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Apple will sell its newly unveiled tablet-style iPad starting at $499.
The iPad resembles an iPhone, but larger. Apple will sell some iPad models with data plans from AT&T, with no contract required.
Apple Inc. will have to convince consumers, [...]

Google’s end run around Apple’s App Store is complete: Google Voice is ready as a Web application.
Owners of the iPhone and Palm’s WebOS devices can now get in on the mobile Google Voice experience with the Web app, which will run in the browsers of iPhones with the 3.0 software installed and all Palm WebOS [...]

If its engineers hew to recent history, Apple’s tablet computer may look nothing like what the prognosticators foresee.
The speculative madness surrounding Apple’s rumored tablet computer has finally reached its frothy peak.
Tech’s chattering classes are obsessed with the unconfirmed product, which Apple (AAPL) may announce at an event in January, or February, or March, depending on [...]

Microsoft’s feisty little search service, Bing, has finally made an iPhone app, which is now up on the Apple iTunes app store.
Bing showed off the free app at a party thrown by its mobile team in San Francisco on Tuesday night. Information about the new app is also now on Microsoft’s Bing blog here.
Its description [...]

Another iPhone worm has been spotted in the wild.
Unlike the previous exploitation, which merely changed a jailbroken iPhone’s wallpaper to a picture of Rick Astley of “Rickrolling” fame, this new threat allows hackers to steal sensitive information.
According to security firm Sophos, which wrote about the exploitation after a Dutch ISP spotted it late last week, [...]

More than 100,000 apps are now available for download from Apple’s App Store, making it the largest such retailer in the world.
The App Store launched in July 2008 with just 500 applications. The store is now available in 77 countries, which has contributed to what Apple said Wednesday is well over 2 billion downloads.
Apps from [...]

When a closely guarded prototype of a new Apple iPhone went missing at a huge factory here two weeks ago, an internal investigation focused on a shy, 25-year-old employee named Sun Danyong.
Mr. Sun, a college graduate working in the logistics department, denied stealing the iPhone. But he later complained to friends that he had been [...]

The next version of Apple’s web browser has hit the open waters. The company announced the final version of Safari 4 will be available for download Monday afternoon for Mac OS X and Windows from Apple’s website. The browser will also ship with Snow Leopard, the next version of Apple’s Mac OS X desktop operating [...]