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Mobile providers in Japan have indicated a dramatic shift in the numbers of subscribers switching companies. The impact of the iPhone is also answering critics who insisted there would find only limited interest.
According to a report by Japanese tech business journal, Tech-On, SoftBank Mobile, Apple’s exclusive provider of the iPhone, led all other providers in [...]

The Wall Street Journal reports that the iTunes App Store has delivered over 60 million applications to customers in the first month of operations. Jobs commented that while most of those applications were free Apple has sold an average of $1 million a day for a total of $30 million in sales in the first [...]

The IEEE has approved an updated version of the standard IEEE 1394 known to Apple users as Firewire. The standard has been named 1394-2008 and is backwards compatible with all prior Firewire technology. The new standard includes complete specifications for speeds of 1.6 Gigabits/second and 3.2 Gigabits/second. It utilizes the existing Firewire 800 connector.
Firewire 400 devices have become [...]