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Rural America's (other) great broadband hope

Can so-called Super Wi-Fi bring high speeds and low costs to rural Americans? xG Technologies thinks so.

NB: This is the second story in a two part series about rural broadband access in America. To read the first part, please click here.

FORTUNE -- Engineers have long dreamed of using cheap wireless networks to do an end-run around the companies that now provide Internet access and cell phone service. Those dreams have MORE

Why thieves love to steal phones

FORTUNE -- Next time you whip out your iPhone on the sidewalk or the subway, you might first want to glance over your shoulder. Smartphones have become a favorite target of thieves who do what the police call a snatch and grab. One favorite M.O.: The perp grabs a phone and jumps off the train just as the doors are closing. So far this year, over 40% of thefts in MORE

iPhone 4S shipments begin

Units pre-ordered early last Friday are due to arrive by end-of-day this Friday

The e-mail from Apple (AAPL) notifying me that my pre-ordered iPhone 4S had left Shenzhen, China, early Monday and was set be delivered in four days popped into my mailbox at 2:07 a.m. EST -- two days and 21 hours after AT&T's (T) servers finally let my order go through.

9to5Mac meanwhile has posted a notice from Sprint (S) that MORE

iPhone 4S pre-orders may have topped 500,000 in the U.S. before Apple ran out

AT&T alone sold 200,000 in 12 hours. By Friday night, ship dates slipped to 1-2 weeks

If you had any doubts that Apple (AAPL) would be able to beat the record 1.7 million iPhones sold in three days in June 2010, you can put them to rest.

Despite early glitches that slowed down pre-orders, AT&T (T) announced Friday it had taken orders for 200,000 iPhone 4S units in the first 12 hours MORE

AT&T reeled under the crush of iPhone 4S pre-orders. Verizon and Sprint seemed to be fine

Widespread reports of long waits, starting shortly after midnight Pacific time

"2 hours of putting in my information and hitting refresh and I STILL don't have an iPhone 4S.  AT&T, you failed again. Goodnight."

Eric ("gameric") Gamero, who posted that message on Twitter at about 3:15 a.m. PST Friday, was hardly alone. In the early hours after Apple (AAPL) began taking pre-orders for its latest iPhone, due out next Friday, hundreds of similar MORE

How eBay is cashing in on the iPhone 4S

Apple's newest iPhone isn't even out yet and already the e-commerce site is using the device's impending arrival to drum up new sales.

FORTUNE -- The iPhone 4S announcement may have been "underwhelming" for some, but if eBay's early trade-in numbers are any indication, there's demand for Apple's latest device.

Earlier this week, eBay (EBAY) announced a smartphone trade-in promotion with its Instant Sale program pegged to iPhone 4S. Smartphone owners with MORE

Live from Apple's iPhone event

Fifteen months after the iPhone 4 was introduced, Apple unveils its successor: the iPhone 4S

Apple on Tuesday introduced a new iPhone, the iPhone 4S, and a new voice control system called Siri that it hopes will keep it ahead of its competitors by changing the way people communicate with their mobile phones.

Siri, however, is still in beta -- or not quite finished -- mode.

And the phone most of the world MORE

Handicapping the iPhone rumors

With only hours to go before the truth is known, Apple watchers are placing their bets

I can't recall an Apple (AAPL) event surrounded by as many unanswered questions as the "Let's talk iPhone" press conference scheduled to begin today at 10 a.m. Pacific (1 p.m. Eastern).

Will there be one new iPhone or two? An iPhone 5 or 4S? Square edged or teardrop? Exclusive to Sprint (S) or available also through MORE

What to expect on Oct. 4

When did an All Things Digital become the keeper of Apple's event calendar? 

We don't recall getting an invitation from Apple to an event on Oct. 4 or any other date, but that hasn't stopped analysts from alerting their clients exactly what to expect from the company that day. Jeffries' Peter Misek, for example, issued this note on Friday:

Apple holding press event on October 4. 

Takeaway: We expect Apple (AAPL) to focus MORE

Get ready for another iPhone 'big bang' says J.P. Morgan

Expect two new models and expansion into untapped U.S. and Chinese carriers

J.P. Morgan's Mark Moskowitz, one of the last holdouts on Wall Street, has come around to what has become conventional wisdom among Apple (AAPL) watchers: That the company is set to release not one but two iPhones, an iPhone 5 and what Moskowitz calls an iPhone 4-plus.

In a report to clients Monday he describes what his "research" has turned up. MORE