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70% of Zune owners will switch to iPod, iPhone
CIOs Pooh-pooh The iPhone - 'It's no Blackberry'
Apple's Cult Appeal Has A Somewhat Unlikely Predecessor: Harley-Davidson
iPhoneBugList.com Launched
iPhone Activations Bite Into Apple's Stock
Apple Shares Fall on Signs iPhone May Disappoint
CIBC: iPhone Demand Has Seen Significant Decline
Researchers Hack Into iPhone Via Web
Exploiting the iPhone
µTorrent Is Coming To The iPhone
Quanta Mum on iPhone, Dell Smart Phone Orders
70% of Zune owners will switch to iPod, iPhone
MacWorld UK says:
Microsoft recently confirmed it has sold just over a million Zunes - but recent research says most Zune owners rue the day they ever dipped into their pocket to pick one up, with 70 per cent of Zune owners planning to ditch the device in favour of an iPod or iPhone just as soon as they can.
Survey research from the Eagle Research Group shows most Zune owners are displeased, meaning the player has acquired little brand loyalty.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=1&entryid=200
CIOs Pooh-pooh The iPhone - 'It's no Blackberry'
The Register's Cade Metz reports:
Four out for four CIOs agree: the iPhone is no match for the Blackberry. Last night, at an event hosted by Silicon Valley's tech-happy Churchill Club, four high-profile CIOs - representing Google, Hasbro, Levi Strauss, and health care giant McKesson Corp - were asked if they'd carry an iPhone for business purposes, and all four said "No."
Meanwhile, three of the four said they won't let their employees carry Apple's latest status symbol - at least, not in an official business capacity.
The lone dissenter was Google vice president of engineering Douglas Merrill, who likes to play up the company's anything-goes attitude......
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/24/cios_badmouth_iphone/
Apple's Cult Appeal Has A Somewhat Unlikely Predecessor: Harley-Davidson
InfoWorld's Ephraim Schwartz says:
In an attempt to explain the phenomenon that is Apple and why it has such a loyal following, I thought I would take a look at a company that achieved that haloed status first, by about 80 years. It's one of the few that can claim a similar kind of loyalty among its customers: Harley-Davidson Motorcycles.
Aside from the fact that hardly anyone gets the Apple logo tattooed onto their body, both companies have a lot in common.
One of the more curious similarities that Harley and Apple share is the fact that both have a charismatic leader whose roots go back to the company's founding and who, after losing the company, took it back from the philistines.
In Harley-Davidson's case, it was Willy Davidson, grandson of the founder, who became part of the group that bought the company back from bowling ball company AMF. In the case of Apple, of course, it was Steve Jobs, once ousted by his own board of directors but who returned in triumph as CEO.
The similarities don't end there.
For the full commentary visit here:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/realitycheck/archives/2007/07/macs_and_motorc.html
iPhoneBugList.com Launched
iPhoneBugList.com says:
Welcome to iPhoneBugList.com.
We hope you find this a useful method to see the outstanding issues and requests for the iPhone. It is wide open without the need for registration. Please do not abuse it. This is a brand new site (registered domain: 2007-07-19 21:00:14 - all images/code/database created since then from scratch - by two people) and it is getting worked on as you view it. Still adding features and help. Currently users are unable to increment popularity. They are also not able to close bugs.
You can check it out at:
http://www.iphonebuglist.com/
iPhone Activations Bite Into Apple's Stock
CNNMoney.com's Keisha Lamothe reports:
Apple's stock sank more than 6 percent Tuesday after AT&T reported that it activated 146,000 iPhones during the first two days the device was available, far fewer than analysts had anticipated.
The number of activations reported by Apple's sole wireless provider surprised many because analysts had forecast actual sales of the touchscreen phone to be around 500,000 to 700,000 during the first weekend of its release.
For the full report visit here:
http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/24/technology/apple/index.htm?section=money_latest
Apple Shares Fall on Signs iPhone May Disappoint
Bloomberg's Jeff Kearns reports:
Apple Inc. shares fell the most in six months after analysts said demand may be slowing for the iPhone, which Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs expects to become the company's third major business.
