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This post was written by Mary Joseff
Apple Instapaper Free is another very confusing app for the iPhone. This app updates with the bookmarks you’ve made from your computer and keeps them loaded in the app so you can read them even if you’re not receiving any sort of connection. The app is completely free for use on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and your computer. The biggest advantage that this app has is that it does create a sort of de.lic.ious type service, sharing all your bookmarks in one place.
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Apple has filed for a patent that would cover a means of using a multi-touch device with gloves. The US Patent Office application notes that capacitive touchscreens like those on the iPhone and iPod touch are problematic in colder weather. As they depend on the electrical response from a user’s fingertips, which is often blocked off when wearing insulated gloves, the screens either force users to take off their gloves or else sit tight until they return indoors.
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The Apple iPhone now has a 30 percent market share in the U.S. smartphone market and 16.6 percent of the worldwide smartphone market. Apple is now second only to Nokia, which, while still very strong, saw its share plummet from 63.3 to 43.6 percent year over year. Most of that loss went directly to Apple. Additionally, Apple’s strong iPhone launch has prevented this market segment from stalling. The launch of the iPhone is the “only reason” the smartphone market didn’t show a drop in numbers.
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Apple Inc.’s servers on July 11 reached their breaking point as people in the United States and 21 other countries rushed to stores to buy and activate their new iPhones or tried to update older models with the latest firmware. People waiting in line at stores reported very slow progress in getting their hands on Apple’s media player-smartphone hybrid. Others trying to update older models with the latest 2.0 firmware, the same operating system powering the new gadgets, fared even worse, since incomplete downloads of the software left their iPhones unusable. Although Apple was not immediately available for comment, it appeared that the company’s servers were overwhelmed with the amount of requests they were receiving.
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A couple of months back Apple launched their updated notebooks, and one of the new features was the Mini DisplayPort. This new port becoming more popular as Apple is offering no-fee licenses for those who are interested in developing products that will use the Mini DisplayPort. This new port from Apple is a miniature version of the VESA-approved DisplayPort, the Mini DisplayPort fully supports the protocol, but has been reduced in size. This is not the first time that Apple has used miniaturized versions of VGA and DVI, Mini DisplayPort is keeping up with that tradition.
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Apple Inc. has filed a patent for a technology which would enable a layer of solar cells to be inserted under a touch-sensitive screen of the sort used in the iPhone. This would let owners of Apple devices, such as iPods and iPhones, charge the devices by leaving them out in the sun. If awarded, the patent has the potential to make the iPhone a truly portable device by eliminating the need for the phone to be connected to a power supply by wires.
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Softbank Corp. has won the right to sell Apple Inc.’s iPhone in Japan and will market the popular next-generation phone in 2008, in a coup for the nation’s third-largest mobile communications carrier. For Apple, Japan’s large but saturated mobile phone market will be an important stepping stone in its bid to expand its global mobile phone share.
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Apple Inc. has unveiled a service that allows users to wirelessly sync and access information across multiple devices. Dubbed MobileMe, it’s a cloud storage service that enables push e-mail and real-time synchronization of calendar items, contact information, and other data on an iPhone without the need for a Microsoft Exchange server. The Web-based MobileMe works with the iPhone’s mail, calendar, and contacts applications in addition to working with Mail, iCal, and Address Book on the Macintosh and Outlook on Windows. Additionally, MobileMe offers online storage for documents, files, and photos.
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Apple Inc. and AT&T Inc. have settled claims that the iPhone’s “visual voicemail” technology infringed on the patents held by Klausner Technologies Inc. The visual voicemail feature lets iPhone users see a list of people who’ve left them phone messages and listen to the messages in any order they choose. With the settlement, in which Apple and AT&T have agreed to take out licenses on the technology, both the companies have joined eBay Inc.’s Skype division, which had also settled a similar lawsuit last month.
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Apple Inc., which had made AT&T the exclusive carrier of its iPhone, has extended its exclusivity agreement with AT&T for a year. The exclusivity deal, which the company had signed with AT&T last year, was due to expire at the beginning of 2009. With the 120-year old brand becoming cool again due to its alliance with iPhone and the smartphone sales improving, both the companies seem to be happy with the results of the deal. By subsidizing each iPhone 3G sold by $300, AT&T is able to make the smartphone far more attractive to consumers.
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