September 18, 2007 12:45 PM PDT
Podcast: iPhone on sale in U.K. in November
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The U.K. gets the iPhone in November, Microsoft Office gets a couple of free rivals, and a tech reporter gets his first cell phone.
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Brace yourself, Britons. The iPhone is coming to the U.K. on November 9. The U.K. iPhone will be carried by O2, and the prices are causing just as much of a stir as they did when the iPhone was first announced in the U.S. For full coverage of Apple's U.K. iPhone announcement, see Andrew Lim's story on Crave. And be sure to check Crave U.K. for the latest updates and videos.
Microsoft Office just got a couple of free rivals. Google announced the launch of Google Presentations on Monday. The Microsoft PowerPoint rival is part of Google Docs, the company's free online office suite. Harrison Hoffman of the CNET Blog Network took the new Web-based software for a spin. IBM also introduced an office suite Tuesday called Lotus Symphony, and it's free as well. IBM is hoping it will become a popular open-source alternative to Microsoft's proprietary Office suite.
It's only Tuesday, but it's already been a monumental week. Yes, the seemingly impossible has happened: CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos finally bought a cell phone. It's his first. Ever. Read his first-person account of being the latest of the late adopters, as well as his fresh observations of the pros and cons of cell phone ownership.
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