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What happened: AT&T on iTunes activation problems

by Robert Palmer (Jul 15th, 2008)

CIO.com interviewed AT&T spokesperson Mark Siegel, who confirmed that Friday's activation server outage was due to massive worldwide demand. This may not come as a surprise, but it's the only official comment we've heard. "The iTunes software appeared to have been so overwhelmed by demand ...

1.1.1 iPhone firmware offers low-rent Push-to-Talk

by Erica Sadun (Oct 17th, 2007)

Although I knew that the 1.1.1 firmware update introduced more attachment viewing support, I didn't realize until now that it added AMR playback. AMR, if you don't recall, refers to Adaptive Multi-rate Compression. It's the audio data compression format used by the iPhone for both voice memos and ...

iPhone Voice Recorder Utility

by Erica Sadun (Aug 5th, 2007)

My iPhone broke. The screen just died a slow death, getting brighter and brighter and then very hot and then...nothing...over the course of a morning. With no phone to play with this morning, I did a lot of thinking and hunting through iPhone foundation files instead. And I seemed to find quite a ...

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