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A leading UK online execution-only broker TD Waterhouse announced the launch of a special app for iPhone and iPod touch.

Customers can download the TD Trading App for free and use it to pace equity investment trades on 15 international markets in nine different currencies. When in their account users can instantly access their portfolio summaries, obtain live quotes and create a specific Watch List to monitor potential opportunities in real time.

China Unicom to launch its own smartphone line later this month. The new line of mobile devices are meant to rival Apple’s iPhone as well as Android handsets, as reported by the company spokeswoman.

A new smartphone called Wophone runs a proprietary operating system, announced by the company in March. Being the second largest mobile carrier in China, China Unicom has 180 million users. It faces strict competition in an app store business from Apple and Android vendors.

China Telecom Corp Ltd will offer its customers the Apple iPhone by the end of the current year, report the sources familiar with the matter.

The introduction of the Jesus Phone is expected to help China Telecom, which is the smallest operator in China, attract more 3G users.

"The reason telecom operators are fighting for the iPhone business is because everybody is trying to grab as many 3G users as possible," said Jane Wang, an analyst at UK-based research firm Ovum. "The only way to keep costs down is to build up such a user base."

According to a survey conducted by Retrevo 34% of iPhone owners believe they have a 4G enabled smartphone because of “4” in the iPhone 4 name. Supposedly they are get deceived by the previous models 3G and 3GS.

Meantime, 42% of Blackberry users also believe their phones are 4G, but that is impossible. On the other hand, 61% of iPhone owners disregard if their phones are 4G enabled and they will buy the following iPhone model irrespective of the feature. Blackberry and Android users are also interested in the new iPhone, regardless of 4G speeds.

According to a new survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project more and more American users have smartphones. However, a significant 40% of them still prefer simple mobile phones to make calls and do text messaging with no need in an app store or Angry Birds.

The survey found that over 35% of adult Americans use some models of smartphone including an iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone 7, or WebOS device.

John Carmack from id Software was talking about the future of mobile gaming, reports The Register. He explained why “why tablets, smartphones and cloud-gaming services such as OnLive will become the dominant gaming platforms.”

"It’s unquestionable that within a very short time, we’re going to have portable cell phones that are more powerful than the current-gen consoles," he said.

A bug was disclosed in Apple’s software that could be exploited by criminals to gain control over iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices.

On Wednesday the website www.jailbreakme.com released code that Apple customers can use to modify the iOS operating system through jaibreaking. Many Apple customers jailbreak their devices so that they could download and run applications that are not approved by Apple or use iPhone phones on networks of carriers that are not approved by Apple.

An expert Paul Hochman noted at a conference Forward with Ford 2011 that the closed ecosystem that brought billions of dollars to Apple would kill the company after all, reports CNET.

The analyst believes that Apple made a big mistake by having chosen a closed system because it would lead the company to the collapse.

Facebook is about to unveil a new feature next week, most likely in the mobile or tablet sector, said Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the social networking giant.

In a visit to Facebook's Seattle office on Wednesday, Zuckerberg told reporters that the company plans to "launch something awesome" next week.

The project has been designed at the 40-person Seattle office, Facebook's only major engineering center outside of its Palo Alto, California, said Zuckerberg.

A new application appeared on the iTunes store to allow users to spy on their children or family members who own the iPhone. Spykey application is Windows based and is basically a keylogger that transmits every key pressed to an iPhone application (£2.99 from the iTunes store).

In the description you may read that the application is discovering cheating partners or protecting children.

Previously Apple delisted applications that spy on iPhone users. Thus, Retina's Mobile Spy, for example, is now restricted to jailbroken iPhones.

A provider of Internet and mobile payment solutions Adyen announced the launch of a single-click mobile payment solution for iPhone and Android. Using the new platform app developers at the iTunes have an alternative payment gateway that accepts credit cards, PayPal and a range of other payment methods within mobile applications and mobile websites.

Tailored for mobile environment Adyen payment platform eliminates the need for merchants and developers to care for security and PCI compliance.

Kaspersky Lab has developed an app for the iPhone to allow users to fight blocker programs that restrict the access to PCs and through racketeering require to pay for being unlocked. Kaspersky Deblocker provides users with the code to get rid of the blocking banner without paying any money to cyber criminals. The app can be downloaded from the App Store.

A new app dubbed QuickGoogle allows users of the jailbroken iPhones and iPads to invoke Google search at any time from any place of the OS.

Now users won’t have to go back to the home page, open the browser, select the search bar. Using any Activator option - pressing either slide in the status line, or the Home button, or shaking the iPhone – they can call the special query box.

Pressing the Google button a user activates Safari browser with the search results.

A designer Dorian Darcourt has offered his concepts of the oncoming next generations of the iPhone. The main idea that differs its concept from the current iPhone 4 is a larger screen resolution within unchanged body size.

In the first concept the screen diagonal is about 4” while it fits into the old housing body due to the thinner edges. The rear camera is placed opposite to the flash cell. Instead of the conventional home button there is a touch pad under the screen. One more innovation was a more stylish silver color instead of a white case.

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc, announced cloud services this week at Worldwide Developers' Conference on Monday. The services are meant to help customers store more of their photos, music and other data online. Jobs showed off new Apple products for consumers to keep their iPhones, iPads and computers in sync.

"We're going to move the digital hub, the center of your digital life, into the cloud," Jobs said. "Everything happens automatically and there's nothing new to learn. It just all works."