The battle over the iPhone trademark? Resolved. John Chambers? Still alive by all accounts. Steve Jobs? Relaxing to the soothing sounds of Bob Dylan. But while this fixes the trademark issues, another theater of operations is still active: the Intertube.

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Everybody is writing about it, finally we can take a deep breath because this also means that I can keep my site like it is. Good news after all.

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We have just added two new sections on the left side. A collection of iPhone Wannabees and an archive of iPhone skins for various mobile phones. If you happen to bump into one not listed yet, please let me know.

It’s not been the best of news for Apple since they announced the iPhone at the World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco earlier this year. So far they’ve been faced with stiff competition from the likes of LG with their Prada touch screen phone, and the most recent Samsung F700 Ultra Smartphone, the latter of which has already been said to have killed off the iPhone.

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APPLE GURU Steve Jobs managed to insult his telco partners Cingular until they bent all their rules to take his iPhone project, an august journal claimed yesterday.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Jobs started out by reminding Cingular that it was an ‘orifice’ and should not get too cocky over what it could do.

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Jobs’ iPhone demo was so powerful that he actually made people believe that Apple invented a whole new user interface. In fact, Apple did something more important than that. The company took some of the best—hitherto obscure—UI research and put it into a product that you will be able to buy.

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Yes, the iPhone’s going to be expensive. We’ve dealt with that and moved on. What you might not realise is that, for the money, iPhone’s a lot better value that the Windows-powered alternative.

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Here is a widget to have some fun with our wait for the iPhone.

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With the stock price this low, it is maybe time to buy again. This is what more and more investment specialist are suggesting.

Citigroup analyst Richard Gardner is upgrading his rating on shares of Apple Inc. (AAPL/NASD) to “buy” from “hold” ahead of what he considers important “product catalysts” coming up for the company.

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