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Israel blocks iPad imports over Wi-Fi concerns

by Michael Rose (Apr 14th, 2010)

Israelis had to wait a long time for the local launch of the iPhone; it was late last year before the country's three cell carriers began selling it, and some estimates indicated more than 80,000 unlocked phones were already in use there. With that kind of pent-up demand for iStuff, you'd think ...

Could 'electric computers' be the new iPhone?

by Robert Palmer (May 23rd, 2008)

An unusually-large shipment of 188 mysterious containers has arrived in North America from Apple's manufacturing partners in China. The contents? "Electric computers," a term that Apple has never before used on its customs declarations. Additionally, 67 of the containers were destined for Canada, ...