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Rumors that Walmart would begin selling the iPhone soon have been around for a few days and we now have an answer thanks to Bloomberg. Yes, you'll be able to get an iPhone at Walmart, and probably by Christmas. Store representatives at several locations confirmed that employees are being trained to sell the handset, which will hit shelves by the end of the month. This makes Walmart the second retail chain to sell the iPhone, and also the largest.

Google Inc.'s Android mobile phone platform is already making inroads into the mobile applications market Apple Inc. dominates via its iPhone, a research firm told Bloomberg.

Australian casino operators are on the lookout for people using new iPhone applications to cheat at blackjack by counting cards.

The work at Adobe Systems toward getting its nearly ubiquitous Flash technology onto the Apple iPhone goes on…and on, and on.

BCE Inc.'s Bell Canada and Telus Corp. reached agreements with Apple Inc. to sell the iPhone, stepping up competition with Rogers Communications Inc., which has held the exclusive right to sell the device in Canada.

Apple has one of the most popular smartphones on the market with the iPhone. The part that is so impressive is that Apple has managed to become one of the largest smartphone makers in the world on the back off relatively few iPhone SKUs whereas other makers like Nokia have hoards of devices to offer.