After all the controversy surrounding the coming of the iPhone to China, we all know for a fact that China Unicom has gained the exclusive rights to distribute the popular Apple handset. However just like in most countries, there are more than one telecom companies who are doing business. For China, China Mobile is hoping to get some share of the pie as it is in talks with Apple to sell iPhones in China also.

Though nothing has come out of these talks, it is believed that China Mobile may likewise get the blessings of Apple and distribute the iPhone to the Chinese market. China holds one of the largest potential mobile markets in the world and surely China Unicom cannot solely handle all of these by its lonesome.

China Mobile, if successful in its talks with Apple, could be the largest carrier of iPhones in China.

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(Source) Wall Street Journal

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The buzz around today is the memorial held yesterday for the late King of Pop Michael Jackson. And if you browse this site a bit, you will recall I had posted an entry for the Pocket Cemetary app which curiously made use of Michael Jackson in its video and image for its press release.

The app has been hit for taking advantage of Jackson’s death to which the creator spoke out to defent the app:

“I’m shocked by the way some people can be so nasty and misguided, but I suppose that’s how they deal with grief and death. Ironically, that’s the point of Pocket Cemetery. Everyone deals with death differently. There’s no right or wrong answer. I created this phone application as a way to carry the memories of loved ones on my iPhone, but now some people are freaking out. It all started with creating a virtual memorial for my grandmother, and I’m sure she wouldn’t be happy to see all this controversy, especially when my intentions have been so good,” says Wayne Perry.

So as it may seem, Mr. Perry was indirectly stating that it was just coincidental. And he may be right since the app has been under development since April and was added to Apple’s “review cue” on June 23. It wasn’t approved for sale until July 5th, just after Michael Jackson’s death.

Now you may be wondering, why Michael Jackson was highlighted immediately. Folks, if you are in business, you know for a fact that you will get the best kind of attention and right now, the light Michael Jackson fit the bill. Dirty or not, this is business. If it was another well-known personality who passed away, you can bet he or she would be in the image and example released.

(Source) Press

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After all the controversies surrounding the iPorn app, bet you didn’t know that it servers hosting the server eventually got scorched! Well, apparently they did and with all the controversy tied up to it, the iPorn app for the iPhone or the iPod Touch has been pulled out over at the app store.

The app showcased 2,200 of the “Hottest Girls” which cost only $2 to download. But the decision to pull it out was not because of the server issue but more of some loose ends on the area of inappropriate content.

Apple will not distribute applications that contain inappropriate content. The developer of this application added inappropriate content directly from their server after the application had been approved and distributed, and after the developer had subsequently been asked to remove some offensive content. This was a direct violation of the terms of the iPhone Developer Program. The application is no longer available on the App Store

(Source) Cleveland Leader

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