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Archives for March, 2010

Rumored iPhone OS multitasking would use Exposé-like feature

Details continue to emerge over supposed multitasking support in an upcoming major release of the iPhone OS. According to AppleInsider, sources “familiar with the situation” have allegedly confirmed that the change is coming in iPhone OS 4.0, allowing users to run multiple applications simultaneously and easily switch between them. The addition of multitasking support would put …

Kleiner Perkins Bets The iPad Is ‘Magic’; Doubles iFund To $200 Million

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of the iPhone’s biggest and earliest supporters, is doubling the size of its iFund to $200 million. The specialized venture capital fund, which was founded two years ago with the launch of the original iPhone, will now make investments in start-ups based on Apple’s family of products including the …

AT&T Says It Schooled Apple on iPhone Networking

AT&T has taken a lot of heat from iPhone customers complaining about network performance, but the carrier insinuated in an article today that Apple was partly at fault as well. AT&T executives visited Apple last year to provide Apple engineers a “crash course” in wireless networking to reduce the load that iPhones were putting out …

iPad EULA doesn’t mandate paid OS upgrades

The iPad is set to launch this Saturday. In preparation for the launch, Apple has already posted two related files to its download servers: the final iPad firmware and its EULA. Based on some language in the EULA it has been widely reported that the iPad will require users to pay for OS upgrades like …

AT&T To iPhone Users: Our Network Is Good Now, Please Don’t Sign Up With Verizon

This time the rumors that the iPhone will be sold by Verizon Wireless sometime around the end of the year must be true. On Monday, anonymous sources told the Wall Street Journal that there were two new iPhones in the works, including one for the Verizon Wireless network. Now, there’s additional unnamed people leaking information …

Barclay’s Anmuth: Google Should Worry About Its iPhone Perch

In the short term, Google’s likely to remain as the default search option on Apple’s devices, Barclays analyst Doug Anmuth says in a research note, but that doesn’t mean the search giant can afford to take that for granted. With all eyes are focused on Apple’s iPad debut on Saturday, there has been some speculation …