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Apple, AT&T face yet another iPhone MMS lawsuit

For at least the third time this month, Apple and AT&T are being sued by a consumer complaining of being duped into believing that multimedia messaging, or MMS, was already available on the iPhone.

Filed in the Northern District of Ohio on Wednesday (PDF hosted by Wired), plaintiff Deborah Carr says Apple and AT&T misled the public into believing that the iPhone 3GS was capable of sending and receiving MMS messages on the device. The lawsuit claims that Apple’s “print and video advertisements…on television, the Internet, the radio, newspapers, and direct mailers” all mention the availability of MMS on the device.
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iPhone / BlackBerry(Storm,Bold, Curve, Pearl) Free Apps 2DAy: iDrive Lite Contact Backup

Talk about syncronycity, we just wrote an article about disaster tips and suggest contact backup and low and behold there is a free mobile app for backing up your contacts.  And the iDrive service also allows you backup up to 2 Gigabytes of data from your computer for free.

iDrive Lite installs on your BlackBerry or iPhone then it backups your contacts to the their server, which you can restore over data networks.  You can also manage your contacts on the web.  Then you can access them on the web with or with out your BlackBerry Storm or iPhone.
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