Piper Jaffray & Co. analyst Gene Munster, whose June 2004 recommendation to buy Apple stock preceded a 761 percent rally in the shares, said iPhone sales may disappoint some. While Apple probably sold about 200,000 iPhones in its first two days, it may have missed some analysts' estimates of up to 500,000, according to Munster, who said Apple sales met his expectations....
UBS AG said iPhone sales for the two-day period were ``likely much higher'' than the number of activations AT&T reported and that investors should ``not overreact.''
For the full report visit here:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601084&sid=ax.hPmAHKRqc&refer=stocks
CIBC: iPhone Demand Has Seen Significant Decline
Seeking Alpha reports:
Notable Calls submits: CIBC's Ittai Kidron is out with monster call on Apple saying based on their store checks, they believe that demand for the iPhone has seen a significant decline in the past 10 days. CIBC has noticed decent inventories at stores, and thin demand at best. In fact, most Apple store visitors were not looking at the device and only a very small subset bought it.
For the full report visit here:
http://ce.seekingalpha.com/article/42050?source=feed
Researchers Hack Into iPhone Via Web
AP Technology Writer Peter Svensson reports:
Hackers could take control of an iPhone if its owner visits a doctored Web site or Internet hotspot, security researchers reported Monday.
The vulnerability of the vaunted device, Apple Inc.'s first cell phone, is only theoretical for now. There are no reports of criminals actually taking advantage of the security glitch to remotely access an iPhone.
But if it were exploited, hijacked iPhones could be very useful to the same gangs that take over personal computers and use them to disseminate spam, said Charlie Miller, principal security analyst at Independent Security Evaluators, which discovered the flaw.
For the full report click here.
Exploiting the iPhone
securityevaluators.com says:
• full disclosure at blackhat: dr. charlie miller will be presenting the details of the exploit at blackhat in las vegas on august 2 at 4:45.
• preliminary technical paper: a preliminary version of the paper describing the attack is available. the full version with details of the vulnerability and exploit will be available in the evening on august 2nd.
shortly after the iphone was released, a group of security researchers at independent security evaluators decided to investigate how hard it would be for a remote adversary to compromise the private information stored on the device. within two weeks of part time work, we had successfully discovered a vulnerability, developed a toolchain for working with the iphone's architecture (which also includes some tools from the #iphone-dev community), and created a proof-of-concept exploit capable of delivering files from the user's iphone to a remote attacker. we have notified apple of the vulnerability and proposed a patch. apple is currently looking into it.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.securityevaluators.com/iphone/
µTorrent Is Coming To The iPhone
newteevee.com reports:
Mobile P2P has been the subject of much speculation over the years. People were supposed to swap video clips straight from phone to phone, surrounding themselves with mobile sharing clouds and downloading movies and TV shows on the go with the speed of BitTorrent.<IMG>uTorrent mUI
Not a whole lot of that has ever materialized. Take the iPhone for example. Sure, you can watch movies on the device, but you can't swap them, thanks to Apple's ban of third-party apps.
But the fact that you can't install any code on the iPhone doesn't stop true P2P aficionados . A web app to be unveiled tomorrow will allow users to turn their iPhone — or any mobile phone with a browser for that matter — into a remote control for the popular Windows BitTorrent client µTorrent.
For the full report visit here:
http://newteevee.com/2007/07/24/%c2%b5torrent-is-coming-to-the-iphone/
Quanta Mum on iPhone, Dell Smart Phone Orders
IDG News Service's Dan Nystedt reports:
Quanta Computer Inc., the world's largest contract laptop PC maker, is reportedly gearing up to make iPhones for Apple Inc. and a new smartphone for Dell Inc., but the company isn't talking.
The Economic Daily News, a Chinese-language newspaper in Taiwan, reported that Quanta is already slated to become an iPhone assembler, the second Taiwanese company behind Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd., to build the handsets for Apple. Quanta is also working on a new smartphone for Dell, the newspaper reported, without citing a source for the information.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135002-c,companynews/article.html
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