UPDATE: Did your wish come true? See our report on iPhone 3.0 special event here or follow our link to the video here.
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No sooner had Apple (AAPL) e-mailed invitations to an iPhone 3.0 "sneak peak" on March 17 than Apple watchers -- and iPhone owners -- began speculating about what that new operating system might do for them.
Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster expects "significant new features," including, perhaps, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 12, 2009 2:37 PM ET
Apple's (AAPL) iPhone was the fastest-growing smartphone of 2008, despite end-of-year sales that failed to maintain the blistering pace set in July with the launch of the iPhone 3G, Gartner researchers reported Wednesday.
"Apple's initial sell-through dropped significantly as sales fell during the fourth quarter," Gartner said. "Nevertheless, Apple maintained its third position in the global rankings."
Nokia (NOK) still dominates the worldwide smartphone market with a 43.7% share, but overall it MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 12, 2009 10:18 AM ET
Here's one group you won't hear complaining too bitterly about government spending: Tech executives.
They may be deficit hawks when it comes to their own balance sheets, but leaders of the largest technology companies these days are positioning global stimulus packages - including the Obama administration's $787 billion stimulus plan - as a necessary evil. And while they're careful to avoid promoting any particular political ideology, there's a common refrain among MORE
Jon Fortt - Mar 11, 2009 2:53 PM ET
Could Apple's (AAPL) new product marketing machinery get any more efficient?
Gone are those high production value Macworld keynotes starring Steve Jobs (he last appeared in 2008). Gone too, apparently, are the Special Events for selected press at Apple's Cupertino headquarters (the last, in the fall, featured Jobs).
Last week's refresh of the Mac desktop line was accomplished with a drumroll of spyshots and a pair of press releases, yet there didn't MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 11, 2009 12:48 PM ET
It's hard to make sense of the conflicting reports of recent layoffs at Apple (AAPL). Valleywag's gossip editor in two separate posts said as many as 50 employees were laid off here and there. Apple PR flatly denied the first report and went semi-mum about the second. Then CNET's Tom Krazit interviewed several unnamed sources who said they were indeed called into a conference room and handed white manila walking MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 11, 2009 10:06 AM ET
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, the update of Apple's (AAPL) current Macintosh operating system that Steve Jobs said would ship in "about a year" when he introduced it last June, may not arrive until later this summer or fall.
That's one of the nuggets of news offered by Kaufman Bros.' Shaw Wu in a report to clients issued Wednesday.
Among other findings Wu turned up in a check of his sources MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 11, 2009 10:03 AM ET
UPDATE: Apple has approved the Amber Alert app described below, two days after the developer's open letter to Steve Jobs drew publicity to the cause. You can download it here.
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Software developers frustrated with Apple's (AAPL) sluggish and seemingly arbitrary procedures for reviewing iPhone applications for inclusion in the App Store have been struggling to find a way to get their complaints heard.
Now Jonathan Zdziarski, one of MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 10, 2009 6:17 PM ET
UPDATE: Apple has approved the Amber Alert app described below, two days after the developer's open letter to Steve Jobs drew publicity to the cause. You can download it here.
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Software developers frustrated with Apple's (AAPL) sluggish and seemingly arbitrary procedures for reviewing iPhone applications for inclusion in the App Store have been struggling to find a way to get their complaints heard.
Now Jonathan Zdziarski, one of MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 10, 2009 6:17 PM ET
February is going to turn out to have been a dismal month for Mac sales -- especially compared with last year -- says Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. But they should bounce back a bit in March, he adds.
The data on which Munster bases his predictions -- domestic sales estimates made by the NPD Group -- won't be released until next Monday, March 16. But that didn't stop Munster from MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 10, 2009 1:44 PM ET
"The good news is it held my attention throughout," said judge Len Goodman, who pronounced the performance, overall, "a disaster."
"It was like a Teletubby going mad at a Gay Pride parade," was Bruno Tonioli's snarky assessment.
The third judge was kinder. "Steve, I think you are what this competition is all about," said Carrie Ann Inaba. "You make us want to cheer for you."
That Steve, of course, was Steve Wozniak, co-founder of MORE
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