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Well, it official. The iPhone 3G is legitimately coming to Thailand. In a recent interview, I had stated that I had some doubts that the iPhone would come to Thailand so soon, citing that they did not have any confirmed deals for content, which is what really rakes in the money in the whole iPhone money machine. But soon after that interview, there were some events which hinted towards a Thailand launch. It now looks like the baby brother in Thailand's trio of major phone operators, True Move, who is often over looked or forgotten, has sealed the deal with Apple. Commenting on the question of what happened to their rumored deal, AIS has stated that the deal with TrueMove is nonexclusive, leaving the door open for speculation that AIS is still in negotiations with Apple.

While usually well-intentioned, geeks are often awkward in social situations. (No, Facebook doesn't count.) We're talking about face-to-face conversation. Short of a permanent power outage, it might be the geek's worst nightmare.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs used the D8 Conference on Tuesday to air his views on a variety of issues, including Adobe Flash, Google, AT&T, and the next-gen iPhone controversy. In a Q&A with audience members and an interview with the Wall Street Journal , Jobs spoke his mind.

A lot of developers have struggled with the iPhone's accelerometer-based controls, but Top Gun's controls are fast and responsive. What's your secret?

This morning a few tech blogs are highlighting some choice quotes from a Melinda Gates interview that appears in the most recent issue of Vogue. According to the Vogue piece, the couple has forbidden their three children from using iPods and iPhones and has made their home a no iPod/iPhone zone (no word on other Apple products).

According to a recent interview given by Melinda Gates, wife of Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) pioneer Bill Gates, Apple's iPhone and iPod are two devices that are not permitted in the Gates household.

Today must be BlackBerry humor day. Jerry Seinfeld who performed at the Palm Pre launch VIP party/event, disses rude BlackBerry users who look at their BlackBerry smartphones during a a conversation in an interview with Conan O'Brien.

GigaOM interviewed Mozilla CEO Jon Lily at the Play conference, an event at the Haas School of Business at the University of Berkeley. There, Lily hinted that Mozilla would be submitting an app to the App Store.

Dell has succeeded in developing a deeper connect with its partners by virtue of its long-standing in the market as a channel friendly company and also for the strong initiatives taken to support its channel base

Apple will introduce a new iPhone in 2010 that will employ a touch-sensitive plastic back casing similar to the one used on the company's new Magic Mouse, one analyst has said.

Shares of OmniVision Technologies Inc. soared Friday afternoon after the maker of image sensors said its third-quarter profit rose almost eight-fold, beating Wall Street expectations.

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Potentially bad news now if you happen to be an avid tech consumer in the United States holding back on an iPhone purchase while waiting for AT&T's current exclusivity deal and its lock-in policy to come to an end.

As the Internet works its way further into pop culture, sites like YouTube and Twitter pop up more and more in the routines of late-night shows like Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Fallon and last night, David Letterman and Jon Stewart. Digits can't get enough of 'em.

Skype, the Internet telephone unit of eBay Inc, is planning to launch its service for iPhone users on Tuesday and for BlackBerry in May as part of its effort to expand beyond desktop computers.

For those wondering about Stephen Elop's suggestions that Office is coming to the iPhone, let me be unequivocal. It is.

Leading UK telecom service provider O2 has yet to clarify whether it will allow its users to unlock their iPhone devices once their contracts with O2 expire.

The Zune HD has piqued our interest as an iPod touch competitor, but it seems Microsoft's plans to take on Apple in the portable multimedia player market run deeper.

Apple has reportedly begun shipping iPhone 3GS units with a new bootrom, which might help combat hacks enabling installation of unauthorized software. However, iPhone hackers say Apple's new firmware only causes a temporary inconvenience for jailbroken devices, and the handset is still hackable.

When he was 17, George Hotz poured hundreds of hours of his summer vacation into a special project: learning the iPhone's secrets. His unpaid labor eventually paid off. With the help of a soldering iron, he was the first to unlock the iPhone, delivering the handset to international networks before Apple had a chance to.