Download Android “Ice Cream Sandwich” Theme

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is an amazing operating system which is yet to release but if you wanna grab that awesome user interface for that version on your current operating system than we have a solution for that thing.

Below is the preview of that theme you can check it out and you can download this from the Android Market the link for the download is below :

Features of “Ice Cream Sandwich" Theme :

•     New graphics for dock bar (ADW & Go)
•     Themed search widget (ADW only)
•     Honeycomb system icons! (placeholder)
•     Wallpaper pack included
•     ADW Theme support
•     Launcher Pro theme support (limited to icons)
•     Go Launcher EX theme support
•     Support for Desktop Visualizer
•     Support for Folder Organizer

DOWNLOAD THEME

RIM Unveils BlackBerry BBX

At BlackBerry DevCon Americas 2011, Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today unveiled BlackBerry BBX, its next generation mobile platform that takes the best of the BlackBerry® platform and the best of the QNX® platform to connect people, devices, content and services.

In addition, RIM announced a series of developer tool updates, including WebWorks for BlackBerry smartphones and tablets, the Native SDK for the BlackBerry PlayBook and a developer beta of BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 with support for running Android applications. RIM also provided direction for developers on how to best develop and monetize their BlackBerry applications for today and for the future.

"With nearly 5 million BlackBerry apps downloaded daily, our customers have made BlackBerry one of the most profitable platforms for developers," said Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO at RIM. "At DevCon today, we're giving developers the tools they need to build richer applications and we’re providing direction on how to best develop their smartphone and tablet apps as the BlackBerry and QNX platforms converge into our next generation BBX platform."

BlackBerry BBX

BBX is the next generation platform for BlackBerry smartphones and tablets. It combines the best of BlackBerry and the best of QNX and is designed from the ground up to enable the powerful real-time mobile experiences that distinguish BlackBerry products and services.

The BBX platform will include BBX-OS, and will support BlackBerry cloud services and development environments for both HTML5 and native developers. BBX will also support applications developed using any of the tools available today for the BlackBerry PlayBook – including Native SDK, Adobe AIR/Flash and WebWorks/HTML5, as well as the BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps – on future BBX-based tablets and smartphones.

BBX will also include the new BlackBerry Cascades UI Framework for advanced graphics (shown for the first time today), and bring “Super App" capabilities to enable many advanced capabilities including deep integration between apps, always-on Push services, the BBM™ Social Platform, and much more.

BlackBerry WebWorks

Developers who want to support both existing smartphones (running BlackBerry 6 and BlackBerry 7 OS) and BlackBerry PlayBook tablets can monetize apps on both platforms today with BlackBerry WebWorks, which supports apps built on HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. The latest release, BlackBerry WebWorks SDK 2.2 (supporting both smartphones and tablets), is now available and includes updates for the new PlayBook OS SDK, PlayBook Simulator and more.

The BlackBerry WebWorks APIs are supported by the Ripple Emulator, a standalone, high-fidelity browser-like emulation tool that allows developers to test and debug their applications on multiple platforms and devices without having to compile or launch simulators. Starting today the Ripple Emulator is available in beta and can also be downloaded from RIM’s WebWorks Developer site at:http://developer.blackberry.com/html5

Native SDK - Content Rich, Fast and Smooth Running Applications

RIM also announced today the immediate availability of the Native SDK for the BlackBerry PlayBook (1.0 gold release). The Native SDK allows developers to build high-performance, multi-threaded, native C/C++ applications and enables developers to create advanced 2D and 3D games and other apps with access to OpenGL ES 2.0 and Open AL, as well as device specific APIs. Applications developed with the Native SDK will run today on the BlackBerry PlayBook and will be forwardly compatible on BBX-based tablets and smartphones.

The Native SDK includes support for C/C++ POSIX library and compliance, device events like gesture swipes and touch screen inputs, access to code management systems using industry standard Eclipse CDT (C/C++ Development Tools) and advanced debug and analysis tools. QNX Momentics Tool Suite, an Eclipse-based integrated development environment, is included. It provides memory profiling, application debugging, and memory usage statistics to help developers debug sophisticated programs, including hardware accelerated OpenGL applications.

The Native SDK makes the development and porting of game applications to the BlackBerry PlayBook an extremely attractive proposition for developers. Well known game publishers, developers and major game engine companies have already started to bring their game titles and applications to the platform.

