Apple has finally broken into the Japanese market with its seemingly unstoppable iPhone. Mobile carrier Softbank -- Japan's No. 3 wireless provider -- announced a deal to distribute the phones in a one-sentence statement Wednesday morning. The move is a big coup for Apple, which has reportedly been in talks with Japanese mobile providers for nearly two years. Apple was rumored to have been working on a deal with the nation's top mobile carrier, NTT DoCoMo, but disputes over profit division kept the discussions from going anywhere.
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Apple has filed for a U.S. patent on a wide range of methods for using a device with a touchscreen display. The patent relates to one or more finger contacts and a corresponding heuristic to determine the desired command to be processed. The patent was filed on Sept. 5, 2007, and posted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on May 29. Inventors are listed as Steven P. Jobs, Scott Forstall and about two dozen others. The patent apparently seeks to extend the simple set of commands now used on the iPhone and iPod touch to include finger gestures that command.
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This is a fun time of year. The summer sun is just starting to get its groove on, beaches swarm with scantily suited bathers, theme parks hum with throngs of thrill-seekers, even the forests and national parks around the country strain to capacity as vacationers seek places to unwind and commune with nature. True enough, skyrocketing gas prices are dampening some vacation plans, but not all. Plus, everyone needs to take a break from the serious side of life. It is also a time of anticipation for Apple watchers.
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A flaw in Apple's Safari Web browser has caught the attention of Microsoft's security team. The software maker has released an advisory for Windows XP and Windows Vista users running Safari, informing them that Microsoft has begun investigating a vulnerability discovered two weeks earlier by Nitesh Dhanjani, a security researcher. One of three bugs Dhanjani found in connection with Safari, the flaw exposes PC users to a "carpet bomb" attack, allowing potentially malicious files to be downloaded to and run on a PC without the owners' consent.
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Roger Entner, an analyst with Nielsen/IAG, thinks that it's unlikely and undesirable that Apple and AT&T would offer a subsidy on the second generation iPhone. "There's no need to upgrade the device's capabilities and lower its cost at the same time," Entner said. "AT&T Mobility first will have to see the effect that a 3G iPhone will have on its HSDPA network. Right now, that HSDPA service is robust, with only a few million laptops riding on it. Add a few million iPhone users, who are heavy users of the Internet, and it could be like shaking a skyscraper."
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