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Facebook Releases Official iPad App, New Mobile Website

After months of speculation, Facebook released today the first version of its official iPad application, available for free on the App Store. The version available today looks fairly similar to the leaked app posted by TechCrunch earlier this year: there is a navigation sidebar on the left side of the screen to search, open your...

iPhone 4S pre-orders topped 1 million worldwide in 24 hours

Surpassed the 600,000 record set in 2010 with the iPhone 4

Photo: Apple Inc.

Apple (AAPL) on Monday issued the following press release:

CUPERTINO, California—October 10, 2011—Apple® today announced pre-orders of its iPhone® 4S have topped one million in a single day, surpassing the previous single day pre-order record of 600,000 held by iPhone 4. iPhone 4S is...

iPhone 4S is cheaper, and more profitable, than the 4G Droids

Apple has managed to eliminate the price premium while maintaining its profit margins

Click to enlarge. Source: Deutsche Bank

"We expect customers who do the math to opt for the iPhone," writes Deutsche Bank's Chris Whitmore in a note to clients Monday.

Moreover, he adds, so will customers who don't do the math.

Whitmore's analysis involves comparing the price,...

iPhone 4S shipments begin

Units pre-ordered early last Friday are due to arrive by end-of-day this Friday

Source: UPS Tracking

The e-mail from Apple (AAPL) notifying me that my pre-ordered iPhone 4S had left Shenzhen, China, early Monday and was set be delivered in four days popped into my mailbox at 2:07 a.m. EST -- two days and 21 hours after...

iPhone 4S pre-orders may have topped 500,000 in the U.S. before Apple ran out

AT&T alone sold 200,000 in 12 hours. By Friday night, ship dates slipped to 1-2 weeks

If you had any doubts that Apple (AAPL) would be able to beat the record 1.7 million iPhones sold in three days in June 2010, you can put them to rest.

Despite early glitches that slowed down pre-orders, AT&T (T) announced...

Will the iPhone’s Siri have its ‘Egg freckles’ moment?

Apple's Newton handwriting recognition system was undone by a comic strip

Click to enlarge. Copyright: Gary Trudeau

The signature feature on the iPhone 4S that Apple (AAPL) unveiled Tuesday is Siri, a so-called intelligent assistant that depends on a lot of fiendishly complex artificial intelligence systems -- voice recognition, understanding context and natural language -- working flawlessly a...

Fortune Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 2011-10-04 08:38:44

Fifteen months after the iPhone 4 was introduced, Apple is set to unveil its successor

Schiller. Photo: PED

Apple on Tuesday introduced a new iPhone, the iPhone 4S, a new voice control system called Siri that it hopes will keep it ahead of its competitors by changing the way people communicate with their mobile phones.

Siri, however, is...

Find Out How Much Sleep You’ve Lost Thinking About the New iPhones With This New Appcessory

zeo-iphoneJust like their older system, Zeo’s new Sleep Manager Mobile tracks your sleep patterns using a transmitter worn on the forehead while sleeping that relays your sleep state to a receiver. Only Zeo’s new gadget transmits the data directly to the iPhone.  The Sleep Manager...

Ticonderoga on the new iPhone: Prepare for media blitz, long lines, unprecedented demand

An analyst looks at Apple as an investment opportunity today and likes what he sees

"We would rather own Apple than any other tech company in the current environment."

So writes Ticonderoga's Brian White in a note to clients issued Monday, the day before Apple's (AAPL) Oct. 4 iPhone event.

White has taken a look at the performance...

The iPhone 5 rumor roadmap

It starts in June 2010 with the launch of the iPhone 4 and ends -- maybe -- this Tuesday

Source: AllAreaCodes

Somebody has taken the trouble to document -- with footnotes -- the rumor-filled roadmap that has brought us to Tuesday's iPhone press event at Apple (AAPL) headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. The result is the infographic published two...

What to watch for at Apple’s iPhone event on Tuesday

The stakes will be high when the new CEO makes his debut as Steve Jobs' successor

Apple Town Hall. Photo: Corinne Schulze/CNET Networks

Cook

Tim Cook will have a lot on his plate Tuesday when he takes the stage at the Town Hall auditorium on Apple's (AAPL) Cupertino, Calif., campus.

Leaving aside whether he can fill the shoes of...

iOS’s Internet market share hits a record 54.65%

And where is Android? Still trailing Java ME, according to Net Applications

Data: Net Applications. Chart: PED

You would think that with nearly 50% of the global market for smartphones that Google's (GOOG) Android would also dominate the Web.

Not so, according to a report issued Saturday by Net Applications.

When measured against other smartphone/tablet operating systems, Apple's (AAPL)...