Scoreloop, the largest and fastest growing cross-platform social gaming ecosystem on mobile, is now available in beta for the Native SDK through BlackBerry® Beta Zone. The Scoreloop SDK provides everything a developer needs to easily integrate social capabilities into their native PlayBook applications and includes support for Leaderboards, Game Challenges, Awards & Achievements, and Player Profiles. Scoreloop’s fully customizable and cross-platform technology empowers developers to add as many or as few features as they want, from a simple leader-board to more extensive player achievements. It makes mobile games more social and profitable.

BlackBerry Cascades - Create Visually Stunning Interfaces

RIM today showcased BlackBerry Cascades, a rich user interface framework coming to a future release of the Native SDK. Cascades unleashes a new breed of design centric mobile applications and provides developers with an exceptional feature set for creating visually stunning interfaces with custom layouts, animations, effects and 3D graphics. These features, combined with a strong set of built-in core user interface components, will make it easy to build beautiful native applications with innovative user interfaces for the current BlackBerryPlayBook and future BBX-based tablets and smartphones. Cascades is scheduled to be made available in beta later this fall.

Adobe AIR 3.0 Support

Adobe Flash enables developers to produce visually stunning, highly functional applications for the BlackBerry PlayBook that can integrate with the underlying OS and will be supported on future BBX-based tablets and smartphones.

The BlackBerry PlayBook now supports the recently announced Adobe AIR 3.0 runtime. Among the supported features are Encrypted Local Store that gives developers the ability to use the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) to encrypt and securely store sensitive information on the device, as well as store passwords, keys or credit card information safely within the app; StageText that allows developers to take advantage of native text controls and the native interaction behaviors of those controls; Multitouch and Gestures built into applications to provide great usability; and more.

PlayBook OS 2.0 – Developer Beta

RIM introduced today the Developer Beta version of the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0. The Developer Beta includes the BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps and the BlackBerry Plug-In for Android Development Tools (ADT), allowing developers to quickly and easily bring Android applications to BlackBerry PlayBook tablets.

The BlackBerry Plug-In for ADT (an Eclipse plug-in) extends a developer's existing Eclipse Android development environment to support the PlayBook, and includes the BlackBerry PlayBook Simulator for developers to test and debug their apps before submitting them toBlackBerry App World™. Developers can also test and debug their apps on a PlayBook running the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 - Developer Beta.

Android developers can also repackage Android apps for the BlackBerry PlayBook online by using the BlackBerry Packager for Android Apps. The web tool guides developers through a step-by-step process, allowing them to test their apps for compatibility with the PlayBook, and repackage and sign their apps for submission to BlackBerry App World, all without downloading any tools.

BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps and the associated tools allow Android developers to easily expand their market to includeBlackBerry PlayBook users, and hence increase their apps’ market potential.

The BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 - Developer Beta also supports Adobe Air 3.0 and Adobe Flash 11, as well as WebGL, a new web technology that brings hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the browser without installing additional software. Developers will be able to generate rich, interactive 3D graphics within their BlackBerry WebWorks application.

For more information about the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 - Developer Beta and BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps and associated tools, visit For more information about the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 - Developer Beta and BlackBerry Runtime for

Android Apps and associated tools, visit: https://bdsc.webapps.blackberry.com/android/bpaa/

Increased Developer Productivity with Open Source Libraries on the BlackBerry

PlayBook OS

RIM also announced the BlackBerry Open Source Initiative to port popular Open Source libraries to the BlackBerry PlayBook platform. Libraries already available include physics engines like Bullet Physics and Box2DX, scripting languages like Lua, multimedia libraries like OpenAL and SDL, gaming frameworks like Cocos2DX and general-purpose libraries like Boost and Qt. Also available under an Open Source license are a range of code samples that developers can use to get started quickly, as well as GamePlay, a new 3D native gaming framework.

RIM will continue to expand its involvement in the Open Source community to help increase developer productivity on the BlackBerryplatforms. For more details on RIM’s Open Source activities, visit http://blackberry.github.com.

New Hadoop-Based Big Data Analytics Solution: Jaspersoft Announces

Jaspersoft, maker of the world's most widely used business intelligence (BI) software, today announced it is joining with IBM (NYSE:IBM) in the Big Data space. Jaspersoft will work with IBM to deliver a solution that combines IBM's enterprise-class, Hadoop-based product, InfoSphere BigInsights, with Jaspersoft's full BI suite to provide a complete reporting and management solution to meet customers' significant-volume data needs.

