12.27.07 - 03:05pm
Apple has just filed a new patent that may reveal what the iPhone could become - much more than just a mobile computer, but also a new way of getting through life. The iPhone could also become a purchaser of products at McDonads, Starbucks and more.
The patent says “A processing system is described that includes a wireless communication interface that wirelessly communicates with one or more wireless client devices in the vicinity of an establishment. The wireless communication interface receives a remote order corresponding to an item selected by at least one of the wireless client devices. A local server computer located in proximity to the establishment generates instructions for processing the remote order received from the wireless communication interface. The local server computer then passes the processing instructions to an order processing queue in preparation for processing of the remote order.”
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12.26.07 - 04:18pm
The iPhone has been heralded as the “Invention of the Year” by Time magazine and had an utterly superb phone web browser
with a beauty no one can deny. Nonetheless it has often been criticized for its lack of business use. Avaya Inc. is about to bridge the iPhone with businesses allowing it to connect seamlessly to the business network while at work.
Avaya, is a privately held telecommunication company that specializes in enterprise telephone and call center technology. With the new downloadable program which is set to come out in the UK at the beginning of 2008, business users will be able to go to work and connect the iPhone into their business network. This will allow for the iPhone to take over the typical desk phone. It can then be used for conference calls, call transfer, abbreviated dialing and anything else the desk phones can do.
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12.19.07 - 12:24pm
Apple is looking to cross the continents and traverse into Asian waters seeking deals in China, South Korea and now in Japan.
Japans market, like China’s and South Korea’s is proving to be a hard one for Apple to cinch a deal with the incredible revenue sharing of iPhone subscriptions that Apple wants. The fact that South Korean talks have been ongoing since August and no deal has been made yet in China, where Apple has been under negotiations since November, can’t help matters. In Japan, however Apple is using free commerce to its advantage and pitting two rival Japanese companies against each other in an effort to get the deal Apple wants.
NTT DoCoMo would be the obvious choice for Apple as they control the market with half the overall share. They are known for being the first to market the hottest high end phones. Softband is the other mobile network Apple is in talks with. Softband is known for being behind on their phones and technology. Getting the iPhone would be a huge push for them. Most likely though, Apple is just trying to use them to force NTT DoCoMO into a deal.
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12.14.07 - 02:17pm
Every year Apple blogs are flooded with speculation as to what will be released at the Apple MacWorld exposition in January. Apple, who keeps absolutely mum on anything up and coming, creates so much rampant speculation that they generate approximately 700 million in free advertising each year. MacWorld is one of the most talked about events as this is where Apple usually showcases any new products.
Expected for MacWorld this year is a new skinny, skinny, laptop. Fifty percent thinner than the current model the laptop is expected to have a 12-13 inch screen, optional flash memory, LED backlighting and no optical drive. The price is expected to run around $1500, more expensive than average, but you will get all the great normal Mac software such as iMovie already included. Programs that would cost you hundreds of dollars a piece to buy and put on a regular computer. Whether or not it will support a touch sensitive screen similar to the Touch is up in the air and most likely just a “please we want that.”
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12.12.07 - 02:07pm
It would appear that the iPhone and the iPod are the “hot” items for the holiday season in Europe as well as the U.S. ComScore, a digital market research firm, tracked the frequency of online searches in the U.K., France, and Germany and reported that combined the highest searched items were; #1 Nintendo Wii, #2 iPod, #3 Nintendo DS Lite, #4 Playstation PSP, #5 iPhone. The iPod nano was ranked at #7, giving Apple three of the top 10 products.
The iPod in the #2 position had a total of 3.5 million searches. The iPhone while taking #5 of the electrical gadgets was #1 in mobile phone searches with 707,000 weekly searches.
“We know that music players, game consoles, and mobile phones are very popular with consumers this year,” said Bob Ivins, comScore EVP of European Markets. “The interesting aspect of this study is identifying which products are generating the most consumer searches, which can provide retailers and manufacturers with important insight into the underlying consumer demand for each specific product.”
