Why Apple Might Release Two iPhones This Fall

A new iPhone is approaching — this, everyone knows. While WWDC came and went without an announcement, this was expected. Instead, this year it will be all about the fall — with new hardware hitting just in time for the formal launch of iOS 5. But what exactly will the new hardware be? An “iPhone 5″ or an “iPhone 4S”? Or, better yet, both?

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CHART OF THE DAY: A Tale Of Two Smartphone Companies (RIMM, GOOG)

When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone on Jan. 9, 2007, the mobile industry changed forever. All of a sudden, software and user interfaces mattered on mobile devices. It was a turning point for many companies.

Some, like Palm and Motorola, started to crash almost immediately. Others, like Nokia, took longer.

Research In Motion, which makes BlackBerry devices, actually did very well for a long time, capturing a lot of the market with email- and messaging-focused phones, strong carrier promotion, and a solid corporate base.

But RIM has suffered recently as it has been unable to compete with Apple and Google Android in the lucrative high end of the smartphone market. Its growth has been coming from selling cheaper phones overseas, and U.S. carriers aren't promoting RIM devices like they used to.

Meanwhile, Taiwan-based HTC has been one of the more exciting stories in the industry. It made an early bet on Google Android and has been riding it to success. Earlier this year, HTC passed RIM in market cap. (Data courtesy Capital IQ.)

Continued success isn't guaranteed for HTC, of course. Samsung has been rising fast in the Android market, and HTC still hasn't shown it's going to be a threat in the tablet business.

But it seems to be in much better shape than RIM, which is struggling to stay relevant in the early stages of a big, risky platform change -- as it moves away from the old BlackBerry software to a new OS called QNX.

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comScore: Number of U.S. Mobile Display Advertisers More than Doubles in Past Two Years

comScore,latest results of a U.S. study on mobile advertising, found that the number of advertisers using mobile display ad campaigns has more than doubled in the past two years, with mobile content and publishing accounting for half of all products advertised on mobile devices.

comScore: Number of U.S. Mobile Display Advertisers More than Doubles in Past Two Years

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Here Are The Two 4G Phones AT&T; Is Launching Today (T)

AT&T is launching two 4G phones today: the Samsung Infuse and HP Veer.

The Infuse runs Android 2.2 Froyo and supports a massive (and gorgeous) 4.5-inch touchscreen. You can get it starting today for $199.99 with a two-year contract.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, HP's Veer 4G is a super-tiny 2.5-inch touchscreen phone with a slide-out keyboard. It runs WebOS. The Veer will cost you $99.99 on a two-year contract.

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Comment on Table for Two and a Tablet, Please by Magic

We have a restaurant with these built in to the table (basically) in London - Inamo. OLD NEWS

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I wonder why don't they just let consumers order the food through their smartphones? I mean, the restaurant will not have to buy it. Any consumer that has the app can use it to order, make payments etc.

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Third Yahoo M&A; Boss Quits In Two Years (YHOO)

Yahoo's head of M&A, Taylor Barada, is leaving for Zynga, Kara Swisher at All Things D reports.

This is the second head of M&A Yahoo has lost in the last year. Previously, Andrew Siegel left Yahoo to move back to his family in New York and work for Conde Nast parent company Advance Publications.

Prior to Siegel, Yahoo's M&A boss was Greg Mrva. He left in the fall of 2009.

Leading M&A at Yahoo isn't the best job in the world right now. It can't spend big bucks on sexy acquisitions, and it has trouble convincing companies to join Yahoo.

For instance, Yahoo couldn't close the deal on buying Foursquare last year. It also rejected by Groupon after making a low ball offer.

On the plus side ... Yahoo is about to dump Yahoo Japan, so it might have a pile of cash to play with for whoever takes over the M&A gig.

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