Verizon Wireless iPhone Deal

US telecommunications provider Verizon Wireless will be selling the iPhone 4 and 5 on its networks from January 2011, reports said.

The news has been greeted warmly by Apple fans in the US, who for years have been stuck on AT&T Inc's network for iPhone coverage.

The exclusive iPhone contract with AT&T was set to end in January, Bloomberg news reported Tuesday night, citing unidentified sources in the Verizon camp.

Verizon Wirless is at the forefront of digital communications technology in the United States, currently building it's own 4G wireless network.

Later this year, Verizon was also expected to unveil deals with several other popular smartphone makers to carry their respective devices.

Massive growth in the use of smartphones for high volume data activity, like the downloading of music, videos and applications has put an increased strain on the AT&T network, creating iPhone user dismay.

Steve Jobs' Apple Inc. has sold some 50 million iPhone smartphone devices world wide since 2007, with the 4th generation iPhone released world wide last week.

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Apple "Extraordinary Products" Coming in 2010, say Steve Jobs

WALL STREET, Manhattan- Apple CEO Steve Jobs has promised several more "extraordinary" products from the technology maker in 2010, after it released much better than expected earnings on Wall Street late yesterday.

Apple Inc recorded a 90% jump in profit for Q2. Apple recorded US $13.5 billion in sales for the period, exceeding investor expectation of US$12 billion is sales. Earnings per share were $3.33, up on expectations by Wall Street analysts at $2.43.

“We’ve launched our revolutionary new iPad and users are loving it, and we have several more extraordinary products in the pipeline for this year,” Apple CEO, the toast of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, said.

Apple shares on the Nasdaq (APPL) on Wall Street were put into a trading halt as earnings for the second quarter came in.

Virtually all Apple Inc products saw a surge in sales, despite an average US economy.

Apple Mac computers jumped 33 percent unit increase in sales compared to the same time last year, the iPhone sales were at 8.75 million , a 131 percent jump on last year.

Apple Inc also sold 10.89 million iPods during the quarter, down 1% on last year.

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Apple 4G Launch April 8

Apple Inc says it will launch its new 4th generation iPhone device soon with a sneak preview media event April 8th.

SAN FRANCISCO, California- The Apple machine continues it momentum, with Steve Job's popular consumer technology company saying it will hold a Thursday April 8 2010 event for the 4th generation iPhone.

Apple sent out a special invitation-only alert to several major media outlets and technology media specialists to a San Francisco event sold as a “peek into the future of iPhone OS.”

Few more details were given, but it's expected Apple would release specifics on it's new 2010 Apple iPhone Operating System at the town hall style event.

The Apple iPhone smartphone is currently one of the most popular mobile phone devices in the world.


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Applegirl002 Covers Pop Songs with iPhone Smartphone Devices

A young South Korean girl with an amazing voice and enough money for several Apple iPhone devices has become a viral web hit.

Using the Youtube user name, Applegirl002, the South Korean says on her Youtube page: "I love APPLE, I-Phone. It so amazing and useful."

Sp far in the past week Applegirl002 has come up with two viral Youtube videos using the iPhone to cover both Beyonce's Irreplaceable and Lady Gaga's hit Poker Face.

Video: Applegirl002 amazing iPhone viral video's:

Applegirl002 covers Poker Face by Lady Gaga on her iPhone's


Applegirl002 covers Beyonce, Irreplaceable with her iPhone collection


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iPad Not Only Tablet Coming, HP Slate is Coming June

iPad from the Apple is not the only tablet set for release in the coming weeks, HP is set to launch its version of the tablet known as the HP Slate.

Spanish online technology media say the HP Slate will be launched in June 2010 for a more competitive price than the Apple iPad, the most popular tablet device so far.

The HP Slate tablet device will run Windows 7, contain a camera, include a USB port and, unlike the Apple iPad, will run Adobe Flash support.

The Apple iPad will launch in the US on April 3 2010 and various other countries will begin selling the device not long after.

Meanwhile video has emerged from HP showing its new flexible screen technology. The video posted on Youtube shows HP has a long way to go with the technology. The HP technology is mostly likely to be used to make displays thinner and lighter.


