In an announcement that comes as no suprise, Apple’s said no to letting Opera put its popular mobile browser on the iPhone. This is, after all, the company who can’t stand to have App Store apps that compete with anything Apple makes.
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Low incomes aren’t deterring iPhone buyers, with more low wage earners defecting to the iPhone camp. The data on the increase of lower-income U.S. consumers buying iPhones comes from surveys by research company ComScore Mobile.
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In a rather bizarre example of corporate espionage, an iPod was used to steal data…in India. Investigators found that an iPod was used to beat a rival bid for a lucrative construction contract.
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Could the iPhone sell in even better numbers if Apple was brave enough to lower the price? Could Apple afford to drop the price in the first place? The answer to both questions is yes, at least according to analyst Charlie Wolf, who thinks the iPhone would do exceptionally well if it cost $99.
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Steve Jobs was personally on-hand when Apple announced it had sold another 11.05 million iPhones this quarter. That makes the total combined 6.9 million so far for the latest iPhone iteration.
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A recent survey found that more users surf the Web on Razr mobile phones than on the iPhone. Hardly surprising – the iPhone may be the current ‘it’ phone but Motorola’s Razr line is still outselling it, at least in the U.S.
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It was bound to happen sooner or later, and so it has. One iPhone application developer is suing another because the former claims that the latter copied the idea and cost him a fortune in lost sales. The apps in question are iBeer and iPint, both virtual beers available as an App Store download for people who feel the need to always have a pint in their hands, even if they’re nowhere near a bar.
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Abilene Christian University (ACU) freshmen in Texas got to choose between an iPhone or an iPod Touch as part of their welcome package. The nearly 1,000 freshmen are part of the university’s mobile learning project.
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The EU is pushing new regulations to make Apple have iPhone batteries easily replaceable. Such regulations would also apply to the company’s other best selling consumer device, the iPod.
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While email doesn’t take up a commanding presence on the iPhone 3G, the first-generation iPhone is a different story- especially those sporting only 4GB of disk space.  With the amount of music, photos, videos, etc. we load on our iPhones, conserving disk space in any way is more beneficial than you might think.  Email is the perfect starting point to conserving the ever-so-precious storage space. 
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