As announced last month, tomorrow marks the first opportunity for existing Verizon Wireless customers to pre-order the iPhone 4. The phone, which sees public release on February 10th, will be available in limited quantities for pre-order from both Apple and Verizon beginning Thursday. As both companies anticipate an incredibly high volume of pre-orders, iPhones are […]
This morning, The New York Times reported that Apple had rejected Sony’s ‘Reader’ app from the App Store. The app was allegedly denied on the grounds that it enabled users to purchase content from sources outside of the App Store. As this is the primary method of content delivery found in other 3rd party eReader […]
This time last week, we polled our readers on whether they were planning to get a Verizon iPhone 4. The poll received a total of 816 responses, and the results were quite surprising. Over a quarter of all voters, 26.1%, replied that they plan to continue service with AT&T. Only 7.35% of voters replied that […]
Rumors have circulated for years that Apple will turn the iPhone into a mobile payment device using RFID (Radio-frequency identification) technology. RFID-based payment services have already been used by the E-ZPass highway toll system and the ExxonMobil SpeedPass, but these require a dedicated device. This patent, filed in December of 2007 by Apple, outlines how […]
According to The Wall Street Journal, Verizon COO Lowell McAdam today confirmed an unlimited $30 data plan for the iPhone 4. McAdam shared this news ahead of schedule, and outside of the company’s planned meeting with investors. Though additional plan component pricing remains a mystery, today’s announcement will undoubtably give Verizon an edge–at least with […]
Today marks the 27th Birthday of the iconic beige box which ultimately gave way to the iMac I’m typing this post on. On January 24th, 1984, Steve Jobs introduced the Macintosh to the world. The first machine to run Mac OS (then System 1.0), the Macintosh revolutionized the personal computer industry, and changed the face […]
This past weekend, Apple announced that the 10 billionth app had been downloaded from its App Store. As a way of expressing its thanks and marking the occasion, the company held a contest, giving away a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card to whomever downloaded the milestone app. Gail Davis of Orpington, Kent, UK, was the lucky […]
As of this morning, the App Store is just 50,000,000 shy of its ten billionth download, and that folks, is a lot of Angry Birds. If a cool fifty mil seems like a large number of remaining downloads, get this: according to Apple, 350 apps are being downloaded every second! Considering the store is just […]
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Apple released their financial results for the holiday quarter (Oct-Dec), and once again, they posted both record revenues and record profits. The company had $26.74 billion of revenue for the three months, which is over $11 billion more sales than the same period last year. Their profits were also up as Apple made $6 billion […]