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12.12.07 - 12:56pm
Nokia currently controls 39 percent of the 1.1 billion global mobile phone business, and own 50 percent of the worlds smartphones. They are a force to be reckoned with and they are putting up the largest battle of all the mobile phone operators against Apple’s iPhone and Googles new open platformed Android.
“It’s very clear that Apple, Google, and other players are bringing in a lot of new directions,” Nokia’s CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in an interview with the New York Times. “Convergence is a nice, dandy word, but it means industries colliding.”
Kallasvuo says that Nokia is poised to continue their domination in spite of the drop in market share in the U.S. Nokia now only holds 10 percent of the U.S. market down from 28 percent five years ago. While Kallasvo said they are not going to outright copy Apple’s business of sharing revenue he did say they are looking to expand with a possible shared turnover model in new services provided. “We are interested in Internet communities, navigation and all kinds of entertainment. We will look into these areas and strike when an opportunity arises,” said Kallasvuo.
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12.11.07 - 04:33pm
Apple is surely hard at work to prevent any malicious malware attacks predicted for the upcoming 2008 season. According to Arbor Networks Security and Engineering Response Team (ASERT) the iPhone will be “the victim of a serious attack” this next year.
ASERT says this is due to the high public scrutiny the iPhone has received over it being “locked”. Hackers love a challenge and many will want to be the first to hack the iPhone says ASERT.
The iPhone will more than likely fall victim to viscous webpages or in messages sent, similar to attacks on PCs. “Assaults are likely to be in the form of … malware embedded into seemingly harmless information, images or other media that actually perform dangerous actions when rendered on the iPhone’s Web browser,” ASERT said.
“2007 was the year of the browser exploit, the data breach, spyware and the storm worm. We expect 2008 to be the year of the iPhone attack, the Chinese Hacker, P2P network spammers and the hijacking of the Storm botnet,” said Jose Nazario, senior security engineer at Arbor Networks.
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12.10.07 - 04:20pm
No cash allowed still but you can now purchase five rather than two iPhones if you wish this holiday season.
Initially it was thought that Apple had set the two iPhone limit in order to try to stop buyers from re-selling the iPhone illegally unlocked and to conserve iPhones for the European release. Whether or not the extra iPhones are being allowed in the U.S. is due to extra stock, consumer demand in buying gifts for others, or because Apple is now using alternative means to crack down on unlocked iPhones is anyone’s guess. Apple is remaining mum as usual.
The increase in the iPhone availability and the possibility of extra product doesn’t appear to be hurting their stock however, which has been on the rise and is currently at $194.45 in after hours trading.
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12.07.07 - 11:31am
Vendors in Singapore are no longer selling the iPhone, at least not so openly, after Apple threatened retailers in Sim Lim Square, a Singapore mall with numerous technology vendors, with legal action.
The iPhone is not yet available in Singapore although it has been sold there unlocked and illegally since it first was released in the states. Apple told the vendors in an e-mail that unlocking the iPhone was a violation of the software license agreement. Apple said they would go after $1000 of damages for every unlocked iPhone sold.
Retailers have since stopped selling the iPhone, at least openly as before. “We used to sell it, but not anymore,” said a sales manager at Royal Plus Pacific, an electronics shop in Sim Lim Square. The manager said that they did not stop selling the iPhone due to Apple’s threats, however, but rather because they had run out of stock.
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12.06.07 - 01:08pm
360 million. That’s what Klausner Technologies is suing Apple for, insisting that one of the iPhones most inventive attributes, the visual viocemail, is theirs.
Klausner says that patents 5,572,576 and 5,283,818 which they hold, give them the rights to visual voicemail and require Apple to pay for using the technology.
The suite was filed by Dovel & Luner, a California law firm in a federal court in Texas. Klausner is has also named additional companies in the lawsuit suing AT&T, GotVoice, SimulScribe, Comcast, Cablevisions Systems and eBay, siting that all of them sell products featuring voicemail visually on a phone screen.
Klausner has won similar lawsuits against Time Warner, AOL and Vonage in the past two years, making this particular lawsuit one of the most likely to win with a high price of payment for Apple.
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