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SmartPhone Technologies LLC Claims iPhone, Blackberry, Others Infringe Patents

A Texas based technology firm, SmartPhone Technologies LLC, claims major smartphone makers like Apple (iPhone), Research in Motion (Blackberry) and many other mobile phone makers infringe on several patents it claims owns.

Smartphone Technologies has filed a court proceeding against the smartphone makers, with Apple (iPhone) accused of violating six patents the Texas Technology firm claims it owns, including; Bluetooth connectivity, e-mail syncing, bandwidth conservation and other micro smartphone functions.

SmartPhone Technologies claims its company has been damaged by the smartphone makers its claims infinges on its patents and is seeking compensation. Large smarpthone makers, Apple RIM, AT&T, Samsung, Sanyo, LG, and Motorola are all named in the suit.

The six patents Smartphone Technologies claims the Smartphone makers infiringe:

Patent No. 6,950,645: "Power Conserving Intuitive Device Discovery Technique in a Bluetooth Environment."

Patent No. 7,076,275: "Method and System for Single-Step Enablement of Telephony Functionality for a Portable Computer System."

Patent No. 7,506,064: "Handheld Computer System that Attempts to Establish an Alternative Network Link Upon Failing to Establish a Requested Network Link."

Patent No. 7,533,342: "System and Method of a Personal Computer Device Providing Telephone Capability."

Patent No. 6,711,609: "Method and Apparatus for Synchronizing an Email Client on a Portable Computer System with an Email Client on a Desktop Computer."

Patent No. RE40,459: "Method and Apparatus for Communicating Information Over Low Bandwidth Communications Network


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iPhone Growth Stalls in US as Android Smartphones Catch Up

The seemingly unstoppable growth of the Apple iPhone may not be so, with the Android smartphones from Google taking a huge leap in growth of 154% over the last 3 months.

New figures released from smartphone numbers keepers ComScore shows reason for Apples Steve Jobs to be nervous about the future of the iPhone in the US.

iPhone sales were not exactly bad, its just that the growth it had sustained since the 2007 iPhone launch has started to wain, with competitor smartphone devices honing in.

The new figures also show Blackberry from Research in Motion continues to dominate the smartphone market in the United States.

Microsoft and Palm operating smartphones all took a dive in growth, the figures also showed.

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Smartphone Will Kill the PC

Manhattan, New York- Thanks the roaring popularity of devices like the Apple iPhone, Google Nexus One, Blackberry, Palm Pre and other smartphone devices, the market for the intelligent cell phone is set to outstrip that of the PC in just two years, financial forecasts said.

Gartner Inc, a technology research firm in Stamford, Connecticut projected that sales of smarpthone devices would triple from 2008 levels.

“Smartphones are headed towards that billion-unit category that handsets are in today,” Bloomberg Media quoted market researcher Jim McGregor as saying. “The smartphone is the billion-unit pot of gold that everyone wants.”

Since the launch of the Apple iPhone in 2007, the smartphone movement has hit fever pitch, with technology companies struggling to get on the smartphone bandwagon.

491.9 million smartphone units are set to be sold by 2012 from 139.3 million in 2008, while the PC market would expand to 443.1 million units from 290.8 million in the same period.

The way that people use the Internet will change dramatically with the rise of the smarpthone and fall of the PC, as users spend more time on social networking sites, applications and less time surfing web sites, meaning Internet media providers will have to rapidly adapt.

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iJunkies, iPhone Addiction Taking Hold with Smartphone Users

Are you an iJunike? iPhone addiction is becoming a common theme with millions of users of the Apple smarpthone reporting some sort of constant phone craving.

iPhones and other smartphones like the Blackberry are fast becoming the new cigarette, with new research showing a significant proportion of iPhone users showing signs of genuine addiction.

Research into iPhone users habits by Stanford University found some interesting habits exhibited by iPhone users:

-6% of iPhone users said they weren't at all addicted to the device, whereas a full 10 percent said they were fully addicted, and 34 percent gave themselves a 'four' on the five-point scale.

- 32% iPhone users who didn't report feeling completely addicted did worry that they would eventually become addicted.

- 85% of iPhone users reported using their iPhones as a watch while 89 percent use it as an alarm clock.

