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RIP, Steve Jobs

When I was growing up in Palo Alto in the 1960s, it was a town of engineers and Stanford professors. Today, it’s the capital of Silicon Valley, the home of venture capitalists, titans of industry and $1 million teardowns. More … Continue reading

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Content Isn’t King When It’s Stuck on Your Hard Drive

When I considered using an illegal file sharing program to download songs I had already bought, I had a moment of insight. No wonder people rip this stuff off. Continue reading

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iPhone 5 Speculation Hints at Mobile’s Future

Since Apple tends to be the smartphone trend-setter, here’s some of the more interesting speculation about what next summer’s roll-out of iPhone 5 will feature — and competitors will rush to duplicate. Continue reading

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Android vs. iPhone, Round 2

Technically, BlackBerry is still the world smartphone leader, with some 40% of the market. But for all practical purposes, the new race for dominance is between iPhone and Android Continue reading

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The iPhone Opens Up

Jobs announces a third party SDK for the world’s most closed phone I always thought that Apple got a pass from dazzled media over the closed nature of the iPhone. For all of Apple’s talk of being consumer-centric and user-friendly, … Continue reading

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Wi-Tunes?

The long-awaited Wi-Fi iTunes Store opens for business   Apple takes aim at yet another longstanding bug in the mobile content eco-system with the release Friday of its Wi-Fi iTunes Store. Owners of the iPhone and new touch iPod were … Continue reading

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Brrrring! Mon!

Ringtones Have a Mixed Week Industry analysts have predicted for years that the mobile ringotne fad had to ebb sometime. While there have been signs that European taste for tones has come to a bit of a plateau, the latest M:Metric figues … Continue reading

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iPhone, iTouch, iBuy, iThank Steve Jobs

The Apple iPhone rebate keeps the pressure on the wireless industry Why did Steve Jobs really reduce the iPhone price a whopping $200 only 90 days after its release? Business 2.0′s blog reels off ten possible reasons. Did Apple just … Continue reading

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Not All iPhone Apps Are Created Equal

Some developers are up to the iPhone challenge but others? Not so much There is a tendency for the Apple-istas to praise any new application made expressly for the iPhone. There is the excellent Plusmo widget portal, the very usable Digg for … Continue reading

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iPhone as the New Tiffany Network?

Bejeweled, DailyMotion, Digg all want a bite from that Apple mojo With only a fraction of the audience of any other mobile platform the iPhone is attracting dedicated development the way a chic new mall with little traffic sucks in … Continue reading

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