The iPhone Finds Its Voice

The iPhone 4S is one of Apple’s less dramatic updates, but, when combined with the Siri, iOS 5 and iCloud features, it presents an attractive new offering to smartphone users, writes Walt.

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Siri vs. Google Now (Comic)

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
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Foxconn Steps Up Hiring as Apple Readies New iPhone

Foxconn Technology Group has resumed hiring assembly-line workers in China after a postholiday freeze, in the latest sign that major customer Apple Inc. is gearing up for production of the new iPhone.

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Yahoo, Apple Discuss Deeper iPhone Partnership

Yahoo Inc. and Apple Inc. are getting cozier.

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Apple to Begin iPhone Production This Quarter

Apple Inc. plans to begin production of a refreshed iPhone similar in size and shape to its current one in the second quarter of the year, according to people familiar with the device’s production, teeing up a possible summer launch for the next version of its flagship device.

My First iPhone

When I consider the screens that were available to me as a 5-year-old, versus those that were available to me at 40, I am staggered by all the welcome and unwelcome ways video has pervaded my life.

Mat Honan in a Wired post titled “The Terrible Truth About Toddlers and Touchscreens”

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Apple Suffers Setback in Dispute Over iPhone Name in Mexico

Mexico’s Supreme Court rejected Apple’s appeal against a ruling that a technology services firm owns and makes proper use of the “Ifone” brand name in the country.

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In Rare Move, Apple Goes on the Defensive Against Samsung

In a rare interview a day before Samsung Electronics Co. announces a new flagship smartphone in New York, Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller on Wednesday played down the expected competition from the device.

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Samsung Trains Its Eye on the iPhone

The technology industry will be paying close attention to Samsung Electronics Co. this week when it lifts the curtains on a new high-end smartphone at an event in New York on Thursday.

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How Innovation Happens (And Why It Doesn’t, When It Doesn’t)

It’s the “nobody gets fired for buying IBM” kind of mindset that minimizes chances of disaster, but also prevents companies from experiencing major breakthroughs.

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The Implications of Patent Rulings With Limited Remedies

A favorable verdict may be largely meaningless without an effective remedy.
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Has Apple Lost Its Cool to Samsung?

Apple Cuts Orders for iPhone Parts

Rebuttal to Gregory’s iPhone Contract (Comic)

Apple’s Cook, China Mobile Meet, Raising Possibility of iPhone Deal

Apple Working on a Less-Expensive iPhone

Apple Has Paid Out More Than $7 Billion to Developers

Last Year’s Tax Rate May Not Survive in 2013, but Your Cable Service Probably Will

iPhone’s Lost Week (Comic)

China’s ZTE Targets iPhone

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All I Want for Christmas Is My Apple TV

Apple Loses Patent Case to Licensing Firm

More Than a Century Old, the Qwerty Keyboard Is Ripe for Reinvention