-75% of iPhone users actually confessed to sleeping with their iPhone in bed next to them.

Other attributes of iPhone iJunkies: '15 percent of those surveyed said the iPhone was turning them into a media addict; 30 percent called it a 'doorway into the world'; 25 percent found the phone 'dangerously alluring' and 41 percent said losing their iPhone would be 'a tragedy.''

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iPad on its way Apple assures

Manhattan, New York- Apple assures its fan boys and girls that it's highly anticipated iPad device is on its way, despite fears from investors and Apple enthusiasts production of the new Internet and entertainment based gizmo would be delayed.

Shares in Apple Inc on the New York Stock Exchange NASDAQ market surged Monday after Apple said it was on target for a world wide Apple iPad roll out on April 3 2010.

The excitement for the release of the Apple iPad is building with new stories such as this and a new advertisement campaign rolled out by Apple at the hugely watched Academy Awards Ceremony Apple iPad advertisement on Sunday March 8.

The Apple iPad will roll out to Apple stores April 3 2010, then the launch will go global like a big Hollywood blockbuster launch, with releases across Canada, wealthy EU nations, Japan and Australia by the end of the month.

Technology analysts said it was a relief to all for Apple to announce that stocks of the Apple iPad would be plentiful and available on time. Expectations are up to 5 or 6 million iPad units will be sold worked wide in the first year.

Many analysts are not however convinced Apple will be able to find a large enough market willing to pay for a tablet style computer system, with notebooks and networks still popular with millions. Dedicated eReaders like Amazon's Kindle are also popular, proving the iPad will be a marketing challenge for Apple Inc going forward.

The Apple iPad is also expected to put a lot of pressure on 3G wireless networks going forward, with smarpthones like the iPhone and Blackberry putting strain on networks in large, built up cities where such devices are commonly used like New York City.



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Melinda Dennehy Pictures, Smartphone Photo Message Scandal

A school teacher from New Hampshire, Melinda Dennehy, has been arrested after sending risque pictures of herself to one of her male students.

41-year-old Melinda Dennehy was taken into custody after she allegedly sent several clothless photos of herself to a 15-year-old student at Londonderry High School.

The student received pictures of English teacher Melinda Dennehy via mobile cell phone, and forwarded the pictures to his school pals.

Investigators were alerted to the pictures of Melinda Dennehy and school staff were able to identify her.

The student told investigators that Melinda Dennehy had "continuously sent him text messages" and had "kissed him twice on two separate occasions."

Mother of two Melinda Dennehy turned herself into police and will face charges in court April 30.

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Lisa Ellis Pictures, Wyclef Jean Wife Angry After Pictures of Stars Manager Found on Smartphone, Claims of Love Affair

The wife of musician Wyclef Jean, Marie Claudinette, is mega angry after she allegedly found risque pictures of his manager, Lisa Ellis on his smartphone mobile cell device.

Media report pictures of Lisa Ellis were found on the stars cell phone by Marie Claudinette, and Myclef Jeans wife now wants him to fire his manager.

New York media report Marie Claudinette went into a jealous rage after finding the pictures of Lisa Ellis on Jean's smartphone device.

A sources said Claudinette accused Jean of having an adult affair with Lisa Ellis: “She jumped to the conclusion that something may be up between Wyclef and Lisa. She told Lisa to stay away from her husband. To embarrass Lisa, she also e-mailed the picture to a number of people in the music business.”

Despite the smartphone cell phone pictures of Lisa Ellis, Wyclef Jean claims his relationship with Lisa Ellis is very much professional, claiming he had not had an adult affair with Lisa Ellis.

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Lara Bingle Mobile Phone MMS Photo Scandal Developments

More developments in the Lara Binlge model MMS phot scandal in Australia.

The Australian Football League says it will investigate player Brendan Fevola over allegedly distributing an MMS mobile cell phone picture of model Lara Bingle.

The Lara Bingle shower MMS picture was realaes to Australian media via journalist Dylan Howard, who obtained the Lara Bingle picture via MMS cell phone messaging.

The picture of Lara Bingle shows the bikini model in a shower fully undressed and the model alleged the picture was taken by Brendan Fevola when the football star and bikini model has a short term love affair in 2006.

