I’m often blown away by the pathetically misguided marketing campaigns that clearly out-of-touch executives in large corporations green light … and then shell out millions of dollars to put into motion. But the “Wake Up” flashmob that tumbled out of a clearly expensive bus in Sydney, Australia, had me scratching my head while simultaneously clutching my belly to ease the pain of laughing so hard.

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Regional wireless carrier C Spire announced recently it will be the next U.S. cellular provider to carry Apple’s iPhone. The carrier serves Mississippi and other small pockets of the southern U.S. C Spire is the eighth largest wireless carrier in the country.

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As we head into the back-to-school season and gear up for Fall and the holidays, there is a perfect storm of Apple action coming together. And there’s so much there, all at once, that it might even be enough to drown out the flood of Android smartphones — for a while, at least. Back in February of this year, Apple started shaking up its iPhone rollout pattern when it started offering the iPhone 4 on Verizon.

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It looks like Sprint is about to join Club iPhone. The wireless network could become the Apple smartphone’s third U.S. wireless carrier in October, just in time for the holiday season, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report. That’s also the time frame in which Apple is expected to release the fifth generation of iPhone, though the company has not officially announced a date.

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Apple is now the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer in the world, according to new IDC statistics. Its iPhone accounted for 19.1 percent — or 20.3 million — of the 106.5 million devices shipped around the world during the second quarter. Following Apple is Samsung, with 16.2 percent of global shipments, and then Nokia, with 15.7 percent. Nokia held the top spot a mere year ago. RIM and HTC brought up the rear.

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