Cava22, the San Francisco bar where another unreleased iPhone apparently went missing.

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In a bizarre repeat of a high-profile incident last year, an Apple employee once again appears to have lost an unreleased iPhone in a bar, CNET has learned.

The errant iPhone , which went missing in San Francisco’s Mission district in late July, sparked a scramble by Apple security to recover (more…)

The iPad as a gaming platform is likely to be a highly thriving ecosystem. The reasons are not hard to find -
are among the most downloaded apps on the iPhone and with the larger pixel real estate and better controls, it is likely to be an even greater success on the iPad. So there is a heightened level of anticipation among app developers as they get ready to unveil their new releases to their customers when the iPad launches in the markets in (more…)

If speculations are true, these applications could find their way back into the
soon. Folks at
“. These links, which have since then been removed, point towards a possibility of a separate category for iPhone and
with sexual content. Nevertheless, we are unsure if
with explicit content are coming back anytime soon.
Having said that, a separate category for explicit content could be an acceptable solution. Despite their offensive nature, (more…)

There have been doubts raised about Verizon's take-away from the deal, which not only appears to be heavily benefitting Skype, but could also potentially cannibalize Verizon's own income from international calls.
The move, it now appears, has been made out of Verizon's apprehensions over the threat from iPhone . According to Om Malik from
, there is a high possibility for the agreement to be an exclusive one. Malik's sources have (more…)

Late last year, we had written about the complaint filed by Bouygues Telecom, the third largest mobile operator in France that claimed that the exclusive partnership between Apple and Orange, the largest mobile operator in the country violated the freedom of competition and pricing laws.
Post its investigations, the Competition authority had ruled that the exclusive agreement ”
“. That was meant to be a temporary ruling in favor of Boyugues which (more…)

In the three months ending September, 4.3 million new connections were activated by AT&T. Of this 74% – 3.2 million connections were just iPhones! Of these 3.2 million iPhones, close to 40% were new customers confirming what all of us had guessed for a long time – AT&T would be close to dead without the iPhone .
On the revenue front, the total revenues for the quarter equalled $30.9 billion, down from $31.3 billion in Q3 2008. This meant a net income (more…)

iSuppli prediction is based on the anticipated growth of High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) technology being adopted by AT&T. According to the report, HSPA will have 1.4 billion subscribers by 2012, while competing standard EVDO, used by Verizon, will have only 304.6 million users by 2013.
According to Francis Sideco, principal analyst, wireless communications at iSuppli:
“Speculation is rife that Apple will end its exclusive U.S. iPhone service (more…)