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Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs announces the new Apple iPhone 3G during the keynote speech at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Monday, June 9. Jobs announced innovations to the Mac OS X Leopard operating system and an enhanced iPhone.
By PETER SVENSSON AP Technology Writer NEW YORK — This is a review of the 3G iPhone. No, not the one Apple announcedrecently. The other one. You know — the one from Sprint and Samsung? Amid the buzz surrounding Apple Inc.’s new iPhone model, coming out July 11, it’s been easy to miss the news that Sprint Nextel Corp. brought out a phone on June 20 that is the closest thing so far to an iPhone made by someone else. The Samsung Instinct is, like the real iPhone, a slab with a large touch screen and few buttons. There are other touch-screen alternatives, but the Instinct’s the only one that does what the iPhone does: wrap a wealth of features into a package that’s easy to use. This is a remarkable achievement, mostly on Sprint’s part. The hardware, made by Samsung Electronics Co., is available overseas. Sprint commissioned its own software to run on it, working very closely with an outside design house on its development. The result is a lucid, logical interface. It’s not as p
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BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — The European Commission is aiming for one-fourth of businesses, public authorities and households in the European Union to use next-generation Internet addresses by 2010 because the current system is running out of addresses
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BOSTON — A new service named Foneshow offers a quick and easy way to access the downloadable radio shows known as podcasts. Instead of synching your music player to a PC to get audio clips that interest you, Foneshow lets you listen to podcasts on d
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Carnegie Mellon University researchers hope Web surfers will spend their free time playing Internet-based games to help other people’s and businesses’ computers get smarter.
On Wednesday, the researchers launched www.g
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