Until now the mobile version of the popular Wall Street Journal has been free, but according to CEO Murdoch that might change in the upcoming months, and the plan is to charge $2 per week for everyone that wants to have access to the mobile version of the journal.

If paying $2 per week to read news on your mobile phone is not your cup of tea there are other options, such as paying for the print version which gives you a 50% discount for the mobile version.

According to Murdoch, this move is needed to increase revenue because ads aren’t paying as much as they did in the past.

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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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It looks like Apple’s CEO had a liver transplant about two months ago in Tennessee. Steve Jobs will apparently return to work sometime later this month. Will Apple host a special event featuring Jobs at the end of June as it was speculated before?

Here’s what the Wall Street Journal is saying about the liver transplant:

William Hawkins, a doctor specializing in pancreatic and gastrointestinal surgery at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., said that the type of slow-growing pancreatic tumor Mr. Jobs had will commonly metastasize in another organ during a patient’s lifetime, and that the organ is usually the liver. “All total, 75% of patients are going to have the disease spread over the course of their life,” said Dr. Hawkins, who has not treated Mr. Jobs.

Getting a liver transplant to treat a metastasized neuroendocrine tumor is controversial because livers are scarce and the surgery’s efficacy as a cure hasn’t been proved, Dr. Hawkins added. He said that patients whose tumors have metastasized can live for as many as 10 years without any treatment so it is hard to determine how successful a transplant has been in curing the disease.

We wish all the best to Steve Jobs and we’ll be waiting to see what wild Apple products he will come up with next. When he’s good and ready of course!

via WSJ

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Will the Pre be here next Tuesday? Well that’s what a recent rumor is implying. Apparently Palm and Sprint will be ready to make an important announcement next week in the Wall Street Journal. May 19 might just be the day when the Pre finally arrives. Considering that the box and Sprint manual have just been leaked we might just officially see the Palm Pre in seven days from now. Better secure your place in a line after you break open that piggy bank that holds the cash for the Pre!

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