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Apple's iPod Linked to iCrime Wave
Volume-Limiting Earbuds: Safer Sound for iPod Headbangers
iPhone Epidemic?
iPod Nano Third-generation Review
Orange and Apple still arguing iPhone details
Autumn Musings: iPhone's European Tour
Apple Posts iPhone Update, Bricks Unlocked Handsets
Apple's iPod Linked to iCrime Wave
InformationWeek's Thomas Claburn reports:
The popularity of the iPod and other portable media devices has driven the robbery rate higher, according to a report issued on Thursday by the Urban Institute, a non-profit policy research organization based in Washington, D.C.
Citing FBI statistics, the report notes that violent crime increased for the first time in over a decade in 2005 and in 2006. Homicides and robberies rose while other violent crimes like rape and aggravated assaults, along with all types of property crime, continued to trend downward.
"In this brief, we propose that the rise in violent offending and the explosion in the sales of iPods and other portable media devices is more than coincidental," the report says. "We propose that over the past two years, America may have experienced an iCrime wave."
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Volume-Limiting Earbuds: Safer Sound for iPod Headbangers
New Hampshire Business Review's Cindy Kibbe
Founded in March 2006, Ingemi's iHearSafe earbuds look like any standard pair of earbuds with two small earphones that fit snuggly in the ears - but with one difference. A small volume-reducing circuit is placed in the length of the earbud wire that prevents sounds from exceeding 85 decibels - about the level of city traffic - but still allows ambient sounds through.....
Founded in March 2006, Ingemi's iHearSafe earbuds look like any standard pair of earbuds with two small earphones that fit snuggly in the ears - but with one difference. A small volume-reducing circuit is placed in the length of the earbud wire that prevents sounds from exceeding 85 decibels - about the level of city traffic - but still allows ambient sounds through.
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iPhone Epidemic?
Newsweek International's Emily Flynn Vencat reports:
The phenomenal visibility of Apple's iPhone may spell the end of the cell-phone industry's age of innocence. Mobiles have been largely immune to the viruses and other "malware" now inflicted on PCs at the rate of 15,000 per day (up from five per month in 1990). So far, there has yet to be a major cell-phone virus.
Security experts worry, however, that all the excitement surrounding Apple's newest device will work on hackers like a red rag to a bull.....
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21047572/site/newsweek/
iPod Nano Third-generation Review
The Register's Scott Snowden
Earlier this month, Apple announced the newest embodiments of various iPod lines. The new iPod, the Classic, doesn't look substantially different from its predecessor. The new Nano, which supersedes the second generation product is - on the other hand - a complete revamp.
What you'll notice straight away is its shape: it's a little shorter and much wider than its predecessor. Both the 4GB and 8GB configurations are identical in terms of dimensions - 6.9 x 5.2 x 0.7cm - so it is thinner than the older model, but at 49.2g, weighs a fraction more.
The reason for this change in design is a LCD: now at 2in with a 320 x 240 resolution, a 204 pixels per inch density and with an effective blue-white LED backlight.
For the full review visit here:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/09/28/review_apple_ipod_nano/
Orange and Apple still arguing iPhone details
The Register's Bill Ray reports:
Orange's exclusive deal to distribute the iPhone in France may not be as solid as claimed, with the handset strangely absent at the Apple Expo in Paris, and a French newspaper reporting that the revenue share details are still under discussion.
The Challenges website reports (in French) that Orange's exclusive is far from a done deal, with the companies still in discussions over how large Apple's pound of flesh will be.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/28/apple_orange_spat/
Autumn Musings: iPhone's European Tour
PowerPage reports:
Steve Jobs and his pals are enjoying a late September marketing tour, first UK, then Germany and now Apple expo in Paris. They are the darlings of daily European newspapers (iPhone is always guaranteed a spot) and are bullish and in fine fettle too. In the UK Steve cracked his joke about dating many girlfriends and picking just one wife in each country. These are heady days for the new Apple Inc. Despite an amazing interface that has blown away the competition, iPhone is going to have to play catch up with itselfâ€"especially in Europe with pools of users already hugging their 3G phones.
The are, to my mind, two big bridges for Apple to cross: 2G or not 2G and the question of the removable battery.
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http://www.powerpage.org/2007/09/autumn_musings_iphones_eurpean_tour.html#013129
Apple Posts iPhone Update, Bricks Unlocked Handsets
The Register's Tony Smith
Apple has posted the anticipated iPhone 1.1.1 update. The release, which adds support for the Wi-Fi connect iTunes Music Store, does indeed, as expected, returns unlocked handsets back to their AT&T-only status.
And then some: even re-inserted AT&T SIMs appear not to be accepted by an updated iPhone, preventing users accessing even the device's iPod features.
Not that this should surprise anyone. Apple said as much earlier this week, and even if it hadn't, so involved is the unlocking process, any firmware update was almost certainly going to re-lock the phone.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/09/28/apple_updates_iphone/
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