Small problems hamper iPhone launch(1)

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Apple's new 3G iPhone is displayed at Telcel Center in Mexico City July 11, 2008. The new iPhone is expected to attract hordes of buyers when it goes on sale on Friday in more than 20 countries and regions, helping Apple Inc. handily beat its target to sell 10 million of them by the end of 2008 . (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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BEIJING, July 13 (Xinhua)  -- The launch of Apple Inc.'s new iPhone became an information-technology meltdown on Friday, as customers were unable to get their phones working.

A spokesman for AT&T, the exclusive carrier for the iPhone in the United States, was quoted Saturday by the Associated Press as saying that there was a global problem with Apple's iTunes servers that prevented the phones from being fully activated in-store, as had been planned.

Instead, employees were telling buyers to go home and perform the last step by connecting their phones to their own computers, spokesman Michael Coe was cited as saying.

However, the iTunes servers were equally hard to reach from home, leaving the phones unusable except for emergency calls.

The problem extended to owners of the previous iPhone model. A software update released for that phone on Friday morning required the phone to be reactivated through iTunes.

The new phone went on sale in 21 countries on Friday, creating a global burden on the iTunes servers, said the AP.

New Apple iPhone has software problem

LOS ANGELES, July 11 (Xinhua) -- The next generation of Apple iPhone 3G went on sale on Friday, but a software glitch prevented customers from getting the device to work.

A spokesman for AT&T, the exclusive carrier for the iPhone in the U.S., said there was a global problem with Apple's iTunes software that prevented the phones from being fully activated in-store, as had been planned. Full story

Researcher faults iPhone security updates

BEIJING, July 7 (Xinhuanet) -- A leading Mac OS X researcher said iPhone failed to update its operating system, according to media reports Monday.

Iphone runs a stripped-down version of Mac OS 10.5 and automatically checks for security updates. The last update for it, 1.1.4, was issued in February, despite a flaw discovered by Charlie Miller, a veteran hacker at Independent Security Evaluators, in March. Full story

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