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You’re counting the days, ain’t ‘ya?  In just a few short weeks, you’ll have that shiny new iPhone, all tricked out with the latest 3G technology.  Oh, yes… you’ll be blazing through the Internet at screaming near-broadband speed.  Or will you? I was cruising through the AT&T website, and stumbled across the 3G vs. Edge [...]

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Apple Zombies around the world are awaiting the Big Day, July 11th.  That’s the day when the new iPhone, the one that operates G3 and has other enhancements, makes its entry into the market.  That day, people will line up to replace the iPhones they bought just months ago with the newest, shiniest object from [...]

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So, now we know a firm date on the new iPhone, the race is on. New BlackBerry vs. iPhone… which hits stores first? July 11th will see the minions of Apple Zombies lining up for their latest fix of brains – and a new toy. But the exact date for the new BlackBerry is less [...]

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Apple Zombies unite! Camp out in line. Lie to the wife. Whatever! July 11th – the day before my birthday – the new iPhone is out! Slimmer, faster, better, or so Steve tells us. The new phone will boast G3 technology, better browsing, and promised longer battery life – hopefully enough to satisfy the hungriest [...]

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Eddie Izzard, the brilliant, executive transvestite comedian played the Orpheum here in Memphis last night on his “Stripped” tour. The sold-out show was insightful, irreverent, and just plain funny – the sort of show one expects from Izzard. What I wasn’t expecting was to find out that Eddie may be an Apple Zombie. He, too, [...]

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Imagine. You’re young. You’re bored. You’re an Apple Zombie. And, you have no place to go. Sadly, that seems to be the predicament for two Bay-area teens, Daniel Fukuba, 17, and Eric Vicenti, 16. According to these brain munchers, they have been banned from the Palo Alto Apple Store for downloading third-party software onto an [...]

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I am an Apple Zombie, a brain-numbed follower of all things that come from Cupertino. So, I should be carrying an iPhone, right? Well, not so fast. I have written extensively about my iPod Touch, the entertainment device, identical to the iPhone, without the phone. So, before deciding on a smart phone, I became quite [...]

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You know…  it’s tough to be Bill Gates.  You think the iPhone is really cool, but, alas, carrying one around the party circuit in Seattle just wouldn’t be cool, now would it?  So, what’s a multi-billionaire to do?  Make your own! At the “D: All Things Digital” conference on the West Coast, current MicroSoft CEO, [...]

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Believe the hype. Apple’s movie rental announcement is a game changer for the maligned Apple TV, which should finally get some traction after a rough start. We don’t know yet whether the studios will stock huge catalogs of movies, but the iTunes Store-Apple TV-movie rental ecosystem is ready for its close-up. A brief history of [...]

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Tech analyst Forrester Research, which in May predicted Apple TV sales this year of one million units, says Apple has sold only 400,000 and will be lucky to sell another 400,000 before the end of the year. The report says Apple TV’s sales forecast tracks about the same as the GarageBand loop library CD-ROMs. Ouch! [...]

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Philip Elmer-Dewitt has an interesting piece in his Apple 2.0 blog this morning that traces Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman, Jr.’s assimilation into the borg warming attitude toward Apple’s iTunes Store. Bronfman gave a speech two days ago to the GMSA Mobile Asia Congress about the future of ringtone and music download revenue for [...]

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