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Is Google stealing some of Apple’s iPhone thunder?
Google’s Android operating system edged out Apple’s iPhone operating system for the No. 2 spot in the U.S. consumer smartphone market in the first quarter, according to research firm NPD Group.
According to NPD, devices running Android accounted for 28 percent of the units sold to U.S. consumers in the first quarter of 2010. BlackBerry devices made by Research In Motion, which use RIM’s homegrown operating system, took the top spot with 36 percent of the U.S. market. Apple’s iPhone, which had been in the No. 2 spot previously, fell to third place with 21 percent of the market.

A European developer of iPhone software has suggested Apple may be blocking the delivery of push notifications to iPhones that have been unofficially unlocked.
Czech Republic based PoweryBase, developer of the top-selling NotifyMe reminder application for the iPhone, thinks Apple may be blocking the delivery of push messages to iPhones that have been unofficially modified.
The company [...]

The iPhone 3.0 update promises 100 features and enhancements for users, including copy-and-paste functionality and push notification
 
As promised during last week’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple on Wednesday released the iPhone 3.0 software update, a major overhaul of its mobile operating system that promises more than 100 new features and enhancements.

AppleInsider is suggesting that the long awaited iPhone 3G with 32GB of storage could soon be making an appearance, due to apparent shortages of the 8GB model – while in-home activation could well be making a re-appearance. 
Rumours here, rumours there, rumours popping up everywhere – and the latest from AppleInsider is that the [...]

Apple has updated iTunes to version 7.7.1. The release comes hot on the heels of iTunes 7.7, which appeared alongside the iPhone 3G earlier this month.
iTunes 7.7.1 is available for Mac OS X and Windows. As usual, Apple is being coy about what the update delivers, saying only that it “includes fixes to improve stability [...]

Quarter after quarter, Apple seems to roll out its strategy of under-promising and then ultimately over-delivering. In Tuesday’s edition of the Daily Debrief, CNET News reporters Kara Tsuboi and Tom Krazit discuss the Q2 earnings report and what product revisions Apple will release in the second half of 2008. Here’s a hint: hold off on [...]

Just four days after its launch, the iPhone 3G has been unlocked for the first time exactly like the original iPhone: using a special card that piggybacks to your SIM card, fooling the phone into thinking it’s using an official carrier. While this is not the software unlock being developed by the usual suspects, the [...]

Move over Psystar - the EFiX development team claims to have created a USB device that allows the installation and use of Mac OS X on non-Apple PCs. What’s more, it is supposed to enable users to to install Mac OS X straight out of the box!
According to the EFiX website, “It allows its user [...]

Apple seems certain to unveil a new iPhone at a developer conference in San Francisco on June 9 - but how will it differ from its predecessor?
It seems, at times, as though Steve Jobs has an impossible job. Within days of the iPhone going on sale, technology fans and gadget geeks were already speculating what [...]

The new powerful iMac 2008 now runs at speeds up to 3.06GHz! More powerful Intel Core 2 Duo processors, more memory, and a striking mixture of OS X Leopard and iLife ’08!