Apple’s iPhone is now is moving to China: In the latest in a long series of international iPhone distribution deals, mobile operator Hutchison said today that it has a deal to sell Apple’s phones in Hong Kong and Macau later this year. Meanwhile, Apple plans to start selling its iTunes movie downloads/rentals in more countries [...]

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Apple has filed a patent for integrating solar cells into portable devices by placing them beneath the layers of a touch-sensitive display, according to the filing. Solar power could help make devices truly portable, freeing from the need for wires to connect them to a power supply. When generating electricity from solar panels, the larger [...]

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Apple continues its aggressive iPhone distribution expansion, with several Scandinavian countries on the schedule now to get the desirable smartphone. On Tuesday, operator TeliaSonera announced that it will sell Apple’s iPhone in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. No pricing information was released, and TeliaSonera only said availability would be sometime “later this [...]

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On Tuesday, the Rural Cellular Association, a group of more than 80 small and rural wireless providers, filed a petition with the FCC to investigate and adopt rules that would prohibit exclusivity arrangements between wireless carriers and cell phone manufacturers. In its petition the group said that these arrangements were unfair and stifled customer choice. [...]

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iPhone fever is mounting after confirmation from Apple’s exclusive mobile phone partner in the UK and Ireland that a joint announcement will be made “in the coming weeks”. Speaking at the announcement of O2′s first-quarter results, Matthew Key, chairman and chief executive of O2-owner Telefónica Europe, refused to give an exact availability date for the [...]

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Apple has released lawyers on at least one trader flogging Iphone lookie-likies in Europe. A cease and desist order has been placed on an undisclosed Ebay trader who has been selling a Chinese clone, named the Hiphone. The device bears a remarkable resemblance to Apple’s massively popular handset, both in the physical tooling of the [...]

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A woman whose apartment was burglarized solved the crime herself after she was able to log on to her stolen laptop, photograph one of the suspects with it and get photos of another, police said. The two suspects were picked up at their homes Wednesday night after the victim turned the pictures over to police. [...]

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After huge price cuts, Apple’s 8-gig iPhone is now sold out in the U.K. from carrier partner O2, and both the 8- and 16-gig models are out of stock at retail partner Carphone Warehouse. (O2 just replenished its supply of 16-gig iPhones. Britons who still want to buy one of Apple’s phones before the faster, [...]

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Word has it that, following an internal message to all AT&T Mobility employees encouraging them to refrain from taking leave between June 15 and July 12, this will be the anticipated hard selling period for the new Apple 3G iPhone. Apparently a similar message went out when the first iPhone hit the markets. We will [...]

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Vodafone today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten of its markets around the globe. Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey will be able to purchase the iPhone for use on the Vodafone [...]

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