With the increasing amount of data in companies today, there is an opportunity to extract high value from it inside and outside of the organization. In fact, Forrester Research estimates that firms currently utilize less than 5 percent of their available data; Big Data enables firms to affordably access the other 95 percent. While these data sets are characterized by their very large volume, velocity, and variety of information; using the right tools, they can yield new insights for greater business value. Through its new partnership around Big Data, Jaspersoft is integrating and licensing IBM InfoSphere BigInsights through an Application Specific Licensing Agreement. Jaspersoft for InfoSphere BigInsights combines the power of IBM's analytics platform to manage, analyze and provide deep insight into Big Data with Jaspersoft's capability to extract key information using flexible and easy-to-use reporting, dashboard and analytics views in one integrated solution, enabling competitive advantage.

Jaspersoft provides a truly native reporting solution that can connect directly to IBM InfoSphere BigInsights through HBase as well as Hive. This means that with Jaspersoft, businesses can perform interactive ad hoc reporting and analysis directly on data stored in Hadoop without having to load this data into another database as is the case with other BI vendors. Fully integrated with IBM's InfoSphere BigInsights platform, Jaspersoft's BI suite provides BigInsights users with plug-and-play access to their organization's data and the ability to combine this information with a wide range of other internal and external sources, including web and SaaS-based data sources.

Karl Van den Bergh, Vice President of Product and Alliances at Jaspersoft said, "We're pleased to be partnering with IBM to deliver an industry-leading solution that combines cost-effective and flexible business intelligence with Internet-scale data management capabilities. Together, we can meet the Big Data Analytics needs of any size organization."

Bruce Weed, Program Director, Big Data Business Development at IBM said, "Jaspersoft provides a powerful and flexible reporting and analysis solution, and is a key part of our rich ecosystem in the Big Data space. In addition, Jaspersoft's community of a quarter million members will help us further address and solve problems within the Big Data space."

Key features of the solution:

• The full Jaspersoft BI Suite including ETL, pixel-perfect and ad hoc reporting, dashboards, and analysis with native connectors to IBM InfoSphere BigInsights through HBase and Hive
• Job and workflow management, provisioning and advanced security, large-scale indexing and text analysis through IBM InfoSphere BigInsights
• Available as a free/community version and a commercial version with more advanced features

For more information on the Jaspersoft and IBM Big Data Analytics solution, listen to the replay of the joint IBM and Jaspersoft webinar held on October 12.

About Jaspersoft

Jaspersoft provides the most flexible, cost effective and widely deployed business intelligence suite in the world, enabling better decision-making through highly interactive web-based reports, dashboards and analysis. Leveraging a commercial open source business model, Jaspersoft provides end-to-end BI capabilities at a fraction of the cost of other vendors. The BI suite includes pixel-perfect enterprise reporting, ad hoc query, dashboards, OLAP and in-memory analysis, and data integration. Jaspersoft is the only BI vendor that enables companies to adapt to the new, virtualized world by providing a complete spectrum of on-premise, multi-tenant SaaS and cloud-based deployment options for both embedded and standalone business intelligence. Unlike traditional BI vendors, Jaspersoft is built on a modern, lightweight, standards-based architecture and offers greater vendor independence thanks to its open source codebase. Unlike niche BI vendors, Jaspersoft represents a safe choice with tens of thousands of production deployments across a wide range of industries.

Jaspersoft's open source business intelligence software has nearly 14 million product downloads worldwide, 175,000 production deployments and over 14,000 commercial customers in 100 countries. Its BI suite is advanced regularly by a development community of nearly 240,000 registered members. For more information visit: http://www.jaspersoft.com and http://www.jasperforge.org.

Homebrew iPhone 5 design prototype looks absolutely amazing

We’ve been talking about the iPhone 5 for months now. Most of it has been speculation, and a lot of the talk has been about what we’d want in the iPhone 5. There’s a chance the announced iPhone may just be a slight upgrade. There’s also the possibility that Apple could release an iPhone 5 in addition to the slightly-upgraded version (called the iPhone 4S?). There’s a lot of “what ifs” and “maybes,” but the one thing we do know for sure is that we’ll find something out on October 4 when Apple holds its iPhone announcement at its headquarters in Cupertino.

Much of the talk has been about what the iPhone 5 will look like. Some reports say that the iPhone will revert back to the a design similar to that of the iPhone 3G with a curved, ergonomic back that would eliminate the Death Grip that plagued the iPhone 4. Other rumors suggest that the iPhone 5 will feature a tapered design, where the bottom would be thinner than the top part of the phone, angling the device when it sits on a flat surface. Then there’s the rumor that the phone may have a metallic back, and not a black or white glass one like the iPhone 4.

