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IS there a good way to nail down a steady income? In this economy?
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Try writing a successful program for the iPhone.
Last August, Ethan Nicholas and his wife, Nicole, were having trouble making their mortgage payments. Medical bills from the birth of their younger son were piling up. [...]

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The iPhone was charging. Refined, introverted, mysteriously chilled, my new $200 tile of technology lay supine on a side table, gulping power from the wall.
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CUPERTINO, Calif. — More than 40 years ago, computer researchers came up with the concept of cutting and pasting text in a computer document. Electronic organizers and sophisticated phones have had those basic functions for years.
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Scott Forstall discussed on Tuesday the software upgrade for the [...]

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The Condé Nast magazine Lucky has always been an unabashed promoter of shopping. On Monday, it is going one step further, introducing an iPhone application, Lucky at Your Service, that ties into stores’ inventories.
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The application features more than 70 shoes listed in its March shoe guide (including [...]

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LAS VEGAS — Seeking to revive its sharply fallen fortunes and produce a successor to its aging Treo device, Palm unveiled a sleek new smartphone, the Pre, on Thursday and an exclusive partnership with Sprint to distribute it.
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A start-up company called Tapulous has turned a simple game for the iPhone into an Internet-age mobile stage for musicians.
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Tap Tap Revenge, a free game that challenges players to keep up with catchy tunes by tapping in the right spots on the phone’s screen, was available in Apple’s [...]

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SOON you may no longer need to stick out your thumb to catch a ride. Instead, you may get one by tapping your fingers on your iPhone.
Avego, based in Kinsale, Ireland (www.avego.com), is demonstrating an iPhone application intended to let drivers and prospective passengers connect and share rides.
When the program is available, [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO — Pushing ahead in the decades-long effort to get computers to understand human speech, Google researchers have added sophisticated voice recognition technology to the company’s search software for the AppleiPhone.
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Google’s voice search software works only with iPhones, but the company plans [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO — Riding a wave of consumer enthusiasm for its hand-held iPhone smartphones, Apple reported strong fiscal fourth-quarter profits that outpaced Wall Street’s expectations. But it warned of slower sales ahead.
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Apple’s iPhone 3G is has attracted customers around the world. Above, Russian shoppers got their

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AT&T’s successful relationship with Apple comes at a price: $900 million.
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That is the amount of money AT&T paid to Apple for the 2.4 million iPhones the phone company sold in the third quarter. It is a number that surprised even AT&T, which did not anticipate such huge demand [...]

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