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iPhone to Integrate YouTube Access

While it’s unknown as to whether the iPhone will walk the dog or consistently predict tomorrow’s winning lottery numbers, it will be able to access YouTube content. According to cnet’s Crave blog, the upcoming cell phone will feature “a special YouTube player that you can launch right from the home screen.” Leaked photos have also […]

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iPhone Killer App

The killer app for the iPod was iTunes. The killer app for the iPhone is Safari. The iPhone will be first and foremost a web browsing machine. How can that be? It uses the lame Edge network to connect! OK. What does the iPhone do best? Its the screen baby. The whole face of the […]

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Palm Hires Former Apple Engineer in Bid to Compete With iPhone

Palm Inc., the maker of hand-held computers, has hired a top Silicon Valley software designer as it seeks to respond to the challenge posed by Apple’s new iPhone. The designer, Paul Mercer, a former Apple computer engineer, began work three weeks ago at Palm on a line of new products, a company spokeswoman said, but […]

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Apple Airs iPhone Commercial During Oscars

Apple justed aired their first television commercial for iPhone on the ABC network during the Oscars. The iPhone ad can be found here. PowerPage reader Arthur Greenwald lists all the actors in order. I’m sure of all but about three of them…. can anyone fill in the blanks for #10, 11 and 16? 1. Lucille […]

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Japan far Ahead in Reinventing use of Cell Phones

As stock markets swooned and techies buzzed over Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs’ long-awaited entry into the mobile-phone market, Japanese consumers could be excused for wondering: Why the fuss?