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It took the heavy hand of the Federal Communications Commission to pry it loose, but we finally have a clearer picture of how Apple's (AAPL) App Store approval process works.
The details are contained in Apple's response to the FCC's July 31 letter of inquiry into why Google's (GOOG) Google Voice app has not been approved....
Dancing on AT&T's grave in the Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal's editorial board and I disagree about almost everything, including the legacy of the late Robert Novak.
The op-ed page, however, is a different matter. And on Tuesday the Journal ran a guest commentary by Andy Kessler that says what many of us have been thinking about AT&T's (T) role in Apple's (AAPL)...
Heavy duty car navigation comes to the iPhone
TomTom, one of the leading manufacturers of stand-alone GPS systems, rolled out its industrial strength iPhone car navigation software across the time zones Sunday, starting in New Zealand and ending with an app for the U.S. and Canadian markets early Monday.
The price, $99.99 for the app and its maps (a car mount adaptor kit is...
Apple's $1.2 billion tablet computer
Piper Jaffray senior analyst Gene Munster took another crack at the Apple (AAPL) tablet computer he's been writing about for months, issuing a report to clients Friday that included some back-of-the-envelope sales estimates and a computer-generated rendering of what he thinks it will look like.
"Last week we spoke with an Asian component supplier that has...
Apple's curious PR problem
The tech press is buzzing this week with the news that a senior Apple (AAPL) vice president took the time to e-mail a blogger.
The senior VP was Phil Schiller, one of Steve Jobs' top lieutenants. The blogger was Daring Fireball's John Gruber, one of Apple's staunchest defenders. The issue was Apple's apparent censorship of an...
The FCC is asking Apple and AT&T all the right questions
Sometimes you’ve just got to love the government.
Case in point: the inquiry that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission launched Friday into why exactly Apple (AAPL) decided to reject Google’s (GOOG) powerful Google Voice call-management system for the iPhone, and what role AT&T (T) played in the decision.
Hundreds of reporters — from the tiniest blogs to...
iPhone switchers: Blodget in, Arrington out
This has been busy season for celebrity iPhone switching — and I’m not talking about Britney, Ashton or Branjelina. No, these are tech celebrities, the kind of people who tend to dominate Techmeme’s list of the most-influential pundits and bloggers.
Om Malik, the New Delhi-born founder and executive editor of GigaOm (No. 17 on the Techmeme...
The $79 (refurbished) iPhone
The sticker price on Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone — once an formidable barrier to widespread adoption — is falling faster than Sarah Palin’s approval ratings.
When it first hit the market two years ago, the entry level 8GB iPhone cost $599.
Two months later, to the dismay of early adopters, it dropped to $399.
Last July, an iPhone 3G...
Apple, Palm seen cutting into BlackBerry sales
Growing competition from new smartphones carved into Research in Motion’s (RIMM) June sales, according to a report to clients issued Wednesday by Piper Jaffray’s T. Michael Walkley.
RIM’s BlackBerry still has a huge market share — nearly 20% of the worldwide smartphone market, second only to Nokia (NOK), according to Gartner — but Walkley’s retail checks...
Where have all the white iPhones gone?
It’s the reverse of Henry Ford’s line about the Model T. Today you can buy any iPhone you want, as long as it’s not white.
Apple (AAPL) has been having trouble keeping the entry-level white iPhone in stock since the new 3GS went on sale two and a half weeks ago. But as of Tuesday morning,...
Antitrust: Apple and AT&T in DOJ’s sights
The U.S. government agencies in charge of policing antitrust violations — long dormant under the Bush administration and newly revitalized under Barack Obama’s — seem to be circling closer to Cupertino.
According to a report Monday in the Wall Street Journal’s online edition, the Department of Justice has begun an initial review of the U.S. telecommunications...
How many new iPhones did AT&T sell?
AT&T’s (T) widely leaked “best-ever sales day” memo ticking off the records set on June 19, 2009 — the day it began selling the iPhone 3GS — is packed with superlatives but notably lacking in numbers. (See memo below.)
Unlike Apple (AAPL), which reports on a quarterly basis how many iPhones it has shipped, AT&T keeps...