Ben Miller of BenM.at, a German mobile website, decided to compile all of the rumors he’s heard about case leaks, specs, and mock-ups, and build his own mock-up of what he thinks the iPhone 5 will look like. According to Giga.de, another German mobile site, macnews.de and BenM.at say with 98 percent probability that this is how the iPhone 5 will look.

We’ve also seen case leaks that have led us to believe the iPhone 5 may have a 3G-like body but with a larger screen and buttonless design. We’ve also seen leaked photos of what the front of the iPhone 5 may look like, which debunks the rumor that the phone will have a 4-inch screen. Leaked photos of an iPhone 5 screen protector also suggest an elongated home button and a larger body. As you can see, there are tons of rumors, and it’s nearly impossible to keep up with all of them, which is where the mock-up comes in handy.

Built out of aluminum and glass, the mock-up shows the iPhone 5 to be thinner than its predecessors and also wider. The mock-up does have a 4-inch display, instead of the current 3.5-inch display. The Home buttons is also no longer a physical button, but instead is a capacitive “button.” It’s rectangular in shape, and would allow you to slide your finger from one end to the other. Rumor has it that you’ll be able to use swipe gestures, so commonly used in Apple products, to navigate around pages. You’ll also be able to unlock your phone by just sliding your finger over the Home button. The phone’s aluminum body will have rounded edges, which will feel much natural and comfortable while holding in your hand.

As for the internal features, the phone will use the A5 CPU that the iPad currently uses. It will have double the RAM, going from 512 MB to 1GB. We’ve known this for a while, as well as that the iPhone 5 will ditch its 5-megapixel rear-facing camera for an 8-megapixel camera.

The mock-up looks pretty spectacular, and we’re hoping the new iPhone will look somewhat close to this. We’ll know for sure on October 4. Check out the video below for more iPhone 5 eye-porn.

New Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 Plus Is Amazing

Samsung introduce their new mobile model Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 Plus in market. Two things to be gleaned here. 1) Samsung’s new Galaxy Tab 7 Plus is almost exactly like the 10.1, 8.9 and 7.7 tabs. 2) If you bought a first generation Galaxy Tab 7 and hoped for Honeycomb, you’re probably screwed.

Basically, here are the differences between this and the Galaxy 10.1 or the Galaxy 8.9. It’s smaller, at just seven inches. It’s a little faster, with a 1.2GHz dual-core processor vs. the 1GHz on the other two. And it has an HSPA+ radio, which should make downloads nice n’ speedy (though that makes it negligibly thicker). It also sports Samsung’s bright and cheery TouchWiz UI over Android 3.2. It’s basically a faster version of the original Galaxy Tab 7. The bad news is that means that if you bough the original Galaxy Tab 7, which launched with Froyo, and you’ve been hoping for a Honeycomb update, this thing probably just took a pee a your dreams.

No word on pricing yet, but given that the screen isn’t quite as fancy as the Galaxy tab 7.7, it’ll probably be cheaper. Seriously though, Samsung, what’s up with all these look-alike tablets? Where’s the creativity? I fell asleep twice while trying to write this three paragraph post. It will likely be available by the end of October.

50+ Free Ads Posting Sites in India

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In India so many people are using these free classified sites for buy and sell products. These sites are more popular than the social networking sites.

In this post you will get 50+ free ads posting sites. In some site require sign up and some sites don’t need to sign up for posting of ads. So, visit these sites and take full information from their help centre and post your ads.

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History of Company Names

Hewlett-Packard

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.


Yahoo!

The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book Gulliver's Travels. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.


Xerox

The Greek root "xer" means dry. The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product Xerox as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying.


Sun Microsystems

Founded by four Stanford University buddies, Sun is the acronym for Stanford University Network.



Sony

From the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.


SAP

"Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by four ex-IBM employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/Projects' group of IBM.


Red Hat

Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone!


Oracle

Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such).



Motorola

Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.


Microsoft

It was coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.


Lotus

Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from the lotus position or 'padmasana.' Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.


Intel

Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.


Hotmail

Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing email via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for Hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casings.


Google

The name started as a jockey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google


CISCO

The name is not an acronym but an abbreviation of San Francisco. The company's logo reflects its San Francisco name heritage. It represents a stylized Golden Gate Bridge.


Apple Computer

Favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 o'clock.


Apache

It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy' server - thus, the name Apache.


Adobe

The name came from the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.

