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Wal-Mart Cuts the iPhone Price to $97

Wal-Mart must be serious about those price rollbacks, and not just on produce. Starting on Tuesday, a 16 GB iPhone costs $97 with a two-year AT&T contract or qualified upgrade at more than 1,800 Wal-Mart stores.

The price cut suggests that a new model of the iPhone will be revealed at the Apple developers conference next month in San Francisco, prompting retailers like Wal-Mart to clear out the old model to make room for the new.

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Nokia, Opera side with Adobe on Flash

Nokia and Opera Software have taken sides in the Adobe-Apple battle over Flash multimedia support: They are in the Flash camp.

On Thursday executives from Nokia, the world’s largest maker of cell phones, and Opera Software, the maker of a leading mobile browser, said they’d support the new Flash 10.1 software that is coming out. Opera’s co-founder Jon von Tetzchner was quoted as saying “It is the only proprietary part of the Web we support.”

Getting these two companies on board, as well as Google’s Android, which also supports the software, is a big win for Adobe Systems in its battle against Apple. Last month Apple CEO Steve Jobs knocked the Adobe Flash multimedia software, which is used in most Web video and games, for being proprietary, sapping battery power, not supporting multitouch interfaces, posing security risks, and being unstable. “Flash is the No. 1 reason Macs crash,” Jobs said in his open letter detailing the many reasons that Apple doesn’t support the software.

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