, N.C., middle school could become the first in the country to give an iPod to every teacher and student, an experiment that would challenge teachers and administrators to ensure the hand-held devices are used as learning tools, not toys. It’s still not clear how the iPod touche…
The iPhone’s Robust Body of Health Apps
Cell phones can’t actually get hot sufficient to pop popcorn, regardless of what you may have seen on YouTube. But some do have other unexpected abilities that just might help improve your quality of life. Dozens of new health and fitness Web applications are now available for use with the A…
What Should Apple Do With Its $20B Piggy Bank?
In order to realistically examine what Apple might do with its $20 billion, one has to look at Steve Jobs’ stated goals from the past plus the biggest threats to Apple in the future. Those two elements are good candidates for assessing how Apple might spend some of that money in the grandest…
30 Days and 30 Nights With the iPhone 3G
As I wrote in my July 15 review of the iPhone 3G, the latest version of Apple’s handheld computer, the best way to judge a device like that is to use it for a while. It’s been more than a month since I bought my iPhone 3G, switching from my trusty Samsung BlackJack. After more than 30 days o…
China Takes Its Hammer to iTunes
China has apparently blocked access to Apple iTunes, perhaps in response to the publicity surrounding a pro-Tibet album that was released about a month ago and just recently made its way onto the much-trafficked Web site. Produced by the Art of Peace Foundation, the album features songs from…
iPhonies: Fake Customers Line Up for Poland’s iPhone Debut
They are not iPhone enthusiasts. They just play them when paid by marketers. That’s the case in Poland, at least, where wireless carrier Telekomunickacja Polska has reportedly confirmed it paid actors to stand in line in order to create buzz and interest in Apple’s iPhone 3G mobile handset, …
