Apple & Mac Daily News Digest

All Apple Stores are back online, and the Apple Store USA offers now to pre-order the iPad: It remains unclear today if this pre-order system will be also available in Europe in few weeks.

This is a rather hot topic, as many EU customers are already complaining about the higher price of Mac on this side of the Atlantic, when compared to USA; especially considering that we are closer to the assembling lines located in China… The way our Mac get more expensive might not only be associated with [...]

We have reported in the past about those unfortunate iPhone owners who received invoices for having used data abroad without noticing the roaming cost and outrageous , while being out side Europe or in Europe, with figures usually reaching dozens of thousand euro. This was almost unfortunate as users forgot to switch off an option [...]

Apple’s rivals have launch a flurry of broadsides against the iTunes App Store at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week. Twenty-four wireless carriers around the world, supported by major smartphone manufacturers, teamed up to build an open app platform through their new organization, the Wholesale Applications Community. Meanwhile, the Joint Innovation Lab, whose [...]

Nokia and Intel announced the merger of their Linux-based platforms, respectively Maemo and Moblin, to create an unique one named Meego. Both partners have interest in such agreement as Nokia will start having support from the hardware side, while Intel will find a way to increase penetration of its CPU and hardware solution in mobile [...]

With the explosion of wireless data transfer with the release of the iPhone, carriers have to invest and upgrade their network at a light speed rate to provide the expected customer experience and reliability of the entire network. An analyst from TownHall Investment Research, Gerard Hallaren, indicates  that AT&T is investing disproportionately in its wired [...]

An executive with wireless operator France Telecom suggested in an interview Monday that Apple will soon release a tablet equipped with a Web cam, and Orange customers across Europe will be able to use the device.

In mid-October, it was reported that Apple’s Safari for Windows browser was slated to receive prominent placement on a “browser ballot” designed to allow Windows users in Europe to select which Internet browser they wished to use. The ballot process …

So, if Apple can use manufacturing plants in China to produce most of its products today, generating huge margins, the company is struggling to give the iPhone the success encountered in the rest of the world. According to the latest news, China Unicom only sold 5 units via its website within the first two weeks following [...]

Thanks to Cyril  à Cyril to remind us that thanks to time zones, the Apple Store Black Friday is already running in New Zealand. The Offer are the following: As one should have expect it, nothing amazing. Apple offers around 8-10% on iMac, Apple TV and MacBook models, and about even less on iPod models. A [...]

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