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• Verizon iPhone rumour won't die

  Gasp, another Verizon iPhone rumor surfaced this week.

• No 'Sexting' on Apple iPhone is good for business

  Apple's new anti-"sexting" patent was approved this week and despite the uproar, it may make perfect sense for businesses scared of sexual harassment lawsuits or just wanting to keep a closer eye on employee shenanigans.

• Apple's anti-sexting patent approved

  It looks like Steve Jobs' dream of family-friendly technology might just come true. On Tuesday an Apple patent for an "anti-sexting" device was approved by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

• One more time: Verizon iPhone rumored for next year

  Verizon will have the iPhone by the beginning of next year, the Wall Street Journal reports.

• iOS rises for business, Android expands among consumers

  Apple's iPhone 4 and iPad made up about half of new activations of mobile devices among businesses during the last three months, while Android smartphones again gained more marketshare, according to two new studies.

• Android now ties iPhone in consumer interest

  One year ago, if you told an average person you were thinking about buying an Android, they'd have thought you were some sort of robot-mongering madman.

• Report: Apple gives Google Voice app the nod of approval

  It looks like we'll finally be seeing an official Google Voice App for the iPhone in the App Store. TechCrunch reports that not only should we expect to see the official app in the App Store soon, but that it's already been approved by the higher-ups at Apple.

• Don't hold your breath for Verizon iPhone, says CEO

  It'll likely arrive someday, just not as soon as we'd like. Verizon Communications chief executive Ivan Seidenberg has tossed a bucket of icy water on smoldering rumors about a certain Apple smartphone coming to the largest U.S. wireless network.

• Google's Android eating away at Apple, BlackBerry lead

  Google's Android mobile operating system is slowly chipping away at the market share lead of iOS from Apple and BlackBerry from Research In Motion, according to a report from ComScore. The report highlights Android's growth this summer, noting that it was the only platform to increase its market share.

• Apple removes nail from Adobe Flash coffin

  Yesterday, Apple released a statement highlighting significant changes to their iOS Developer Program license, re-opening the platform to third-party development tools such as Adobe Flash. Additionally, Apple posted their full App Store review guidelines. The move has already been touted as a positive step towards App Store review transparency- which in the past has been criticized for its ostensible inconsistency. But why now? And what does this mean for Flash developers?

• Android overtaking iPhone and BlackBerry

  This week, research firm Gartner announced that by year's end Google's Android will rocket past both Apple's iOS and Research in Motion's Blackberry in popularity.

• Smartphone users gobbling up game apps

  Americans are increasingly stuffing their smartphones with apps, with games leading the way and productivity apps in the middle of the pack.

• Apple's new iOS 4.1: Its 4 biggest improvements

  Apple released version 4.1 of iOS, its mobile operating system, promising several new features, bug fixes, and performance improvements for users of the iPhone and iPod Touch. iOS 4.1 offers access to Game Center, FaceTime calling from the iPhone app's Favorites tab, and improved audio quality when using Bluetooth accessories -- all worthwhile improvements and additions, certainly.

• iOS 4.1 to finally fix iPhone 4 proximity sensor

  It's official. iOS 4.1 is "coming soon" for iPhone and iPod Touch users.

• Blackberry loses more ground to Apple and Android

  In a continuing trend, more businesses are shifting loyalties from Blackberry to iPhones and Android devices as the relative newcomers make inroads into the corporate world. Three-quarters of the 200 businesses surveyed in the United States and the U.K in the study reported that their employees are choosing other than Blackberry, Sanford C. Bernstein Ltd. reported to Bloomberg. The number was 83 percent for U.S. companies.