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Early Apple iPhone reviews highlight a revolutionary device with a few glaring flaws.  Walt Mossberg of the WSJ writes:
We have been testing the iPhone for two weeks, in multiple usage scenarios, in cities across the country. Our verdict is that, despite some flaws and feature omissions, the iPhone is, on balance, a beautiful and breakthrough [...]

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Apple Inc. has issued a security update for its Mac OS X operating system that repairs multiple vulnerabilities.
The security fixes, issued on Wednesday, repair a series of flaws through which an attacker could fool a person into taking actions that would let someone hijack, crash or obtain access rights to a computer.
The vulnerabilities exist in [...]

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It’s the beginning of the end for TV as we know it.
Amid iPhone madness, many may have missed the invention that could kill cable. Last week, Apple released AppleTV, a tiny white box that connects the shows and movies you’ve downloaded from the computer, and wirelessly transmits them to your TV screen.
No longer will you [...]

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1 U.S. mobile carrier, which built up its market presence with billions of dollars over the past few years, will see its brand replaced by AT&T’s starting this coming week..  AT&T took full control of Cingular with its $86 billion purchase of BellSouth last month.  In the marketing campaigns first stage, which launches on this Monday, Cingular’s orange logo of a bouncing jack will co-exist with the AT&T globe logo on everything from television ads to sales uniforms and monthly bills.  “We did not enter that decision lightly,” Wendy Clark, vice president of advertising at AT&T, said in an interview.  “We came to understand that consumer customers and business customers alike are looking for a single provider.  We heard it so consistently across the marketplace.”  AT&T ’s name and logo will eventually completely replace Cingular in a process expected to take several months The exact timing will be determined as more customer feedback comes in, Clark said.  Cingular built up a reputation among younger customers who may not easily associate with the AT&T brand.  Although, AT&T had indicated that the re-branding was a part of its strategy, as reported by Adweek, the announcement still appears strange given the recent announcement of Apple’s iPhone device which is exclusively linked to Cingular through a multi-year exclusive deal.

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Anssi Vanjoki, the head of the multimedia unit at Nokia, indicated that Apple’s iPhone was an interesting product but lacked some essential features.
“It is quite an interesting product but it is lacking a few essential features, such as 3G, which would enable fast data connections,” Vanjoki, whose multimedia unit is a direct rival to Apple, [...]

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Cisco Systems Inc., the world’s largest networking equipment maker, sued Apple in San Francisco federal court on Wednesday, claiming that Apple’s iPhone violates its trademark.
Cisco is asking the court to forbid Apple from using the name “iPhone,” which Cisco has held a trademark on since 2000 and used to brand a line of its own [...]

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Lost in the excitement of the Apple iPhone announcement, the real message of Steve Job’s Keynote speech could be the following statement:
“From this day forward we’re going to be known as Apple, Inc. We’ve dropped the computer from our name.” And then he quoted ice skating legend Wayne Gretzky. “‘I skate to where the puck [...]

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After the euphoria surrounding Apple’s announcement of the iPhone, questions remain about the phone and the service bundle through Cingular.  Business 2.0 asks a few pertinent questions:
But what do we still not know about the iPhone? Even though Jobs spent the good part of two hours going over it’s every feature in loving detail, [...]

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Apple Inc. has posted a QuickTime video of today’s MacWorld Keynote address by Steve Job’s.  Links allow you to view the entire Keynote or just the iPhone introduction.

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For more information, visit Apple’s iPhone site.

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