AT&T Is Winning an iPhone Battle It Doesn't Even Want to Win
This morning's earnings report from AT&T confirms that it sold more iPhones than its competitor Verizon last quarter, something it probably isn't too ecstatic about.
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This morning's earnings report from AT&T confirms that it sold more iPhones than its competitor Verizon last quarter, something it probably isn't too ecstatic about.
Verizon's strong Q1 earnings were a lot about the iPhone, proving Apple has nothing to worry about in terms of its wireless partners' subsidy of their mega-selling smartphones.
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As fanboys and girls anticipate Apple's big iPad announcement on Wednesday, you're probably looking down at your scratched iPhone and starting to feel like it's kind of tired.
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Today, the 25 billionth time-waster has been downloaded from Apple's App Store. Contain your enthusiasm.
The Pentagon's top researchers are getting nervous about the smartphones and tablets civilians are carrying around in their pockets, backpacks and cars, calling the devices dangerous for national security.
Depending on the time of month, developers and tech bloggers tend to be either upset about the supposedly overly strict rules in Apple's App Store or concerned that the company doesn't better police its own standards.
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Not limiting its tracking to iDevices, Google has also bypassed Internet Explorer's privacy settings, getting around the search engine's cookie restrictions, according to Microsoft.
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Taking our suggestion from this morning -- at least we would like to think Apple reads our site -- Apple has changed its policy on granting apps access to iPhone user contacts.
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What is a social media editor without an iPad? Not much in this world. Perhaps that's why the story of how Reuters social media editor Anthony De Rosa lost and then recovered his expensive device is all over Twitter.
It might not make sense to Americans, with our cushy office jobs filled with ergonomic keyboards and yoga-ball chairs, but a job at Foxconn is something a lot of Chinese people want.
A year ago, we probably would've been excited about new reports that the Foxconn is starting to manufacture the new teardrop-shaped iPhone for a midsummer launch, but now we just feel weird about the whole thing.
Now that iMessage has been out for a couple of months, stats are revealing just how much the new service reduces the amount that people send traditional text messages.
As news emerged that the Obamas will honor Steve Jobs by inviting his wife Laurene Powell Jobs to sit with the First Lady during the State of the Union address, The Guardian's Charles Authur rolled out a simple timeline tracking the history of the smartphone.
This morning Verizon reported a fourth quarter loss of $2.02 billion, or 71 cents per share and even though it doubled iPhone sales over the holiday season to 4.2 million, the loss had a lot to do with those very sales
The New York Times goes deep on how Apple's supply chain ties it to factories like Foxconn's colossus in China, and how the success of Apple isn't leading to middle-class job growth here.
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Apple has called a halt to all iPhone sales in China after huge crowds disrupted the launch of the iPhone 4S in Beijing. And now there's video.
When PostSecret, the beloved secret-on-a-post-card sharing site, announced it had to take down its app because of "content that was not just pornographic but also gruesome and at times threatening," fans were not happy about it.
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Apple rolled out its 5.0.1 version of iOS, and one well-known iPhone hacker has noticed that the update allows Siri to be installed onto older Apple phones fully legally.
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When translating its popular iPad app for magazine reading to the iPhone, Flipboard didn't just shrink its iPad app and slap it on the iPhone.
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