Apple secrets leaked early by inside traders, arrests reveal
We don't normally cover the "business crime" beat, but there's a pretty interesting gadget angle here. As part of a larger crack down on insider trading, three technology executives and a "salesman for an 'expert network'" have been arrested for leaking confidential tips to hedge funds.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, arrests-reveal, business, crime, expert, Illegal, insider, insidertrading, k48, network, normally-cover, semiconductor, walter-shimoon
Apple acquires virtual assistant search app maker Siri
Apple has acquired Siri, a company that makes a virtual assistant app.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: acquisitions, app store, apple, assistant, calo, darpa, direction, insider, means, neighborhood, Recognition, smart, smart-search, the-acquisition
Apple rumor twofer: Expose-like multitasking in iPhone OS 4.0, international iPad launch on April 24th
We're not quite at the height of Apple frenzy, but looking at the bell curve, we're only a standard deviation or two from its zenith (we imagine the fever pitch will be in tandem with Saturday's iPad launch, if history and human nature tells us anything). Of course, that doesn't stop the rumor mill from amping up production, and so on with the show! First on the docket, remember last month's discovery of multitasking comments in the iPhone SDK 3.2 beta? Well, Apple Insider's apparently got it on word from its network of sources that OS 4.0 will in fact include multitasking, with app switching purportedly done by pressing the double-tapping the home button and selecting the appropriate active app icon.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, appleiphone, engadget, history, insider, international, result, rumors, store, taken-as-gospel
Verizon’s Nexus One could be arriving ‘by the end of next week’ (updated)
Let's start with the obvious proviso here, the above image is so painfully easy to fake that even our computer illiterate grandparents could mock one up within a few minutes. That said, it's purportedly a screenshot of a little oopsie by Google's online store, which is said to have briefly displayed the Verizon option for Nexus One handsets as available to buy for $199 plus the relevant contractual shackles.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one, Other Tags: cdma, engadget, entry, htc, insider, online, relevant, verizon, verizon-wireless
Feds: 14 charged in widening $53M Wall Street insider trading case …
After the deal was announced, Goffer destroyed the cell phone by removing the electronic card that controlled it, biting it, and throwing away the phone after breaking it in half, Khuzami said. He warned those on Wall Street who might ...
Categories: htc, Other, Phone Street Tags: classifieds, full-story, government, htc, insider, lawyer, memory, politics, rajaratnam, real-estate, sports, street, travel
A big 'no' to Clearfield mobile home park rezone
CLEARFIELD -- The city's planning commission has backed off a recommendation to eliminate a mobile home residential zone as a future land use in the city. Following more than two hours of comments Wednesday night, commissioners voted on ...
Categories: Mobile Street, Other Tags: breaking-news, city, classifieds, insider, rewardsfest, sports, standard-net, standardnet, weather, weber-county
Store owner recovering from shock of S. Ogden robbery; police …
Aragon, who owns the store at 345 E. 36th St ., said she had previously helped Adams when she worked at a mobile phone store on 7th Street
Categories: Mobile Phone, Mobile Street Tags: business, current-news, davis-county, digital-edition, driver, entertainment, insider, Mobile Phone, rewardsfest, us-news, utah-find-it, weber-county, world-news