iPhone launches in China, faces challenges
9to5mac.com 10/30/2009 — Apple’s iPhone launched in China this morning, but the introduction of the hot US product has hit a little snag - the first iterations to reach market lack WiFI, even though local law was recently changed to permit inclusion of support for the ...

Expensive iPhone Debuts in China Without WiFi
modmyi.com 10/30/2009 — i mage via TheAppleBlog The Wall Street Journal reports today on China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd.'s launch of the iPhone by noting the price of a 32-GB iPhone 3GS without a service contract: ¥6,999 or the equivalent of $1,024. The phones also lack WiFi, due to government restrictions in ...

iPhone Finally Comes to China…Without WiFi
mashable.com 10/31/2009 — Picture this: you’ve been waiting for a popular product that’s been available in most other parts of the world for two years. When it finally arrives, it lacks an important feature. Would you buy it, or would you buy the same thing, ...

China Unicom iPhone sales could be impacted by lack of WiFi and high price
MobileBurn.com 10/30/2009 — China Unicom will begin offering the iPhone tonight but could face sales difficulties because the device lacks WiFi functionality and costs more than unlocked black market iPhones available in the country. Read the full story here.

The Associated Press: iPhone comes to China without key feature
google.com 10/30/2009 — 12 hours ago BEIJING Apple's iPhone is making its long-awaited formal debut in the world's most populous mobile phone market, without a key feature and at higher prices than widely available black market models. Apple's local service provider, China ...

Apple to Bring WiFi-Free iPhone to China Three Months Early
digitaldaily.allthingsd.com 7/11/2009 — Apple’s iPhone is coming to China, perhaps sooner than later. But when it finally arrives it’s likely to lack an important feature: WiFi. Sources say Apple (AAPL) has formally requested a Network Access License to sell the iPhone in Chine , but it’s ...

What, No WiFi?
futurelawyer.typepad.com 11/2/2009 —

GeoHot Offers to Fix iPhone WiFi Problems - For $10,000
modmyi.com 26 days ago — GeoHot has declared the blacksn0w/blackra1n WiFi bug "closed, " saying that after his investigation he believes it to be a problem with the iPhone firmware itself, rather than his work. On Twitter today, he made a statement suggesting he could fix the bug for $10,000. Most observers, ...

The mobile data apocalypse, and what it means to you
mobileopportunity.blogspot.com 12 days ago — The mobile industry is now completing a huge shift in its attitude toward mobile data. Until pretty recently, the prevailing attitude among mobile operators was that data was a disappointment. It had been hyped for a decade, and although there were ...

PR Newswire Press Releases on Statesman.com
prnewswire.com 9/24/2009 — FON Releases New Innovative Web Applications WiFi Router World's largest WiFi community releases groundbreaking 802.11n WiFi router that interacts directly with Web 2.0 services MADRID and SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- FON today released its ...

Orange saves callers pennies with iPhone tariffs — The Register 11/2/2009
The future's bright, the future's 11p cheaper Orange will launch its iPhone offering on November 10th, at a price almost indistinguishable from O2's existing one.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Marvel Comics open on iPhone — The Register 11/2/2009
Stateside Jobsian X-Men US comics fans can now use their iPhones' in-app purchase capability to download Marvel comics onto Apple's überpopular smartphones.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

iPhone Reception In China Less Than Stellar — InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 11/2/2009
The iPhone was officially released in China on the China Unicom network October 30th. They had a big launch party but reception for the device itself was considered tepid compared with other iPhone launches in other countries around the world.  ...

iPhone Threatens Amazon Kindle — InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 11/2/2009
The e-books category has taken over the top spot from the games category in Apple's App Store.

App Store developer revenues top $900 million — FierceDeveloper 11/2/2009
Of the more than 2 billion iPhone and iPod touch applications downloaded since Apple's App Store opened in mid-2008, about 30 percent--approximately 610 million--fall into the premium app category, translating to total developer revenues of $900 ...