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09 Aug 08 Trouble For The iPhone App Store

A recent blog post on CNN money talks about a few problems that have arisen since the inception of the App Store for iPhone and iPod touch devices.  The App Store is a new feature in the latest version of the iPhone OS that allows users to download applications directly onto their devices.  The App [...]

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29 Jun 08 Survey Reports 8 in 10 Businesses Use Macs

A recent survey from Yankee Group Research Inc. reports that 8 in 10 businesses now use Apple Mac computers. This is almost double the amount from only 2 years ago. The Yankee Group surveyed over 700 senior IT managers and C-level executives. Out of those surveyed, 21% reported having over 50 Macs. [...]

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29 Jun 08 Apple releases version 8 of the iPhone SDK

Apple has just released the 8th edition of the iPhone SDK. This version is the beta release 8, and includes XCode 3.1. This version includes everything that is needed to author, test and publish software applications for the iPhone OS. The new iPhone SDK is fully compatible with iPhone OS 2.0 and [...]

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20 Jun 08 Smartphone security and the new iPhone

In this article from eWeek, the author discusses the security issues that IT managers must consider when deploying the new Apple iPhone, Blackberry devices from RIM, or any other smartphones. The article describes one CIO that only allows certain kinds of smartphones on his organization’s network, and even then only allows them to do [...]

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19 Jun 08 App store estimated to be $1.2 billion business by 2009

Information Week has estimated that in by 2009 the Apple app store will be a $1.2 billion business by 2009. Although this is a best case scenario estimate that estimates about 85 million devices, it could be possible that the Apple App Store for iPhone and iPod touch devices could be a billion dollar [...]

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