Lara Bingle is taking legal action against Fevola for the MMS picture that has blown into a full blown scandal for the bikini model and Aussie rules player.

The MMS picture taken on a mobile or smarthphone camera "been circulating on mobile phones in the football world for years".


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Apple Sues HTC in Smarthone Wars

Apple is suing rival Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC over what it claims is a violation in its patented technology for the Apple iPhone.

Apple Inc claims HTC has infringed on 20 patents of various technologies owned by Apple Inc.

HTC technologies makes the Nexus One Android Smartphone for Google Inc, who are fast becoming a massive Californian rival of Apple.

The Apple HTC war declaration comes after a long running battle between the iPhone maker and Nokia, with that cell phone/smartphone maker accusing Apple of infringing on patents.

The news also comes after Kodak claimed smartphone makers such as Apple (iPhone) and Research in Motion (Blackberry) infringed on patents to do with smartphone digital camera technologies.

Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, hypocritically said: “We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it.”

“We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”

Reports said HTC was shocked at the Apple Inc moves to declare war on its smartphone making processes, and executives said they were studying the Steve Jobs smartphone accusations.

HTC is considered a very innovative smartphone maker, and has many research and development projects that have contributed to the ever changing smarpthone market.

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Tech Security Firm eCrypt in BlackBerry Smartphone Key Move

On Friday February 26, 2010 eCrypt Technologies, Inc. /quotes/comstock/11k!ecry (ECRY 0.84, -0.02, -2.33%) and Global Capital Partners LLC (Global Capital), agreed to settle the outstanding debt secured by the convertible debenture held by Global Capital, by converting all amounts due on the debenture into common shares of eCrypt Technologies, at the price of $0.81 per share.

By doing so, Global Capital increased its shareholdings of eCrypt to 12.01%.

Brad Lever, President and CEO commented "We are happy to announce that there are no other outstanding convertible notes, options, or warrants that can be exercise into common stock of eCrypt."

To try "eCrypt" wireless email encryption software for FREE, go to eCrypt's website and enter PROMO CODE: PR0301.

About eCrypt Technologies

eCrypt Technologies, Inc. is an information security firm with a focus on the wireless industry. Its flagship product "eCrypt", is a first-of-its-kind wireless email encryption software for BlackBerry(R) smartphones, and is available under a perpetual license or on a pay-per-use basis. Using the strongest encryption algorithms available for the BlackBerry(R) smartphone OS, eCrypt software prevents unwanted access to email messages during transmission and storage on servers and PCs. Users may communicate freely with each other knowing that no one has access to the content of their emails.

eCrypt Technologies is a proud BlackBerry(R) Alliance Associate Member, and has successfully obtained a Mass Market Status for its product from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security. This status allows eCrypt to export and re-export the software under section 742.15(B)(2) of the Export Administration Regulations, and is recognized by the Wassenaar Arrangement.

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Nexus One Beijing Event for Smartphone Cancelled Amid Google-China War

Google has "postponed" its China leg of the popular Nexus One smartphone launch.

Reports said California based Google had shelved plans for a regional conference where it was to liaise with software developers on ways to produce content for the Nexus One smartphone.

The move comes after the communist party Chinese government and Google become embroiled in an email hacking and search engine censorship standoff, with Google hinting it could even leave the nation entirely.

Google plans to hold software and industry developer conferences for the Nexus One smartphone in Hong Kong and Taiwan, but the Beijing round of the Nexus One conference would no longer be held as expected.

The planned Wednesday February 24th Nexus One Beijing event was pulled and may not take place at a future date.

The Nexus One smartphone uses the Android open source mobile operating system. The device is manufactured by Taiwan's HTC Corporation, and became available on January 5, 2010. Features of the phone include the ability to transcribe voice to text, noise canceling dual microphones, and voice directions while driving.


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Smartphone Users Targets for Tech Savvy Muggers

Smartphone users are increasingly becoming targets for muggers in San Francisco, local media said.

Local authorities in the Bay Area are being warned to be discreet when using their Blackberry's and iPhones on public transport, with tech savvy crooks looking to take users smartphones forcibly.

"Groups of robbers are targeting people with iPhones and other smart phones," warned a local San Francisco police spokesman.

