According to a recent report by AppleInsider, future iDevices might be having an FM chip forced upon them, in an effort to rapidly expand the radio market. There has been an ongoing debate between the National Association of Broadcasters and musicFirst about whether artists should be paid performance rights when a song they feature in is played on the radio. This has been resolved – [...]

Here’s the final nail in the coffin for anybody out there hoping to secure a Verizon iPhone on an unlimited data plan in the near future: according to a recent report by Engadget, Verizon will soon be adding tiered pricing for data packages in an AT&T-style tariff change. This of course squashes any hopes anybody had of grabbing a limitless iPhone on a Verizon plan if AT&T [...]

It’s almost no surprise that there are rumors of Verizon killing its unlimited data plan offerings after AT&T dropped its own unlimited plans. There’s not much information just yet, but it sounds like Verizon will be switching to some sort of limited, tiered data plans at the end of the month. Engadget More

Apple and AT&T have been hit with a class action lawsuit over the bait and switch of the unlimited data plan to iPad 3G owners. Since June 9th three consumers went to the law firm of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP to file the amended complaint. “The availability of an unlimited data plan was a key reason why consumers paid the extra $130 charge to access the 3-G network, [...]

AT&T made headlines earlier this month when it announced cheaper data plans for the iPhone that dropped the unlimited data option altogether. O2, one the iPhone’s carriers in the UK, did the same thing last week when unveiling its iPhone 4 pricing. But O2 took one step further than AT&T, publishing a blog post in which CEO Ronan Dunne declared unlimited data to be “a thing of [...]