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While rumors surfaced a couple weeks back suggesting that Apple had two new iPhone models in the works, at least one thing is for sure: Pegatron Technology , a notebook maker in line to supply parts for the upcoming iPhone, has been given a 15 million-unit order for the iPhone 5, with shipping to start in September 2011. . . . → Read More: Rumor: 15 Million Apple iPhone 5s Set To Ship In September

According to a Reuters report , the connection between cellphones and some types of cancer is considerably murkier. A team of scientists writing in Environmental Health Perspectives noted that: “Although there remains some uncertainty, the trend in the accumulating evidence is increasingly against the hypothesis that mobile phone use can cause brain tumors in adults.” This follows the WHO’s study, released two months ago, that found cellphones to be possibly carcinogenic. The report found that the chances of cancer caused by cellphone radiation is so small that it is statistically insignificant and that futher study is needed. . . . → Read More: Cellphones: Now Causing Less Cancer

It’s looking like Samsung and Apple got a bit carried away there for a while. . . . → Read More: Samsung Drops One Of Its Many Law Suits Against Apple

Ah-hah! There we go. Just days ago we were pointing out how strange it was that Foursquare still didn’t have a proper Windows Phone 7 application (especially as Microsoft had touted Foursquare around as a partner since the very beginning), and now they’ve gone and made things right. Following Gowalla into the Windows Phone fray by less than a week, Foursquare has just pushed their official WP7 application into Microsoft’s Marketplace . . . → Read More: Foursquare Finds Its Way To Windows Phone 7

We’ve got good news and bad news, Playbook owners with AT&T BlackBerry handsets. The good news: You know that Bridge app that you need running on your handset to get e-mail or calendar functionality on your Playbook? . . . → Read More: AT&T Finally Approves The BlackBerry Bridge App Required For Playbook Owners

The saga continues, but at least this time we get to giggle at the tech giants’ use of sarcasm. Entangled in a patent battle with Apple , Samsung has switched up its approach to the copycat case, dropping two patents and adding another four. The South Korea-based company is also snarkily redefining the meaning of the word “copying,” opting for the less leechy term, “competing.” According to the freshly filed paperwork, “the Samsung Defendants admit that they have not ceased competing with Apple, notwithstanding Apple’s efforts to avoid such competition.” The four new patents Apple is supposedly infringing upon include “portable telephone and method of displaying data thereof;” a “portable composite communication terminal for transmitting/receiving and images, and operation method and communication system thereof;” a “method of controlling digital image processing apparatus for efficient reproduction of digital image processing apparatus using the method;” and a “multi-tasking apparatus and method in portable terminal.” What a mouthful . . . → Read More: Samsung To Apple: You Say “Copyist,” We Say “Competition”

Clearly the Android Market is growing rapidly, and there’s no reason to even mention the Apple App Store , which just breezed by the 100,000 iPad app marker. . . . → Read More: Windows Phone Marketplace Reaches 25K Apps

Clearly, theft is wrong. But what about that ethical grey area? . . . → Read More: Homeless Man Arrested For Using Private Outlet To Charge Phone

In response to this morning’s Open Letter from a purportedly “high level” RIM employee addressed to the co-CEOs of the company, RIM sent over the following statement: An “Open Letter” to RIM’s senior management was published anonymously on the web today and it was attributed to an unnamed person described as a “’high level employee”. It is obviously difficult to address anonymous commentary and it is particularly difficult to believe that a “high level employee” in good standing with the company would choose to anonymously publish a letter on the web rather than engage their fellow executives in a constructive manner, but regardless of whether the letter is real, fake, exaggerated or written with ulterior motivations, it is fair to say that the senior management team at RIM is nonetheless fully aware of and aggressively addressing both the company’s challenges and its opportunities. RIM recently confirmed that it is nearing the end of a major business and technology transition . . . → Read More: RIM Responds To The Open Letter From A “High-Level” Employee, Doubts Its Authenticity