US telecoms giant AT&T has admitted that it struck a deal with Apple to prevent iPhone applications from using its network for VoIP.

VoIP allows voice calls to be routed over mobile internet but reduces a network operator’s voice call revenue.

Apple and AT&T both responded to a federal inquiry into Apple’s failure to approve Google Voice, a VoIP application for the iPhone.

Apple said that the app had not been rejected but is still under review.

In July, Apple rejected Google’s application for the Google Voice app to be sold in its App Store, and removed several third-party applications that leveraged the same technology.

The app is already available on Blackberrys and phones that run both Google’s Android and the Symbian operating system.

Apple’s move prompted an inquiry from the US’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

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Satnav giant TomTom has officially launched an Application for Apple’s iPhone and will be available for £60 at the popular online store as from today.

Navigon and Copilot have already released their Satnav applications for the iPhone and TomTom’s version – which was first demoed at Apple’s WWDC – costs roughly twice as much although it packs some nice features to justify the price.

Amongst those are the IQ Routes technology which compares your planned journey to a database of “best case scenarios” compiled by TomTom users, automatic re-routing, a safety camera database for a number of European countries, point of interest searching as well as full iPhone optimisation (that includes pinch and zoom in as well as multitouch functionality).
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Full Name: Steven Paul Jobs

Date of Birth: born February 24, 1955

Who is Steve Jobs?

Steve is an American businessman, co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc.

Steve Created Apple with co-founder Steve Wozniak, created one of the first commercially successful personal computers in the late 1970s.

Jobs attended Cupertino Junior High School and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California,

He was soon hired there and worked with Steve Wozniak as a summer employee.

Steve graduated from high school and enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 1972.

He is a vegetarian.

Steve Jobs was listed as Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Businessman of 2007.

In mid-January 2009, Steve was given a 5 month’s leave of absence from Apple to undergo a liver transplant.
According to Forbes, Steve is worth a whopping $3.4 billion

He usually wears a black long-sleeved mock turtleneck made by St. Croix, Levi’s 501 blue jeans, and New Balance 991 sneakers.

Jobs married Laurene Powell, on March 18, 1991, the couple have three children. Jobs also has a daughter,
Lisa Brennan-Jobs (born 1978), from his relationship with Bay Area painter Chrisann Brennan.

In 2005, Steve Jobs banned all books published by John Wiley & Sons from Apple Stores in response to their publishing an unauthorized biography, iCon: Steve Jobs.

Job’s aggressive and demanding personality is been questioned by the public, he “is considered one of Silicon Valley’s leading egomaniacs.

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