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AT&T unsuspends online sales of iPhone in NYC
AT&T's iPhone problems keep getting worse. The phones are behaving so badly in NYC that AT&T tried surreptiously to discourage sales. From Jeffrey Bartash, Dow Jones:
In a holiday-shortened week, AT&T has spawned a raft of headlines on the Internet after the company halted online sales of the iPhone in New York City, at least temporarily. The phone is still available to New Yorkers in Apple (AAPL) and AT&T stores, however....
Since reports of AT&T's online move surfaced Sunday, a number of people have tried to order the iPhone online using New York City ZIP codes. An effort by this writer to do the same showed that "there are no phones and devices that match your search criteria," according to AT&T's Web site.
Now CNBC is reporting that AT&T has resumed online sales in NYC.
AT&T is in quite a pickle. According to a great NYT article by Randall Stross published two weeks ago, the problem isn't AT&T's network, it's the iPhone's electronics.
from Rolfe Winkler:
Evening Links 12-10
Loopholes lurk in bank bill (Paletta/Enrich, WSJ) Companies with connections get to buy exemptions...
Treasury yield curve widens to most since 1992 (Walker, Bloomberg)
Dems want to raise debt ceiling a whopping $1.8 trillion (Rogers, Politico) So they don't have to revisit the issue before the 2010 midterm elections...
Humbled giants eye business phone market
LONDON, Aug 13 (Reuters) – Once they were warriors battling one another on the digital battlefield. Nowadays, Microsoft and Nokia are worriers, huddling together for comfort.
The world’s top phone and software companies need each other to compete with Apple, Google and Blackberry-maker Research in Motion (RIM), whose products increasingly define what users expect from phones and charge premium prices in consequence.
Apple-Google learn Corporate Governance 1.0
LONDON, Aug 3 (Reuters) – The resignation of Google CEO Eric Schmidt from Apple’s board should come as no surprise to anyone with an inkling of what corporate governance means.
But then Silicon Valley’s idea of corporate boards has long consisted of cozy, interlocking directorships which would be considered collusion in most other industries.
from MediaFile:
Steve Jobs is the product; iPhones the accessories
 
New iPhones, expected next week, are likely to be overshadowed by the triumphal return of Steve Jobs as chief executive of the technology group.
No company and its products are more inseparable from its leader than Apple and Steve Jobs. His obsession with sleek design and an always hard to define "cool factor" has produced an unmatched string of hit computers, music players and, recently, phones.   Â
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