Posted on October 29th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Apple has apparently instituted a credit card-only policy for iPhone sales at its retail stores in order to guarantee supply for the holidays and frustrate potential resellers, according to multiple reports. Would-be iPhone buyers must now present a credit or debit card if they want to take home an iPhone, and they’re also now limited [...]
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Posted on October 29th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
In our lab tests, Intel’s 45nm Penryn CPU didn’t blow away the previous generation, but the tech behind it should keep Intel ahead. There’s a new high-end desktop chip in town–namely, Intel’s Penryn family of CPUs, which are the first built on a 45nm manufacturing process developed by the chip giant. Our first WorldBench 6 [...]
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Posted on October 15th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
An ATA passenger says he was harassed by a flight attendant, and almost arrested by police, for using an iPhone to watch a movie while on a recent flight to Hawaii. The passenger, who was only identified by his first name Casey, got a scare from ATA flight attendants and the police. The iPhone has [...]
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Posted on October 15th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
An ATA passenger says he was harassed by a flight attendant, and almost arrested by police, for using an iPhone to watch a movie while on a recent flight to Hawaii. The passenger, who was only identified by his first name Casey, got a scare from ATA flight attendants and the police. The iPhone has [...]
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Posted on October 10th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Microsoft has released six security updates for its products, fixing critical flaws in Word, Outlook Express, IE and Windows image viewer. Microsoft today released six security updates for its products, fixing critical flaws in Word, Outlook Express, Internet Explorer (IE) and the Kodak image viewer that ships with Windows. The updates fix nine bugs in [...]
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Posted on October 5th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Faster than a speeding bullet, a pair of hackers who go by the names of “dinopio” and “Edgan” appear to have successfully hacked an iPhone with the 1.1.1 software and firmware upgrade. When is Apple going to give up? The two hackers in question actually live blogged their iPhone hack. Here is a look at [...]
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Posted on October 1st, 2007 by ElectroGeek
You bought the iPhone, you paid for it, but now Apple is telling you how you have to use it, and if you don’t do things they way they say, they’re going to lock it. Turn it into a useless “brick.” Is this any way to treat a customer? Apparently, it’s the Steve Jobs way. [...]
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