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A recent report from NPD said that Motorola’s popular RAZR cellphone has finally been overtaken by the Apple iPhone 3G. This is the first time that a market leader such as Motorola has been over shadowed by a more complex smart phone. Apple has reportedly sold more than 10 million iPhone 3Gs around the world in the few months that the phone has been on the market. RIM’s BlackBerry Curve took the third top spot with the LG Rumor and LG enV2 taking fourth and fifth. This is turning out to be a very good year for Apple.

-Ray

[Source: engadget]

Apple is top of the world with their new MacBooks, iPhones and iPods and their record profits this fiscal quarter. Now they’re the number 6 most selling cellphone maker in the United States. Good job Apple. What market will they try and conquer next? Maybe video games perhaps? HDTVs? Cars?! No matter what they make it’s usually always a best seller.

We see that lower-income consumers are increasingly turning to mobile devices to access the Internet, to listen to music and for email,” said Mark Donovan.

-Ray

[Source: iphonealley]

Apple has been raking in the money lately. They’ve done very well with their new MacBooks, iPods and iPhones lately. You would think that only the rich can afford these things. But studies have shown that even lower income consumers are buying Apple iPhones. Almost half of those buying iPhones make less than $25K to $50K.

-Ray

[Source: sfgate]

The Japanese are at it again. To show how much cooler they are than us they’re created a TV tuner for the iPhone. Called the 1Seg it connects to TV stations via Wi-Fi and allows you to watch TV on your iPhone. Pretty cool.

-Ray

[Source: gizmodo]

AT&T recently announced that they will now be offering free Wi-Fi access to their iPhone customers in the U.S. All AT&T hot sports including Starbucks will be open. To access the free Wi-Fi from AT&T for your iPhone follow these steps:

- Activate Wi-Fi from the settings icon on your iPhone
- Select “attwifi” from the list of available networks
- Enter your 10-digit mobile number and check the box to agree to the Acceptable Use Policy. Tap ‘continue’
- You will receive a text message from AT&T with a secure link to the AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot. You will not be charged for the text message.
- The SMS link will only be valid for 24 hours at the location it was requested. Another request must be submitted when using another hotspot location.
- Open the text message and tap on the link for 24-hour access to the AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot

-Ray
[Source: macrumors]

Looks like it is finally going to happen, Microsoft Office is finally going to be coming to the iPhone. No definite release date or pricing has been set of announced, this new app is features the following features.

• View, edit and create native Word, Excel and PowerPoint files and attachments
• Supports Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Includes support for Microsoft Office Word 2007 & PowerPoint 2007
• Full featured solution with viewing AND editing functionality
• Supports file and attachments received via e-mail, Bluetooth® or media card
• Unique InTact Technology retains original document formatting of edited files
• Integrated with BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Internet Service for reliable and instant access to e-mail attachments
• Spell checking for word processing files
• Advanced character/font formatting
• Advanced paragraph formatting
• Insert and delete tables for word processing files
• Insert and edit auto bullets & numbers in word processing files
• Sorting in spreadsheets
• Apply cell formatting in spreadsheets
• Insert and delete worksheets
• Insert, duplicate and delete slides in presentations
• English, French, Italian, German and Spanish versions available

-Ray

[Source: Gizmodo]

This are looking good for Apple, they just reported a very stellar $1.14 billion in profits during their fourth fiscal quarter. Last year they reported only $904 in profits, so that is a 26 percent increase since the previous year. This is good news for Apple in these hard financial times.

…click here for the rest of the story at MacWorld.

-Ray

[Source: MacWorld]