Apple is hiring in Europe for the iPhone launch

 Thanks to the french blog Le Blog iPhone, Apple is recruiting in Cork (Ireland) for the launch of the iPhone in Europe. The job ad was posted on the 26 of March, so we can guess that this role will be fit by the end of June. From my point of view, it probably means the iPhone could arrive in Europe in September-October.

Apple - iTunes will sell EMI Records DRM-Free Music

 According to an announcement from Apple and EMI Records in London today, iTunes will contain soon some high quality DRM-Free music from EMI at a basic price of $1.29.

I’m happy to hear that, Apple is making the music industry going to the next step. People wants DRM-Free music so everyone could listen to their music on every device they want.

I’m quite sure that other music majors will have to announce something soon about it…

11 June, the next big day?

According to CNET, the iPhone might be released on the 11th of June. If so, it would be on the same day as the Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, I think it’s not a coincidence, Steve Jobs is a very good in marketing…

Yahoo Mail - Unlimited Storage

will be the official mail provider for the iPhone, see the Press Release of Apple. Yahoo revealed yesterday that in May 2007, the Mail storage would be unlimited. So, is it for the iPhone or is it related to the free opening of Google Mail few weeks ago and the 2,8 GB of mail storage? My guess is that it is related to the Google fight, and Yahoo want to keep its domination in Webmail with this announcement.  

Apple and Cisco resolved their dispute with iPhone trademark

Finally Apple and Cisco have resolved their dispute regarding the “iphone” trademark owned by Cisco. It is a very good information for Apple as they can now freely use the iphone name and sell the mobile phone in the US. Cisco and Apple will also collaborate in security, and consumer and enterprise communications. It seems that there is a financial agreement, because “Other terms of the agreement are confidential”.

To have a look at the Press Release, click here.

The huge buzz around the iPhone announcement in MacWorld

When you search for iphone in Google.com, you have in the top 5 results a blog: http://appleiphone.blogspot.com/. To measure the impact of the announcement, you could get into Alexa traffic infos for that blog, and it has a huge impact on visitors to that blog:

If you focus on the last month, you could see that the traffic increase exactly on the day when Steve Jobs announced the launch in June of the iPhone:

An interesting figure is Technorati, since the launch, the “iphone” has been the most popular keyword in Technorati:

First spam with the iPhone

I think it’s the first spam I received with an iPhone offer inside…

iPhone news released

This is the first post on the iPhone news blog. This blog will cover the launch of the Apple iPhone which would be a new fantastic device in the mobile world…

Apple is breaking the news with this new device which merge in the same handsheld an ipod, a mobile phone, and an internet machine to communicate.