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Apple Hires Wireless Payment Guru, Prepare for iPhone Credit Cards


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Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 1:57 p.m.
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Apple's hired an expert in near-field communications to be its new product manager for mobile commerce. This is big news, in ways you may not immediately grasp: Propelled by Apple's cachet and iPhone's appeal, wireless payment tech may now be about to sweep over the world ... The man in question is Benjamin Vigier, who's been working in near-field comms (NFC) since at least 2004. In previous roles at flash memory firm Sandisk and Bouygues Telecom in France he worked on NFC tasks, and while at

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New iPhone, iPad model codes set up for iTunes activation bypass -- CDMA versions, maybe?


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Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 1:51 p.m.
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So BGR 's got a tipster lined up with alleged details from within iOS 4 beta firmware that shows a section dedicated to bypassing the usual iTunes activation scheme for three new product codes: iPhone3,2, iPhone 3,3, and iProd 2,1. Actually, these product codes aren't "new," per se; we saw all three of them in the iPad's firmware back in April, but they've yet to make the giant leap to officialdom. What's different here, then? Well, apparently, this activation-bypass scheme has historically had

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Intel's Biggest Rival: ARM Chips in Servers and Smartphones


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Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 1:44 p.m.
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Forget Intel versus AMD--that was a chip-maker battle of yesteryear, played out inside your desktop PC. Now the real CPU war is happening inside smartphones and servers, where Intel is playing a desperate game of catch-up to ARM and a few new pretenders, and there're billions of dollars at stake ... Server chip maker Smooth-Stone has just raised $48 million of venture cash to fund development of ARM-based server chips. The 12-man company is just two years old, but its bold plans to challenge

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Will the iPhone Become Your iWallet?


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Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 1:31 p.m.
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Recent moves by Apple hint at future iPhones gaining a built-in mobile payment system that could serve as the alternative to the credit card ...

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Sony PSP Ad Mocks Apple iPhone Gaming [Trash Talk]


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Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 1:00 p.m.
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Apple has taken shots at the DS and PSP. The iPhone has more games, they say. Sony fires back with this ad, basically saying, yeah, but our games are better ... More » ...

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Adobe Is Totally Over Apple, They Swear [Blockquote]


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Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 11:38 a.m.
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Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen wanted to work with Apple, he really did. But Apple didn't want to work with them. These things happen! ... More » ...

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MoMA iPhone App Puts a Museum in Your Pocket [IPhone Apps]


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Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 11:20 a.m.
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The Museum of Modern Art in NYC is one of the best museums in the world, but it can be a little overwhelming. But the new MoMA iPhone app should make visiting a more manageable experience ... More » ...

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iOS 4 Code Suggests That a Verizon iPhone and an iPad 2 Are Being Field-Tested [Unconfirmed]


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Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 11:17 a.m.
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A clever tipster pointed the folks at BGR to something rather curious hidden within iOS 4: A block of code which allows a CDMA iPhone or iPad 2 to be activated automatically without iTunes ... More » ...

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Both Verizon Wireless iPhone and next generation iPad about to hit field testing?


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Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 11:02 a.m.

One of our Apple sources has just informed us of something very interesting. Way down deep within iOS 4 is a pretty intriguing block of code. Our source says that the code queries the device, and if the device is either a… ...

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iPhone 4 pre-orders about to begin in South Korea


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Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 11:00 a.m.
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The iPhone 3G sold tremendously well in South Korea, and now distributor KT Corporation is hoping the latest model will do the same when pre-orders begin on Wednesday. "We hope the iPhone 4 will draw a hot response from clients as the iPhone 3 did," a KT Corp. rep said on Monday, noting that the iPhone 4 should be available in South Korea in September ... When iPhone 3G pre-sales began in South Korea, KT Corp. received approximately 65,000 pre-orders. On the day of release, customers had been

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