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It looks like those battery issues along with the release of the iPad 2 in Verizon stores on Friday have pushed back the HTC ThunderBolt release date yet again.

Verizon has confirmed that it will be stop offering unlimited data plans for the iPhone by summer of this year.

Consider this your final reminder. Verizon's iPhone 4 will finally go on sale to the general public tomorrow starting at 7am.

It looks like the orders of those who managed to pre-order a Verizon iPhone 4 have begun to arrive. Got yours yet?

AT&T has fired back at the Verizon iPhone 4 with a new ad that mocks the CDMA iPhone's inability to perform simultaneous voice and data.

It's official. Verizon is now completely sold out of iPhone 4 pre-orders. Those who didn't place an order must now wait until February 10th to purchase one.

Sure enough:

networksetup -setairportnetwork Airport 'Your SSID Here' 'Network Pa$$wOrd Here'

did just what I wanted, and it did not require an administrator password or sudo. If you need to get a listing of all of the current Wi-Fi networks which are broadcasting SSIDs, you can use 'airport -s' for a list which will also show what security measures are used.

By the way, if you aren't familiar with networksetup, you should definitely read up on it. It has a lot of features that could come in handy. It also wields a great amount of power, so be careful. The command listed above is fairly innocuous but there is a lot more it can do.

The day has arrived, folks. Verizon and Apple has confirmed that the Wi-Fi version of the iPad will be available from Verizon starting on October 28th.

It appears as though AT&T is experiencing some major upload speed issues today in some pretty major markets. That or they have decided to cap upload data speeds. Let's hope it's the former.

It appears very, very likely that the iPhone will be landing on Verizon Wireless sometime in January of next year. Go ahead, get excited.

When grandkids ask their grandparents, years from now, "Where were you when you heard that MIchael Jackson died?" a surprising number of them will respond, "On Twitter." Or, on my iPhone, or my BlackBerry or my laptop.

Strangely hidden from the casual user is a spiffy command line utility that allows you to view, configure, and troubleshoot your Mac's wireless connection. It doesn't appear to be well documented, and judging by the obscure location of the command, Apple probably didn't think it would be too useful for the average Mac user. But the hidden command line airport tool is very useful indeed, so here is how to access it, and how you can use it too.

The first thing you'll want to do is create a symbolic link to the airport command, because it is situated in a very inconvenient location for quick usage.

iPhone connects to Microsoft Exchange right out of the box. It supports Cisco IPSec VPN and WPA2 Enterprise with 802.1X authentication. And it makes quick work of configuration and enterprisewide deployment. Find out how easily iPhone fits into your enterprise environment.

Parrot recently teamed with designer Philippe Starck to unveil some stylish and rather pricey wireless iPod speakers. These speakers are known as Zikmu and they will price around $1,500 when they become available this spring.

A whole lot has been happening in iPhone-land lately. The 3G iPhone is now available unlocked…in China. If you want to write a nasty note about an iPhone Application, you're going to have to pay for it first. Lastly, Apple has lowered the number of iPhones it will manufacture this year, but has raised the number it thinks it will sell.