UPGRADE SOME COMPONENTS FIRST You will need to make sure your iPhone is updated to 1.1.2 and iTunes 7.5 & maybe even Quicktime 7.3. Of course, your iPhone upgrade is best handled by clicking on UPDATE after you dock your iPhone and turn on iTunes 7.5. This is a pretty big upgrade including a firmware […]

NBC decided to dump iTunes because they wanted to go down their own path. Why offer consumers, viewers and customer convenience when consumers will do ‘whatever we at NBC say?’ NBC – we’re so good – people should jump through flaming hoops to watch us! iTunes was oh so simple and boring. Sure, ONE CLICK […]

NBC-U Jeff Zucker is now mad people consider him and his Hulu venture idiotic so he is trying to talk as if he actually understands digital and the television business going forward. He now claims that $15 million from NBC iTunes sales is not enough for him. Nevermind that is 7.5 million impressions of NBC […]

A few weeks after the iPhone hit the market, AT&T sent out an extensive 20-question survey (covered in this post). Now, AT&T has followed up with another email survey – some questions the same – obviously to gauge differences between mid-July and now mid-October but others are more detailed in asking what you would like […]

Steve Jobs stumbled a bit around the quick price drop of the new iphone so maybe he is learning because the Apple web site confirms that Apple will be opening up the iPhone and iPod Touch to third party developers. While the recent iphone update (ver 1.1.1) bricked hacked iPhones, it also bricked iPhones running […]

Part I covered the “extra” features of the iPhone – most not revolutionary and not even evolutionary but here’s a strange concept to them apparently for cell phone manufacturers and mobile service providers … something really, really radical … A concept strange to them … EASY TO USE. What a strange concept. Anyone can throw […]

There is a lot of heated rhetoric regarding the iPhone but let’s separate the idle chatter from real facts: IF YOU TRY TO UNLOCK IT, YOU MIGHT BRICK IT Uh, yea. If you try and replace the carburetor on your BMW 6-series and your car starts belching black smoke and all the lights on the […]

Is iPhone 1.1.1 Make Your Web Browsing Hot? And I don’t mean that in a good way? Does your phone seem extra hot and battery extra draining? Actually, it seems to throw off the battery indicator – the tiny one shows 1/4 but when plugged it, it shows 1/2 drained. Anyone else?

Dongmei Li of Queens, New York, is suing Apple by claimin the company violated price discrimination laws when it slashed the price of the 8-gigabyte iPhone within two months of the iphone’s June debut. According to Li’s lawsuit, filed on September 24 in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, the price reduction […]

Nov. 9 in Britain will be a retailer’s day to remember. Apple has announced that will be the day they offer their iPhone to the public. The price set for the retail sale is GBP 269 (USD 537). Ouch! Plus, users will have to sign an 18-month contract (no 12 month option I guess) at […]