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Apple Inc said on Monday its popular iPhone 4 model will go on sale in an additional 17 countries on Friday, July 30.

One in five Australians prefer not to eat or be without heating or mobile phone than have no Internet access for a day, according to a survey by telecommunications and media firm Telstra Corp. Ltd. released Monday.

Customers will not be able to get their hands on Apple Inc's white iPhone 4 until later this year, the company said on Friday, conceding that making the model has proven surprisingly difficult.

AT&T Inc posted a better-than-expected profit particularly in its wireline business and said it was more optimistic on growth prospects for 2010, sending its shares up 2 percent in early trade.

Wall Street analysts boosted their price targets on Apple Inc after it posted robust quarterly results, but the company's conservative margin forecast limited gains in the stock on Wednesday.

Apple Inc gave an unusually upbeat revenue forecast that trounced Wall Street's expectations and eased fears that the Antennagate controversy around its iPhone 4's reception would hurt sales, boosting its shares 3 percent.

(Corrects iPhone 4 launch date to June 24 from June 28 in paragraph 8.)

Apple Inc reported results that blew past Wall Street's expectations, boosted by robust sales of Mac computers, sending its shares 3 percent higher.

Apple Inc reported results that blew past Wall Street's expectations, boosted by robust sales of Mac computers, sending its shares 3 percent higher.

Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs' offer of free phone cases mitigates the public relations damage the iPhone 4 antenna issue has caused, analysts said.

Apple Inc's attempt to smooth over a controversy surrounding its iPhone 4 failed to impress investors, as the computer maker's shares stumbled on a day when technology stocks rose.

Speech-recognition software maker Nuance is launching software apps for the Apple iPhone in Britain as the company grows more confident that its voice-to-text technology is ready for global markets.

Apple Inc appears to be deliberately distorting the issues surrounding the iPhone 4's antenna design by asserting that Research In Motion's BlackBerry has similar reception problems, RIM said.

Apple Inc is likely to announce a fix for the iPhone 4's reception problems on Friday rather than recall the device, hoping to stem a growing chorus of complaints and avert any lasting damage to its carefully earned reputation for quality products.

Apple Inc is likely to announce a fix for the iPhone 4's reception problems, rather than a recall, at a surprise press conference on the device on Friday, analysts said.

Apple Inc is likely to announce a fix for the iPhone 4's reception problems on Friday, hoping to stem a growing chorus of complaints and avert any lasting damage to its carefully earned reputation for quality products.

Apple Inc finds itself on unfamiliar ground heading into its earnings report next week: on the defensive.

Apple Inc has called a surprise press conference for Friday to talk about the iPhone 4, as the company continues to deal with fallout from reported reception problems on its popular smartphone.

Consumer Reports said on Wednesday its tests confirmed that putting Apple Inc's new iPhone into a case fixes the reception problems that some users have experienced.

Shares of Apple Inc slid more than 4 percent on Tuesday after a poor review for its iPhone 4 from an influential consumer guide underpinned mounting complaints about the hot-selling device's reception and spurred speculation about a product recall.

Shares of Apple Inc slid more than 3 percent on Tuesday after a poor review for its iPhone 4 from an influential consumer guide underpinned mounting complaints about the hot-selling device's antenna and reception.