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Steve Jobs Wanted His Own Cell Carrier for the iPhone

Steve wanted to cut third-party carriers out of the equation when it came to the iPhone.

We know that Apple discussed the iPhone with several networks before launching it exclusively through AT&T. It’s also widely believed that the company was in serious talks with Verizon before eventually signing a 5-year deal with AT&T. However, what we hadn’t known up until now is that Apple CEO Steve Jobs originally wanted to launch his own network with unused Wi-Fi spectrum and bypass the carriers completely.

IDG reports that Venture Capitalist and ‘wireless industry pioneer’ John Stanton recently spoke at the Law Seminars International event in Seattle and revealed that Steve Jobs’ plan in the beginning had been to launch his own cell network.

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Google fixes Gmail bug, relaunches app for iPhone

iOS developer knocks Google for taking two weeks to patch

Google today relaunched its Gmail app for Apple’s iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, two weeks after it yanked a buggy version.

“We’ve fixed the bug and notifications are now working, and the app is back in the App Store,” said Google program manager Matthew Izatt in a post to the company’s Gmail blog today.

Izatt cautioned users who had downloaded and installed the original Gmail app to either delete it or log out of the app before installing the new version.

Computerworld followed Izatt’s instructions, then downloaded and installed Gmail 1.0.2: Unlike the original, the new version did not display an error message related to notifications.

Two weeks ago, Google was forced to pull its first take on Gmail for iOS after acknowledging it had “messed up” by issuing flawed software.

At the time, David Girouard, Google’s vice president of apps and the company’s top executive for its enterprise group, issued an apology on Twitter and Google+.

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