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  • News: iPhone: 500,000 sales & counting

    Apple has sold 525,000 iPhones since the product's US launch last Friday, Reuters reports.

  • News: Is AMD's Barcelona delayed?

    AMD insisted it would begin shipping its ‘Barcelona’ quad-core Opteron processor in August, rebutting industry rumours that the chip faced manufacturing problems that could delay it until October.

  • News: Microsoft's PDF rival to become a standard

    Standards body Ecma International has formed a technical committee to develop a standard built on Microsoft's XML Paper Specification (XPS), a rival file format to Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF).

  • News: First look: Hands-on with the iPhone

    Does the Apple iPhone live up to the hype? Of course it doesn't - it couldn't possibly. As David Platt, a computer science professor at Harvard University, remarked to Reuters: "God himself could not design a device that could live up to all the hype."

  • News: Tackling the iPhone mob

    As 6:00pm approached on Friday, the mob in front of the Apple's flagship San Francisco store counted down the seconds as if it was New Year's Eve.

  • News: Hackers could unlock iPhone today

    Now that Apple's iPhone is finally on sale, the race is on to see who can unlock it. Locked phones can only be used with the mobile service from one carrier, a move designed to guarantee carriers recover the cost of subsidising a handset through monthly service charges. But the cost of the iPhone, which is priced at either $499 (£250) or $599 (£300) depending on the model, is not subsidised by AT&T.

  • News: The iPhone killers: best products of 2007

    Apple’s iPhone is the most highly anticipated tech gadget of the year, but David Haskin believes it’s distracted us from other hot new products launched in the first half of 2007

  • News: Vodafone to launch iPhone in Europe?

    Investment bank Credit Suisse claims Vodafone is one of the favourites to be network operator for the iPhone in Europe.

  • News: Microsoft solves iPhone email flaw

    An update to Exchange 2007 released by Microsoft should solve problems that may have prevented mail from Exchange Server 2007 from being received by Apple’s iPhone.

  • News: New Storm Trojan targets inboxes

    A new round of greeting card spam that draws users to attack sites relies on a sophisticated multi-pronged, multi-exploit strike force to infect machines, security professionals said late last night.

  • News: RIM says iPhone fever is helping Blackberry

    BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) announced record high subscriber growth and strong device shipments in its first quarter, a sign that some users aren't putting off smartphone purchases ahead of today's iPhone launch.

  • News: Chinese whispers over iPhone release

    Americans aren't the only ones going crazy over news about Apple's iPhone. The impending launch of the phone tops technology news headlines in China today, hours before the handset was due to hit store shelves in the US.

  • News: iPhone supply concerns Apple boss

    The number of iPhones manufactured by Apple may not be enough to meet customer demand when the smart phone goes on sale in the US today, CEO Steve Jobs has revealed.

  • News: Intel ships 1m quad-core chips

    Intel has shipped more than 1 million quad-core Xeon 5300 microprocessors since introducing them in November 2006, meeting a goal announced by company executives earlier this year.

  • News: No web access for UK small businesses

    Two thirds of UK small businesses are still working without any internet connection, email or website, new research has revealed.

  • News: Microsoft files 23 lawsuits against pirates

    Microsoft has filed lawsuits against 23 companies in California and Florida, alleging distribution of counterfeit software.

  • News: State drops HP spying scandal case

    A state judge in California has dismissed charges against the three remaining state criminal defendants in the HP spying case.

  • News: iPhone accessory buyers' guide

    With the hype surrounding the iPhone reaching critical mass on June 29 in the US, Apple wants to ensure third-party vendors sell accessories engineered to work properly with its multimedia mobile phone.

  • News: iPhone customer service already in spotlight

    The US publication that rates and evaluates everything from mattresses to cars to washing machines points out in a press release that for "several years running AT&T...has been among the least-satisfying service providers. This is according to Consumer Reports' annual customer satisfaction surveys.

  • News: Interview: AMD exec opens up on Barcelona

    AMD is getting ready to launch Barcelona, its first quad-core server chip. A successful Barcelona launch, expected to happen during the third quarter, is critical for AMD, which has seen its share of the server market battered in recent quarters by Intel. Those market-share losses came with a heavy price, dragging AMD's finances into the red. In April, the company announced a $611m loss, largely attributed to tougher competition and a price war with Intel.