iPhone! Get your iPhone!

Want an iPhone? How much would you pay. According to a quick ebay search people are willing to pay a pretty penny for one, between 3 and 4 times the purchase price. Almost makes me want to take a day off from work just to wait in line at my local store to flip the phones on ebay.

What I'd like to know is how people are selling phones without contracts seeing you need to activate in store? It should be a difficult proposition to purchase a 3G iPhone without a contract. Perhaps these are phones from day 1 after buyers were sent home after the activation outtage? I'll continue to keep an eye on the ebay scene . . . in the meantime, if you are selling a phone without contract on ebay, please let us know your secret ;)

Look at this whopper....

Apple and Klausner Technologies Settle Visual Voicemail Dispute

Ahhh, another lawsuit has come and gone for Apple regarding patent violations.  In December of this past year, Klausner Technology accused Apple of appropriating Klausner’s patent for visual voicemail and joined eBay and AT&T in the suit.  The technology references the visual voicemail feature used in Apple’s iPhone.

Apple, eBay and AT&T settled the suit agreeing to license the visual voicemail technology under a non-exclusive deal.  The financial negotiations of settlement were not disclosed.

        Klausner has already licensed the coveted technology to Time Warner’s AOL for AOL voicemail services as well as Vonage for their Voicemail Plus services.  Comcast and Cablevision Systems Corp. are rumored to be in negotiations with the visual voicemail giants.  Comcast is looking to use the technology to send a visual alert your computer or cell phone when you have a new voicemail.  It seems there are never-ending possibilities to being connected.

this article based on information found at www.newsfactor.com