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Blackberry squares up to iPhone

According to Reuters , RIM , the Canadian based makers of the Blackberry , are due to launch a touch screen version of the smartphone later this year , in a move designed to more directly face the competition from the iPhone..

iPhone heads north to Canada

Apple has recently announced that the iPhone will become available in Canada later this year through Rogers,although nothing about timetable or pricing plans.

Rogers was always expected to be the carrier as they are the only one of the three telecom operators in Canada ( the others being Bell and Telus) that could support the iPhone.

Unfortunately it is not all unbounded joy .....

Apple help launch fund for iPhone developers

Aptly named the iFund , Apple have teamed up with a firm of venture capitalists to launch a $100 million fund which will invest in software developers who come up with good business ideas for the iPhone.

iPhone shows Apple class

Figures are showing that the iphone is way ahead of its rivals in internet usage , despite a pretty small market share. It is showing that the premise behind being able to use the phone as a web browser really can work , and when it does it really can change the way people use the Internet.

New Year trojan for iphone

The US's dept. of Homeland Security has flagged up a potential virus for the iphone by way of reports it has received of a trojan software program . Full details given below.
The term trojan refers to any software that appears to do one thing but actually does another , hence the name. It doesn't have to be a virus or malicious code , but normally is.
Other reports suggest this trojan only affects iphones that have been already been hacked.