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The Dvorak keyboard layout, though around for decades, is little-known among the general typing population. Dvorak devotees feel the layout is now being ignored by smartphone makers.

If you're looking to get your hands on an iPhone 3G, AT&T is offering refurbished ones for $49 (8 GB) and $99 (16GB) while supplies last. Not bad, but you'll still have to pay full price for the...

There is no question that mobile browsing is taking off. The latest data from Opera shows that nearly 32 million people used its Opera Mini mobile browser in August, 2009, a 147 percent increase over the year before. In terms of pageviews, Opera Mini delivered 13.9 billion last month, a 235 percent annual increase. That means that each person is loading 436 pages a month on their cell phones, or 14 a day.

According to Digitimes, Microsoft will be using a "dual-platform" strategy to compete with Android and the iPhone. 6.5, due to be rolled out October 1, will stay alive just to compete with Android, while WinMo 7 will compete with the iPhone.

One big story today is that Netflix added ABC content to its streaming service (it actually did this a couple days ago when episodes of Lost started appearing).

Over the past few weeks, Apple has been much-maligned for keeping apps such as Google Voice off the App Store.

Apple's iPhone is continuing to enjoy a rise in global sales, despite industry-wide falls, a survey says.

Chinese worker Sun Danyong was responsible for handling the prototypes of one of the world's hottest products — the iPhone. When one of the gadgets went missing and his company began investigating him, he jumped off his apartment building and killed himself.

US technology giant Apple posts a better-than-forecast rise in quarterly results, thanks to strong iPhone sales.

Great story from iPhone ad network provider AdWhirl. Apparently the developer of one of the most popular applications for the platform ever wasn't generating any ad revenue from it for several days, missing out on up to $2000 a day according to the company's co-founder Sam Yam.