Apple (AAPL) unveiled a slew of new features -- more than 100 in all -- in the third major revision of the iPhone's basic operating system. Among the enhancements demonstrated at a special media event at the company's Cupertino headquarters on Tuesday were many of the functions users had been clamoring for -- in some cases for nearly two years. Among the highlights:
Cut, copy and paste across applications
So-called "push notification" MORE
Apple (AAPL) unveiled a slew of new features -- more than 100 in all -- in the third major revision of the iPhone's basic operating system. Among the enhancements demonstrated at a special media event at the company's Cupertino headquarters on Tuesday were many of the functions users had been clamoring for -- in some cases for nearly two years. Among the highlights:
Cut, copy and paste across applications
So-called "push notification" MORE
Apple's (AAPL) iPhone 3.0 event is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. PT/ 1 p.m. ET. Refresh this page for updates.
Eager members of the press are filing in. The room is mostly full now. We've been asked to silence our phones.
The lights have dimmed. Greg Joswiak, head of iPhone product marketing, has taken the stage. He says we're getting a preview of iPhone OS 3.0. He's going to take MORE
Jon Fortt - Mar 17, 2009 10:04 AM ET
Cisco CEO John Chambers and Intel CEO Paul Otellini (center) are flanked by other Cisco executives as they explain how the two companies will work together on servers. Photo: Cisco
Cisco's new servers use more memory and faster I/O connections than mainstream competitors, and they come loaded with management software. Photo: Cisco
John Chambers is known for delivering Cisco's sales pitch like a revival preacher, complete with a country twang – and MORE
Jon Fortt - Mar 17, 2009 9:26 AM ET
UPDATE: To see what will and won't be in the new iPhone OS when it's released this summer, you can read our summary here or follow our link to the Quicktime video here.
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The first thing to remember about Apple's (AAPL) iPhone 3.0 special event, announced last Thursday and scheduled for Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m PT), is that it has been billed as "an advance MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 17, 2009 7:12 AM ET
The Apple (AAPL) numbers released by the NPD Group Monday were even worse than those predicted by Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster last week, yet he sees them as "a neutral or a slight positive" for the stock, given the uncertainties surrounding the entire computer industry this quarter.
NPD reported Mac and iPods sales both down 16% year to year in February, according to a report issued Monday to Piper Jaffray clients.
Analysts MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 16, 2009 2:58 PM ET
Sunday's headline out of the South by Southwest Interactive 2009 conference now underway in Austin, Texas, is Kevin ("Digg") Rose's "confirmation" that Apple (AAPL) will finally introduce a copy-and-paste function in iPhone 3.0, the update to the device's basic operating system scheduled to be unveiled at a special event this Tuesday, March 17.
Rose made the announcement during a raucous on-site taping of Diggnation, a weekly podcast he hosts with Alex Albrecht. MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 15, 2009 6:59 PM ET
By all reports, one of the most useful panels so far at this year's South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) conference in Austin, Texas, was Saturday's iPhone: The New Gaming Platform, where some of the device's most successful game developers shared secrets of their success.
The star of the panel, judging by the detailed notes filed by TUAW's Victor Agreda, Jr., was Austin's own Brian Greenstone, whose Pangea Software has racked up MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 15, 2009 1:50 PM ET
Jon Fortt talks to Kenworth about a practical use for cloud computing.
Jon Fortt - Mar 13, 2009 4:00 PM ET
The highlight of Thursday night's appearance of CNBC's Mad Money host Jim Cramer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart -- which both NBC and Comedy Central had done their best to promote as the grudge match of the century -- turned out to be a two-year old TheStreet.com video of Cramer being interviewed about about how easy it is to manipulate Apple's (AAPL) stock price.
The video is famous among MORE
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