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Guardian: Apple has been approaching UK mobile providers to carry tablet (in a few months)

The Guardian reports that Apple has started looking for carrier partners in the UK.

Apple is understood to have approached several UK mobile phone networks, including Orange, about selling its forthcoming tablet computer to British customers.

As we reported earlier, this late...

Google postpones Android phone launches in China

Discussions between Google and the Chinese government remain tense, as the search giant battles against ‘Net censorship and questionable hacker attacks on human rights activists email accounts - now the company has postponed launch of two Android mobile phones in the country, reports the BBC.

The...

Speculation: Will Apple tablet be US-only on launch?

UK and European Apple-watchers may have a wait on their hands before they get their paws around the much-expected tablet - the content/carrier deals purportedly surrounding the device may demand a US-only launch, at least at first.

Suspicion this may be the case has been sparked by...

ComScore disses Gartner’s 99.4% App Store claims, the maths ‘miss’

So, Apple made 99.4 percent of all app sales for phones in 2009 did it?

Not so fast, warned ComScore this morning, raising questions at Gartner’s partisan and well-reported claims.

During a presentation at the Mobile Games Forum in London today, comScore analyst Alistair Hill said, "I think...

Tablet countdown widget for your OCD infatuation

Earlier this morning, Apple invited the media to their "Come see our latest creation" event. This event is likely to bring the long anticipated Apple tablet to light (finally!).

Because a lot of you will be counting down the minutes before that thing is unearthed,...

Apple tablet unlikely to be OLED -Ars

Ars tackled one specific feature of Apple's tablet this week: The Display and specifically would it be OLED-based or traditional LCD?  Their conclusion?  Not OLED.

Based on the assumption that it would be a 10-inch variety (and that's been reported often), they talked to part...

Apple plans 22-inch touch-enabled iMac for 2010 – report

There’s life beyond the tablet - Apple also intends introduction of a giant touch-enabled all-in-one PC (iMac?) this year, those ubiquitous reports from Taiwan tell us teasingly.

Sure - everyone’s already going ga-ga on the perhaps set for launch this month 10-inch Apple tablet (or tablets), but Apple’s game...

Chinese trouble: iPhone part supply hit by strike action

If you’re looking to purchase a new iPhone, there’s a chance that strike action in China may cause a supply hiccup, as it seems workers at a supplier delivering touchscreens for use on the iPhone have gone out on strike.

Workers in Chinese city, Suzhou, went on strike...

New York Times to coordinate pay site with Apple tablet launch?

New York Magazine reports that the New York Times is going to a paid model in the coming months and the time frame coincides with Apple's tablet launch, which also is expected to go public in the coming months.  That's not the only really vague correlation, however.

Bill Keller, Executive Editor for the New York Times...

In Internet speed, the USA is # 1…8

CNET reports on Akamai's latest survey of Internet speeds throughout the world.  All of the big players are there, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, etc.  

The bad news?  The US comes in 18th -- which is pretty sad.  Didn't Al Gore invent the Internet right here in the good ol' US of A?

The most surprising...

What next for the iPod? A pocket TV receiver and HDVR, of course…

Apple’s latest patent promises a pocketful of entertainment (or at least portable access to what passes for programming on today’s TV schedules), positing as it does possession of the ability to receive, record, playback and pump into iTunes all manner of shows broadcast on over-the-air...

Apple, Google’s Trillion dollar battle

If you’ve been wondering what Apple, Google, RIM, Nokia and the smaller players in mobile are fighting over in the mobile (and, increasingly, mobile ads) space, then here’s something to chew on. Informa Telecom & Media forecasts total mobile service revenues will exceed $1 trillion in 2013,...