Daily Interesting iPhone News

Verizon Wireless plans to force customers to give up their unlimited data plans when they move to its high-speed wireless service, a top executive for parent Verizon Communications Inc. said on Wednesday.

For now, Verizon Wireless customers who move to the company’s highest-speed fourth generation (4G) network from its older network can still use the company’s unlimited wireless data plan for a flat monthly fee.

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Apple has fixed a bug that caused personal assistant app Siri to declare that Nokia Lumia 900 was the best smartphone ever. Last week, some users reported that Siri said ‘Lumia’ when it was questioned about the best smart phone ever, Stuff.co.nz reports.

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Greenpeace infiltrated Apple’s Cupertino campus this week, projecting messages from Twitter and Facebook users who are dismayed at Apple’s use of coal at the data centre that powers its cloud services.

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Intel is hoping to entice Apple with its new focus on Smartphone chips, as revealed by Intel CEO Paul Otellini, during the company’s annual investor day.  Intel only entered the smartphone market last month but it plans to quickly release chips that improve performance and power efficiency on smartphones.

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Emoticons — those jumbles of punctuation in an email or text — might leave you scratching your head and feeling . Decoding them can be exercise in .

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CHICAGO - You wouldn’t think picking up milk at the “L” station would be a good idea. But online grocer Peapod has turned a busy Chicago train station into a virtual supermarket aisle, enabling commuters to use their smartphones to scan and buy any of 70 items on the fly.

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Mobile advertisers are working around a new Apple policy that makes it harder to track user activity on iPhones and iPads, in what some see as clear consumer privacy violations.

Last summer, Apple began phasing out developer access to unique device identifiers (UDID), numbers on devices that many companies had used like tracking cookies in Internet browsers, enabling them to monitor activity from app to app and target ads accordingly.

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Starting a new job always creates a mix of emotions. Excitement, trepidation, nervousness. Landing a job at Apple is only going to enhance any and all emotions due to the reputation and high standards the company exudes.

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When Randall Stephenson, AT&T’s chief executive, spoke about the state of the wireless industry at a conference this week, he shared some surprisingly frank comments about the iPhone. In particular, he said that he wished the company had never offered an unlimited data plan for the device and that he loses sleep over free texting services like Apple’s iMessage.

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Zenprise®, Inc., the leader in secure Mobile Device Management (MDM) today announced Sprint has selected Zenprise MobileManager™ to power the Sprint Device Management Solution. Sprint Device Management is part of the Sprint Professional Mobility Services portfolio, a suite of professional and managed services designed to help businesses simplify management across a mix of mobile devices and applications.

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My name is Amy. I’m a 25-year-old grad student who likes yoga, home-decorating shows and eating spoonfuls of peanut butter straight from the jar. Oh yeah, and I’m an iPhone addict.

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A big 95 percent sell-off of one’s stake in a company might indicate said person had some sort of scary insider information about the company’s impending implosion. But from the looks of it, Apple Senior Vice President Scott Forstall made his $38.7 million deal not because he plans on leaving a doomed company.

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Apple’s iconic iPhone was almost released with a physical keyboard. Apple reportedly considered the phone design before finally deciding on the handset’s touchscreen-only form factor.

Tony Fadell, who was previously Senior Vice President of the iPod division of Apple, talked about the early days of the iPhone during a recording of On The Verge Friday.

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On Apple’s earnings call today, CEO Tim Cook took a shot at Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 tablets for trying to combine two fundamentally different things—a personal computer with a keyboard, and a tablet with a touch screen.

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During the “Magenta Deal Days”, T-Mobile will give customers $200 for their iPhone, $100 for an Android-powered phone, and $50 for any other brand of mobile phone, assuming it still works.

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Apple Inc infringed on a Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc patent in making its popular iPhones, iPads and other products, a judge for the International Trade Commission ruled yesterday.

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Samsung has released another video tease on YouTube for its upcoming Unpacked 2012 event in London in May where it’s expected to pull the wraps off the latest in its line of its Galaxy smartphones, the S III.

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Time it right. Want a TV? Look just before the Super Bowl. In the market for a digital camera? New models are out early in the year. Notebook computers are often discounted in late summer for back-to-school shoppers.

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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak spoke to students at the University of Southern California about the company he started with Steve Jobs in the 1970s. At the presentation on 19 April, Wozniak revealed that he was designing circuits and learning about electrons at a young age, after he discovered a journal “in a closet”.

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Traditionally, BlackBerry has dominated the enterprise smartphone market, pushing its devices as being ideal for people who intend to use their phones to stay connected with their jobs. But Apple would like to change that perception.

On Friday, Apple launched a new section on the iPhone landing page on apple.com, according to a story from Apple Insider. On it, the company details the many ways that iPhones can be useful to business professionals.

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