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Steve Jobs is the CEO of the decade, according to the new issue of Fortune magazine.

What do iPhone sales have to do with Verizon you ask? Well apparently, Mr. Lowell McAdam wasn’t just visiting Google on those trips to Mountain View, California. Apple headquarters is only 8.5 miles away from Google’s HQ.

We all know that Verizon started testing their 4G network earlier this year and that Verizon plans to roll out their LTE network on the 700 MHz spectrum sometime next year.

Based on an analysis of wireless technology deployment, iSuppli Corp. believes that Apple Inc. will extend its exclusive iPhone service deal with AT&T—but this may not be the boon for AT&T that it appears to be.

Federal regulators wanted to know why Apple rejected Google’s innovative Voice app from its iPhone app store and what role AT&T played in the rejection. The rejection drew sharp criticism from around the net that Apple and AT&T were using their dominant position in the smartphone market to stifle innovation.

On Friday, AT&T told the FCC that it had no part in the decision, while Apple claims it never happened.

Mac developer and Panic luminary Steven Frank’s public break-up with the iPhone over Apple’s capricious App Store policy was one of the few so grounded in rationale and reason we couldn’t discount it, and neither could Apple’s Senior VP of Marketing, Phil Schiller.

While Schiller previously responded to Daring Fireball’s John Gruber over concerns about the Ninjawords app, Schiller’s response to Steve Frank was different in kind, if similar in sentiment:

Yahoo! and Microsoft have just announced a 10-year search deal where Microsoft’s newly re-branded Bing service will take over web searches for the venerable Yahoo! For its part, Yahoo! will get 88% of ad-based search revenue for 5 years and the ability to sell ads to some Microsoft search sites as well and limited access to user data.

Much has been written — especially in China — about the case of Sun Danyong, the 25-year-old Foxconn employee who jumped to his death from a 12th-story apartment in Shenzhen two weeks ago after being interrogated about a missing next-generation iPhone prototype.

Monday’s New York Times moves the story forward in several new directions — including Foxconn’s claim that products in Sun’s charge had gone missing before and a report that the company has tried to make amends by giving Sun’s girlfriend an Apple laptop computer and his family 300,000 renminbi, or more than $44,000.

Sun Danyong, 25, was tasked with sending 16 fourth-generation iPhone prototypes to Apple this month, but Apple only received 15 when the package arrived, according to Chinese media. Sun reportedly leaped from his apartment window last week, though police are investigating whether he may have been murdered, the Shanghai Daily said.

AT&T, why must iPhone users suffer the way we have? When you partnered with Apple to release the original iPhone back in June 2007 you were seen as an innovator. People left Verizon, Alltel, Sprint, T-Mobile, and many others in mass quantities because they must have the iPhone. It was the most advanced smartphone available and Apple has continued the innovation with the 3G and the 3GS. Unfortunately I don’t think I can say the same for continued innovation on your half of the equation.

Obama's anti-trust cop Christine Varney is dusting off the Sherman Act and reviewing wireless companies' exclusive handset deals--most notably AT&T's monopoly control over Apple's iPhone.

One suspects that Google lobbyists are somehow involved. READ FULL ARTICLE