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ITEXPO West begins in: 35 Days. REGISTER NOW!   Featured Articles » How to Keep Wandering, Fidgety Fingers from Jeopardizing Your Apple Device » TomTom Unveils Enhanced Navigation App for iPhone, iPad » CellTrust SecureSMS-Users are Protected Against iOS SMS Glitch » Logic Solutions and Genisys Credit Union Announce Launch of Genisys Mobile Banking App for Apple Devices   Sponsored By: Mobility Tech Conference & Expo The Mobility Tech Conference & Expo explores how today's powerful mobile Internet ecosystem expands the range of services and applications being delivered to businesses and consumers. The conference focuses on how carriers, service providers, equipment manufacturers, vendors, and others, will meet unprecedented demand for mobile broadband services. Like wireline, mobile Internet devices are going to connect wirelessly using any network available. The key to profitability is to balance 4G/LTE and Wi-Fi growth with existing alternatives. Come spend three incredibly productive days with peers exploring the "bring your own device" consumer world and its ever-increasing population of mobile broadband users.   Top Stories » PLAiR Wins Seed Funding, to Launch Flagship Product » Drive Power App Unveils a Smartphone App that Rewards Safe Driving » Fortinet Intros FortiClient Application for iOS, Android Platforms » Maxthon Web Browser Now Available for iPhone   From The Expert Corner August 27, 2012 LG Display Beginning Mass Production of In-Cell Screens, Possibly for iPhone 5? By Oliver VanDervoort Contributing Writer It seems as if there is nothing but buzz surrounding the impending release of the iPhone (News - Alert) 5. Apple is never going to be a company that lets a lot of official information leak, so we rely on component producers to keep us informed about what is going on in the iDevice world.  The newest tidbits we have gotten recently all seem to be about who is making the screen for the new phone. Earlier this month a report circulated that Sharp had begun mass-producing screens and was getting ready to ship those to Apple (News - Alert). Now a new report says that LG has begun putting together ultra-thin displays that come complete with the in-cell technology that many think will be a big hit with Apple fans. LG Display was more than willing to discuss details about its role in the production of the iPhone 5. CEO Han Sang-beom told a collection of journalists last Thursday that his company had begun putting these new displays into mass production. While some believe that the screen for the iPhone 5 is actually going to be bigger in length, the in-cell technology allows the main display and the screen’s touch sensors to be included on the same layer of display, making the screen thinner... Read More   From The Blogs Apple Wins: Can The Game Change? August 25, 2012 By: Carl Ford It was not even close.  The jury said yes to almost every single infringement Apple could think of short of the claim of making a tablet rectangular was Steve’s idea.  From Apple’s perspective it could not have a better launching pad for the iPhone5 as Samsung will not be able to ship anything and the rest of the Android community will be leery of being targeted if they launch a marketing campaign. Even if Samsung gets the judge to overturn (some claims seem to far stretched to me about design but interaction claims look valid), or appeals to a higher court it is going to make for wounded marketing effort.  The only thing that went right from Samsung’s side is the $1B damages were a third of what it could have been... Read More    Featured Videos DocSync Syncs all Your Clouds on an iPad    Featured Resources » Mobile Value-Added Services with Sangoma » Mobile Device Management and Bring Your Own Device in Education Environments » Rating Services in the Cloud - A Cloud Rating Strategy for "Greenfield" Mobile Operators and MVNO's   Featured Channels » Mobile Device Management » Small Cells » Mobility Tech Zone   iPhone.tmcnet.com is Your Source for the Latest iPhone News and Information   Sign Up For FREE    |    Visit Site    |    Free Magazine Subscription   Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here      Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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