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Facebook, Apple: And, their eyes met from across the room

Ronald O Carlson — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:20:48 +0000

Apple’s iTunes Ping, the company’s social network for music, was supposed to arrive with Facebook integration baked. In fact, non-public betas clearly had integration, but the final product arrived with it. Although it is still early days, another non-public beta, this still time iOS, shows that Facebook integration is making a comeback. Is [...]
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‘Cheap’ iPhones for Apple Store workers

Ronald O Carlson — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:07:12 +0000

When I was at a Verizon Wireless Store last week, several long faces told me employees weren’t yet allowed to purchase the iPhone 4 — more the merrier for customers. Their Apple Store counterparts, however, aren’t being denied and the details show there are savings to be had.

Thereupon, ifoAppleStore reports that [...]
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Woz delivers truth about white iPhone 4

Michael W. Jones — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:15:58 +0000

The tech world has been going bananas over the last seven months trying to find a white iPhone 4 somewhere, or at least to figure out why there are no white iPhone 4s anywhere in captivity.

Since June of [...]
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Verizon iPhone announcement rumored for 1/11/11 at 11

Ronald O Carlson — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 02:26:06 +0000

Back when I lived in Taiwan, everything from lotto numbers to the date we moved house and the hour my wife delivered by C-section to the day we left to come here was determined by an astrologer or soothsayer of some kind — c’est la vie, qui est le bon mariage! Who would’ve [...]
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Still no Verizon iPhone facts

Michael W. Jones — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:21:34 +0000

The rumors have flown for years, saying the Verizon iPhone is just around the corner. However, until Apple and Verizon announce that a Verizon iPhone is officially in the offing, we may all be premature.

It is difficult to remember [...]
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Verizon LTE iPhone spotted

Ronald O Carlson — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 16:49:37 +0000

The seemingly credible rumors to date have been almost categorical that the release of a Long Term Evolution (LTE) + CDMA compatible iPhone isn’t in the cards for 2011. Nevertheless, rumors of just such a device persist.

Who’s afraid of a little email inbox cruft? Today’s iPhone received a bit o’ verbiage [...]
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Apple talking with Indian CDMA carriers

Ronald O Carlson — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:42:35 +0000

Why would the mothership develop and market an iPhone compatible with last-century, dead-end CDMA technology? Well, there are actually about 550-million reasons worldwide and it seems not a few of them live in South Asia.

We’ve all heard — again and again and again — rumors that there will be a Verizon [...]
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It lives! Verizon still a go for early 2011

Ronald O Carlson — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 03:32:48 +0000

Quite naturally, all of the spokesmen for the people who actually know have declined to comment. Yes, it’s another week and yet another spin of the Verizon iPhone story. Can you say, “Rumor fatigue”?

The Wall Street Journal is back again with a fresh spinning of the Verizon iPhone. Yes, it will [...]
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Early iAd pay rates high, perhaps unsustainable

Ronald O Carlson — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:03:10 +0000

Smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em, boys! Some of the earliest implementers of Apple’s in-app advertising platform, iAds, are reporting stellar results with at least one dev saying he earned more than fourteen-hundred on the first day. However, the good times may not last

Wall Street Journal is reporting on chatter from [...]
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The vPhone, for real, in January…

Ronald O Carlson — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:23:44 +0000

Rumors about the iPhone on Verizon have gained a focus and that’s January of next year, though no one that could be cornered and questioned has stepped forward to confirm or disavow the story. Given all of the pain AT&T’s experienced, if there is to be a vPhone, Verizon’s going to test the [...]
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