Could it be that the mark of a true business mastermind is identifying the oddest source of extraneous cost and ruthlessly scything it out?  If so, Apple iPod chief Tony Fadell might just be a genius: the latest patent application to go public from the company, bearing his name, is for a collapsible CD or DVD adaptor that snaps around an 8cm disk and makes it the correct, 12cm diameter to fit safely into a slot-loading drive.  The reason for this new splash of intellectual property?  Saving on shipping and production costs of software releases.

 

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Compounding underwhelming European iPhone launches, will fewer iPhones end up in American stockings this year based on AT&T Ceo Randall Stephenson recently confirming the coming of a 3G model with better battery life in 2008?

Seemingly solid confirmation that Apple have a 3G iPhone waiting - or at least being polished up - in the wings for a 2008 launch came this week from AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, and with it a rise in Apple stock price from $180.22 to in excess of $184.  The 3G handset, which is set to answer criticisms from reviewers and consumers alike as to the mediocre data access speeds of the original, EDGE-based iPhone, is rumoured to utilise the low-power Broadcom BCM21551 chipset announced in October, which packs 7.2Mbps HSDPA and graphics processing onto a single chip.

 

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After reviewing the "i-volution Top SP", it will be difficult to find a case that will compete with this top class product. Even another Vaja case will have a hard time doing so. Nevertheless, I jumped right into the next...

Incipio will soon release what they call the "thinCRADLE" for iPhone. The new iPhone dock is CNC machined out of aircraft grade aluminum (F18 or Cessna?). The raised stand makes it easy for left and right hand navigation. You can...

Not only do French people especially need jobs so they can buy more iPhones... but Steve Jobs was recently named Fortune's Most Powerful Man In Business. Sexy!

Staff at the UK’s biggest mobile phone retailer, Carphone Warehouse, have been caught misleading customers about Apple’s popular iPhone handset.Undercover researchers from BBC One’s Watchdog found staff made false claims about what would happen if a phone was stolen and had not been insured.
This was in the hope customers would take out the store

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This week, Google released a new version of Maps including a new beta feature — My Location. My Location uses the same technology as Navizon’s GPS free positioning system. Using cell phone towers to locate your position provides your general location within 1000m. The application pinpoints your location, and puts a blue transparent circle around the location to show that you could be anywhere within that circle.

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… to making sure that your albums can be watched on TV, cellphone , iPod, iPhone, Zune or other mobile-based portable devices and on website. For anyone who wishes to …

Hum is the 29th application of the iApp-a-Day project by Sean Heber. Nearing the end of the month, it looks like Sean is running out of ideas as this little application does pretty much nothing. It’s apparently an application where you can make robot sounds or something of that sort. If you move the sliders fast, you can jam to some random 8-bit tunes that are being made.

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… This means that downloads will be compatible with all portable music players including iPods, iPhones and Walkmans. Tracks will also be burnable to CD with no restriction. Michael Lang, …

… market.” He criticized the existing regulatory framework for keeping recent technology, such as the iPhone, out of the hands of Canadian consumers. “We were, and still are, very much …

… nothing to deserve that same-said something. People want music and movies for free. Early iPhone customers demanded money back when the price dropped even though they knew how much …