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How to Change a File Extension in Windows

This page shows you how to change the name of a file extension in Windows XP and Windows 7. For example, you might want to change a file called mypage.php to mypage.html, or myvideo.vob to myvideo.mpg. We use Windows 7 for this example but the same process applies to most versions of Windows.

Changing a file extension should only be done if you are confident it's the right thing to do. There are many reasons for changing an extension — sometimes it's fairly straightforward, sometimes it's a bit of a gamble. When you change an extension, one of three things is likely to happen:
 

•  It won't make any difference to how the computer deals with the file.
•  It will enable some programs to recognize and work with a file, while other programs may no longer recognize it.
•  It will not have any useful effect and the file will no longer open properly.

Step By Step Process:


The first thing to do is open Windows Explorer (or My Computer) and view the file you wish to change. We will use the example of a file called "a_mercedes_emerging.php" which we want to change to "a_mercedes_emerging.html". It looks like this in Windows Explorer:

 
 
At this stage you might notice that your file does not appear to have an extension (in the above example it would simply be called a_mercedes_emerging). This is probably because you have Windows set to hide extension names. Go to Tools > Folder Options, then click the View tab. Uncheck the box titled "Hide extensions for known file types" and click on the Apply button like so:
 

Click OK. Now you should be able to see the file extensions for all files. Right-click the file name and select Rename. Enter the new extension like so:

After entering the new extension, hit the Enter (return) key. Windows will give you a warning that if you change a file name extension, the file might become unusable. This is quite safe — if the file does stop working you can always change the extension back (just make sure you remember what it was!).


It's also possible that you might get another message telling you that the file is "read-only". In this case either say yes to turning off read-only, or right-click the file, select Properties and uncheck the Read-only box.

Note: Windows treats file extensions as case-insensitive, i.e. .RTF is the same as .rtf. However other operating systems do not, and will treat myfile.RTF and myfile.rtf as two different files. Therefore it is good practice to always treat your files as case-sensitive for maximum compatibility. This is especially crucial if you are going to use the files on the Internet. We strongly recommend that you get into the habit of using all lower-case letters for all file names and extensions.

iPhone recall seen unlikely at Apple event

(Reuters) - 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 has declined to provide any details about the morning event, called late Wednesday, at its corporate headquarters in Cupertino, California.

Growing furor over iPhone 4 signal-strength flaws has hurt Apple's shares, knocking billions off its market valuation. Investors will be looking for a fuller explanation of what analysts call a minor issue that has managed to cause a media firestorm.

Some users of the phone complain that reception turns weak when the device is held in a certain way that has come to be jokingly called the "iPhone 4 death grip."

Apple has blamed a software glitch that overstates network strength, but others have said the antenna on the redesigned best-selling device is at fault.

Cross Research analyst Shannon Cross said she expected Apple to use the press conference to provide a remedy to users who are experiencing the problem, and try to redirect attention back to the iPhone 4's strengths.

"We do not expect a recall and believe Apple will quickly move past this issue," Cross wrote in a research note.

She said Apple could provide free, low-cost iPhone cases -- which appear to solve the reception problem -- to consumers at a cost of $1 to $2 each, or less than 5 cents a share.

Apple could add a thin coating over the antenna in future models to fix the issue, Cross added.

Bloomberg on Thursday reported that Apple's senior antenna expert voiced concern to Chief Executive Steve Jobs in the early design phase of the iPhone 4 that the antenna design could lead to dropped calls. The report cited a person familiar with the matter.

When asked about the report, Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said "it's simply not true."

Apple's July and August option implied volatility, which measures the expected magnitude of share price movement, surged on Thursday.

"Apple option traders are bracing for a big move in the underlying shares boosted by uncertainty over the iPhone 4 smartphone and next week's earnings," said Jon Najarian, a co-founder of Web information site optionMonster.

"Professional investors believe this is a big deal judging by the amount of Apple options that are being bid up on both the call and put side, indicating how nervous players are."

In all, about 141,000 calls and 100,000 puts traded in Apple by mid-afternoon, according to option analytics firm Trade Alert.

BMO Capital Markets analyst Keith Bachman said he doesn't expect the company to offer to replace the iPhone 4.

"We do believe that Apple needs to be more proactive in identifying and addressing the issues for the iPhone 4," Bachman wrote in a research note.

"We believe that a real risk is if the press keeps talking about this issue, iPhone 4 growth could slow."

Shares of Apple fell 1.4 percent to $249.18 on Nasdaq.

(Reporting by Gabriel Madway and Doris Frankel; Editing by Richard Chang)