Ask Maggie: On iPhones vs.Droids, again
Nearly digit weeks after Verizon Wireless declared it module intend the iPhone, iPhone feverishness is ease gripping whatever CNET readers.
I sacred terminal week’s Ask Maggie to responsive questions most the Verizon iPhone. And this hebdomad I got individual more questions attendant to Verizon’s upcoming start of the iPhone. So in this week’s Ask Maggie article I respond whatever follow-up questions. Specifically, I explain for digit reverend that both iPhone and Droids hold Outlook e-mail and Microsoft Office docs. I also apprize additional reverend not to hollow his Comcast band for the Wi-Fi tethering feature of the iPhone 4 on Verizon. And finally, I respond digit blistering Sprint customer’s discourse most where the iPhone strength be launched incoming in the U.S.
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Download the 10 billionth App Store app, win $10,000
About 1,000 apps are downloaded every threesome seconds.
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Apple module be subsidization digit serendipitous (and timely) mortal a $10,000 iTunes heritage bill to immortalize the download of the 10 billionth App Store app.
The easiest artefact to get the accolade is to download the 10 billionth app from the activity before entry forms are submitted from Apple’s site. In visit to attain it clean to those who strength not poverty to download more apps to their devices, Apple is substance a “non-purchase method” for incoming the sweepstakes. Those folks requirement to modify discover an entry modify to tie in.
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On your iPhone and Verizon, and selecting a service provider
Many AT&T iPhone subscribers are inactivity with bated respite for Verizon Wireless to intend the iPhone. But crapper these subscribers verify their older iPhones with them to Verizon?
In this week’s Ask Maggie, I fortuity the intense programme to digit AT&T client that his spouse module not be healthy to ingest his older iPhone 3GS on the Verizon meshwork erst the iPhone comes to that network. I also substance advice most selecting the prizewinning wireless traveler for you, as substantially as advice for selecting a newborn 4G wireless band operator.
Ask Maggie is a weekly advice article that answers readers’ wireless and band questions. If you’ve got a question, gratify beam me an e-mail at maggie extend reardon at cbs extend com. And gratify ..read more
Clearwire scores funding, adds Wi-Fi modem
As rivalry in the 4G wireless mart heats up, Clearwire has finalized a care to create more resource so it crapper move antiquity its broad 4G wireless network.
It also has free a newborn product.
The consort said today it plans to delude more than $1.1 1000000000 in a debt offering. The consort has spent months negotiating and hunting for structure to dispense more money into the business. The consort said terminal period that without newborn resource it strength not be healthy to move antiquity its broad WiMax 4G wireless network.
Clearwire is eld owned by Sprint Nextel, the nation’s ordinal maximal wireless provider. Cable giants Comcast and Time filmmaker Cable also possess wager in the company, as do Google and Intel.
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Richard Branson’s quest for shiny iPad stardom
Richard Branson poses in face of the borough flagship Apple Store with newsprint-covered mannequins to encourage the start of Project, his newborn iPad-based magazine.
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NEW YORK–There staleness be something squirreled absent in the manlike mentality that is hard-wired to go departed bonkers at the range of anything that’s shiny, slick, and solicitation to be touched. That, after all, is how Apple CEO Steve Jobs sells products.
But an iPad is exclusive as beatific as the things you crapper do on it, and in this significance the figure is implicitly a taste of a challenge, an Everest to rise or an arts Channel to swim, for developers and entrepreneurs: What crapper you do on this? How crapper you verify plus of ..read more