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Verizon Support Preparing for iPhone Bugs?

Apple Inc. (AAPL) Rumors – Verizon Support Preparing for iPhone Bugs?
New job postings may hint at Verizon iPhone

Here is your daily Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) stock news and rumors for October 25, 2010. A new hiring push at customer service call centers used by Verizon and Apple is the latest sign pointing toward the Verizon iPhone. Meanwhile, Apple is set to open their new billion dollar data center in North Carolina. Finally, Nintendo acknowledges that Steve Jobs’s company is the biggest threat to the Nintendo 3DS.

Verizon Hires Hundreds to (Presumably) Prepare for iPhone Launch: New job postings linked to Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) are stoking new rumors of a Verizon iPhone from Apple and the telecom giant. According to a report from CNET, staffing companies Ryla and Teleperformances are hiring hundreds of new employees for customer service phone call centers on behalf of a “major wireless phone service retailer. The job postings listed at website Careerbuilder say that applicants will offer technical support for “personal computers and portable devices like MP3 players and smartphones.” While the postings are vague enough to indicate that telecoms are simply bulking up to accommodate the millions of new smartphone users subscribing through a variety of carriers, its Teleperformances history working with Apple and Verizon specifically that lends credence to the conclusion that these new hires signify movement from those companies in concert.

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‘Bed Intruder’ guy shills sex offender app

The Internet’s favorite outraged citizen dons his now-infamous red kerchief and black tank top to54 give us the 911 on BeenVerified.com’s Sex Offender Tracker App for iPhone and Android.

“Are you still hiding yo kids, hiding yo wife and hiding yo husband?” Antoine Dodson asks at the top of app ad, hitting money quote take away from the news clip, and the chorus to the Gregory Brothers’ Auto-Tune the News “Bed Intruder Song,” hit — which Dodson performed for the first time earlier this month at the BET’s 2010 Hip Hop Awards. “Now you and yo peeps can be aware of any of those nasty bed intruders in your hood!”

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