Thursday - January 31, 2008
In 2006, iPod users -- not to mention Apple shareholders -- were stunned to hear news accounts that workers at a Chinese factory that manufactured the devices were being subjected to abusive living and working conditions. In reality, Apple customers -- or the shareholders at least -- had little to worry about. For all the publicity that activists have been able to throw at companies such as Nike for overseas labor violations, in truth they have had very little affect on any one company's bottom line, said professor George T. Haley.
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Monday - January 14, 2008
Apple's bid to sell its iPhone in China has apparently failed with the news that China Mobile is ending talks to market the device there. The two firms reportedly ceased negotiations because they were unable to agree upon a revenue-sharing model for the music, games and video downloads that China Mobile would offer.
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Wednesday - November 28, 2007
Would you pay $1,478 for an iPhone? France Telecom's Orange subsidiary didn't think so. That's why Orange is offering iPhones in France for the door-bustingly low price of only $959. U.S. readers aren't seeing typographical errors. Those truly are the prices being asked in France and Germany for iPhones.
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Tuesday - November 20, 2007
Dark clouds are gathering over Apple's iPhone in Germany. Monday marked the start of a legal tussle over Apple's contracting arrangement with cellular carriers -- in this case T-Mobile's German arm -- that, if not resolved, could put a damper on iPhone sales in Europe.
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Tuesday - November 13, 2007
Apple is working hard to break into the market for mobile phones in China. The company is reportedly in talks with China Mobile, which has more mobile subscribers than any other company in a world -- a mind-blowing 350 million. Of course, Apple wants in. The company's latest moves came to light after Wang Jianzhou, China Mobile's CEO, spoke to reporters at the GSM Association's Mobile Asia Congress.
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Monday - October 29, 2007
Consumers planning to splurge this holiday season and buy iPhones for the whole family will have to make other plans and they will have to pay for any iPhone purchased with a credit or debit card. Apple and AT&T have tightened restrictions on sales of the popular sought device in an effort to prevent resellers from scooping up the handsets.
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Friday - October 12, 2007
Undaunted by Apple's recent firmware update for iPhone, which renders useless iPhones that were unlocked from the AT&T network, a company that sells unlocking software says its product can now restore the "bricked" devices. The company, iphonesimfree, has new software that breathes life back into iPhones that were disabled two weeks ago when Apple released firmware version 1.1.1.
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Wednesday - September 19, 2007
On the heels of announcing it will begin selling iPhones in the UK on Nov. 9, Apple said the phone's German debut will take place on the same day, but the device will be tied to a different carrier. The company said T-Mobile will be the exclusive German carrier for the iPhone. In the UK, Apple chose O2 as the exclusive carrier, a position held in the United States by AT&T.
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Tuesday - September 18, 2007
Ending yet another round of intense speculation -- this time among Britons and Europeans anxious to get their hands on the iPhone -- Apple announced Tuesday that it has granted O2 the right to exclusively bring the iPhone to the British market. The handset maker also finally revealed the date for the release of the iPhone in the UK, set for Nov. 9, a little more than five months after its U.S. launch.
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Monday - September 17, 2007
Apple is widely expected to announce soon which companies it has selected to play a role in the European iPhone network, and it looks like O2, Orange and T-Mobile will likely be among the lucky winners. At a media event in London on Tuesday, O2 reportedly will be made the official iPhone company in the United Kingdom.
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Wednesday - August 22, 2007
Apple may have signed contracts with three mobile phone operators in Europe to carry its popular iPhone. Apple's deals are reportedly with T-Mobile in Germany, Orange in France, and O2 in the UK. Furthermore, the contract allegedly requires the operators to give Apple 10 percent of the revenues generated from iPhone services.
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