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Apple has signed several new deals to bring iPhone to Asia. The latest licenses to sell the iPhone have been granted to SingTel in Singapore, Bharti Airtel in India, Globe Telecom in the Philippines and Optus in Australia.

Sadly, Malaysia is not in the list just yet.

(Source: PC World)

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Apple officially announced on their web site that the new iPhone now comes in a new 16GB model at $499. The iPod touch now comes in a new 32GB model for also $499.

Now you can carry more music, photos, and videos!

The tagline for iPod touch is however sounds a little lewd — "Now there’s even more to touch." LoL!

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Good afternoon, peeps!

• College intern who used to make $7.50/hour last month, now makes $7,500 per month! How much do you make as an intern?
• iPhone invades Europe.
• New Facebook ad system raises privacy concern.
  Does Facebook invade your privacy?
• Do you always wonder why dolphins save humans from sharks?

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Good day! Happy Halloween!

• USD $1 million in prize for Halo 3 competition!
• Feds work magic in Copperfield case.
• In most cases, during a hunt, man shoots something. In this one, dog shoots man.
• Move over iPhone, Google to come out with its own cellphone! Gphone will come with most Google applications — search, maps, YouTube, instant-messaging — on a mobile platform!

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Good afternoon! Bad news for stubborn unlocked iPhone owners.

• Altered iPhones became frozen after the latest updates! Some iPhones even turned into bricks!
• Oprah makes about USD $700k per day. That’s about 4 times more than any TV stars. How much do you make?
• Palm comes out with a new smart phone called Palm Centro.

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Great news for those who live in UK. iPhone will be released in UK earlier than expected. However, there will not be a 3G version as predicted.

After giving the impression that they are waiting for the Christmas period, Apple finally decided to announce the iPhone launch in the UK and the company set the release date for November 9.

As Financial Times previously reported, the Apple partner in UK was confirmed today as Spain’s Telefonica owned O2.

“We’re thrilled to be partnering with O2 to offer our revolutionary iPhone to UK customers,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO during the news conference held in London. “US iPhone customer satisfaction is off the charts, and we can’t wait to let UK customers get their hands on it and learn what they think of it.”

The 8GB version of the iPhone will be purchased in O2, Carphone Warehouse and Apple stores for 269 pounds (387 euros, 536 dollars) including VAT.

“Price difference with the US is mostly VAT (value added tax), and a little part of it the due to the cost of doing business being higher here,” Jobs explained.

Customers will have to sign an 18-month contract with O2, paying 35, 45 or 55 pounds a month, but they will have unlimited mobile data usage and unlimited use of 7,500 public Wi-Fi wireless Internet connections in cafes, restaurants, airport lounges and other locations across the UK operated by The Cloud.

Read the rest of iPhone To Be Launch in UK on November 9

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Good evening! Happy 50th Birthday to Malaysia!

• Nokia takes on iPhone by opening the Nokia Music Store.
• First gay couple married in Iowa!
• Spider-man did this? Monster spider web found in Texas.

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Greetings!

• Massa leads Ferrari one-two as red tide turns in Turkey. Alonso came in third while Hamilton finished fifth.
• Is it over for Brangelina? Rumors of a possible split for A-list couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are making headlines again.
• Manchester United finally got its first win of the season.
• What can you do when you were 17-year-old? This 17-year-old hacker managed to unlock iPhone’s secrets!

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Here comes the iPhone real rival, introducing HTC Touch phone - just like the name, it’s a touch screen phone just like the iPhone. The navigation is thru HTC TouchFLO™ and 5-Way navigation control. The 3D navigation thru touch screen is just revolutionary, something even an iPhone doesn’t have. HTC Touch has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 2.0 megapixel CMOS color camera, Built-in microphone and 3-in-1 speaker, and an expansion slot for microSD™ memory card. Unlike the iPhone, HTC Touch uses Windows Mobile® 6 Professional!

There is no date on the launch just yet.

For more information, visit www.htctouch.com

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• Malaysia’s jails are overcrowded. Government uses factories as temporary jail.
• Coincidentally, tomorrow will be the last day Paris Hilton will have to report herself to Century Regional Detention Facility and start serving time. Funny though, she was able to make it for the MTV Awards on Sunday.
• Apple iPhone to launch on June 29. Finally.

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