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• 05 August 2011

• News: Rumour: Next-generation iPhone to be 4G ready

  The next-generation iPhone, due to be announced in September, could be 4G ready, according to reports.

• News: Find My Mac, Find My iPhone go live in iCloud.com beta

  The Find My Mac and Find My iPhone features are now live on the iCloud.com developer beta, it has been reported.

• News: Clearwire plans LTE network, seeks $600M

  Due to a reporting error, the story, "Clearwire plans LTE network, seeks $600M," posted to the wire on Wednesday, incorrectly stated the range of average speeds that Clearwire reported from its LTE testing. Clearwire reported average speeds of 50M bps to 90M bps.

• News: one2free launches first 4G LTE service in Hong Kong

  one2free introduced Hong Kong's first 4G LTE mobile broadband service, the service provider said Wednesday.

• News: Remains of the Day: Droning on

  Wild patents are attacking Google; film at 11! The Magic Mouse is doomed... or is it? And when there's no news, just reprint old rumors with a slight tweak. Plus, who gave a news mogul an unmanned drone? The remainders for Thursday, August 4, 2011 are cleared for takeoff.

• 04 August 2011

• News: After Google rant on Android patents, Microsoft tweets: 'Really?'

  In an escalation of the patent battles over Andoird, Microsoft said it urged Google's legal team to join it in buying up hundreds of Nortel patents, but Google refused.

• News: Renowned board game Puerto Rico now shipping on iPad

  When I was growing up, we had Monopoly and Life and Sorry and we were happy—but only because we were ignorant of the sphere of more sophisticated board games unfolding beyond our reach. With the release of Ravensburger’s Puerto Rico HD, one of the best board games of the last decade makes its way to the iPad—and Battleship it ain’t.

• News: The Week in iOS Accessories: Stop. Look. Listen.

  Stop. Look. Listen. This week's roundup of iOS accessories allows you to do all those things—and more. Here are some of the new accessories that have popped up on our radar recently.

• News: Leaked Verizon Document Reveals Key Launch Dates

  September and October could be big months for Verizon Wireless, as it launches several high-end smartphones and new tablets, according to a leaked document.

• News: Android Users Least Prepared for Rise in Mobile Malware

  An explosion in mobile malware in the first half of 2011 has exponentially increased the chance of an Android device getting infected according to one study. Unfortunately for Android users, another study shows that they are the least aware of security concerns and least prepared to protect their smartphone or tablet from malware.

• News: Google Exec Says 'Hostile' Patent Campaign Targets Android

  Google’s top legal officer lashed out at Apple, Microsoft, Oracle and other companies on Wednesday, accusing them of fighting a “hostile, organized campaign against Android.”

• News: RIM strikes back with new BlackBerry Torch smartphone

  Reports of BlackBerry’s imminent demise are looking a little premature today with the announcement by RIM of a formidable quintet of new handsets, all of which will run BlackBerry 7, an updated version of the company’s smartphone OS.

• News: Vonage launches cheap international calls app

  Vonage has launched an app for Apple iPhones that allows users to make international calls up to 15 minutes long for under £1.50.

• News: Skype enables video on more Android smartphones

  Skype has released version 2.1 of its application for Android, which allows more smartphones and tablets based on Google's operating system to use its video calling feature, it said in a blog post on Thursday.

• News: 37% of smartphone owners are 'highly addicted' to their handset

  More than a third (37 percent) of adult and 60 percent of teenage smartphone owners claim they are 'highly addicted' to their handset, says Ofcom.

• News: Apple 'orders 10 million iPhone 5 units'

  Taiwanese manufacturer Pegatron has received an order for 10 million iPhone 5 units, according to reports.

• 03 August 2011

• News: Digital book developer Push Pop Press sells to Facebook

  The digital book frontier has lost a pioneering company with Facebook’s acquisition of Push Pop Press. The San Francisco-based start-up, which launched in February this year, aimed to “re-imagine the book”; its first product was the iOS app of Al Gore’s book, Our Choice. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

• News: RIM's new BlackBerry Torches: Specs are right, but what about the OS?

  The two new BlackBerry Torch models unveiled by RIM today feature impressive specifications, but their success may hinge on how well RIM's new operating system functions.

• News: Updated BlackBerry lineup debuts: thinner, faster, touchier

  The Bold gets a touchscreen, and the Torch gets one model with a large screen

• News: New BlackBerry Torch Guns for the iPhone Again

  Research In Motion is pushing its fourth attempt to dethrone Apple's iPhone with the new all-touchscreen BlackBerry Torch 9850/9860. The new smartphone is the biggest BlackBerry yet with a 3.7-inch display, and continues the legacy of RIM's keyboardless Storm phones, albeit with a revamped BlackBerry 7 OS, which sports a redesigned virtual keyboard.

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