A number of smarpthone users have been targeted in recent days and weeks and the problems was on the increase dramatically.

"The crime scenario would be they see somebody texting, they're on the iPhone, smartphone, and the criminals want that. So they're going to work together and that person would be unaware that they're even being targeted. They're going to swoop in, grab it, and off they're going," the San Francisco spokesperson said.

Users of other expensive electronics devices, such as commuters using laptops and MP3 music players, were also the target of frequent muggings.

The San Francisco robbers were increasingly becoming tech savvy in the way they carried out their selected smartphone robberies.

The spokesperson said San Francisco smartphone robbers would liaise with other robbers using their own mobile phone cell phones to target smartphone victims.

"If you really need to text and its nighttime, go into a coffee shop or do something so you're not walking down the street and become victimized," Police Captain Barrett said.

The smartphones were of high value to the smartphone robbers, with sales of symphonies such as the iPhone lucrative on the black market and with online sales on sites like eBay.

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Rootkits Create Smartphone Hacking Danger says study

Researchers and computer scientists say that the rise of malware known as ''rootkits'' could become a huge problem for smartphone users world wide, as the growth of the advanced cell phones continues.

With the rise in new smartphone operating software systems, hackers are quickly learning to find new ways to manipulate smartphones the same way personal computers have been manipulated in the past.

"Smart phones are essentially becoming regular computers," Vinod Ganapathy, assistant professor of computer science in Rutgers' School of Arts and Sciences said. "They run the same class of operating systems as desktop and laptop computers, so they are just as vulnerable to attack by malicious software, or 'malware.'"

Studying "rootkits'," a team of computer science professionals from Rutgers' University looked out how smartphone operating systems could be attacked in a way that smartphone users could have their every move, conversation and action followed.

WiFi, bluetooth, home networks and other systems leave all smartphone users vulnerable to attacks and hijackings, leaving personal information at high risk of exposure.

"What we're doing today is raising a warning flag," a researcher from Rutgers' computer science department said. "We're showing that people with general computer proficiency can create rootkit malware for smart phones. The next step is to work on defenses."

A series of test, to be demonstrated to experts at cellphone and mobile computing workshops in Maryland soon demonstrate how easy it is for smartphone users to have their devices hijacked and never know about it.

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iPhone Facebook App Down World Wide

iPhone users world wide are right now reporting a major failure with the iPhone smartphone Facebook application.

Users of iPhone on social networking site Twitter wondered why they could not access the social media giant, Facebook in the early hours of Monday morning February 22 2010 US time.

"Facebook app on iphone not logging in........ hmm i think the world is going to collapse," one iPhone facebook application user wore.

"Is anyone else having probs using the facebook app on iPhone??? It won't let me log on!," another users wrote in frustration.

Another user worried if Facebook had moved to black Apple iPhone smartphone users from the social networking site in some sort of anti-Apple move: "Facebook app for iPhone is broken. Looks like it's global. Have Facebook blocked it?," wondered another user.

As of writing there was no word on what has caused the Facebook iPhone application failure from either Apple Inc or Facebook.

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iPhone App Crackdown, Apple Removing Adult Apps

iPhone's are about to become a lot less risque, with Apple undertaking a big effort to crack down on applications of any adult nature.

Even bikini models were being deleted from the Apple iPhone Applications store, such is the drive by Californian based Apple to make the iPhone completely family friendly.

Application makers have been informed by the smartphone maker that any new iPhone apps that contained any "inappropriate material" would be removed by the Apple iPhone app team.

"If we find these apps contain inappropriate material, we remove them and request the developer make any necessary changes in order to be distributed by Apple," the Apple iPhone app developers warning said.

The effort appeared to be a widespread management effort by Apple Inc to clean up the iPhone and Apple brand ahead of shipping of its newest device making waves in the technology gizmo world, the Apple iPad.

Parents who are introducing the Apple iPhone to their kids are worried that correct controls are failing to work, with some parents saying Apple was failing to enforce appropriate control on questionable iPhone apps.

Some Apple iPhone smartphone developers have lobbied Apple Inc for the creation of a "red light district" for over 18's to access some risque iPhone applications


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