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The company AT&T's growth in the realm of new cell phone service subscribers is 57% lower than expected for this quarter. Who's to blame? Well, other than AT&T of course, Verizon and the iPhone, apparently. AT&T relies heavily on the iPhone for its user base, and the new iPhone 5 has been in such high demand, but has also a low supply.

The electronics company LG has come up with a rather novel way to showcase their new IPS line of televisions. IPS is a variation of LCD display screen that boasts clear colors, high refresh rates, and no 'tailing' when someone touches the screen. This makes them especially useful for touchscreen devices, and for LG's prank.

The company SplashData has released a list of the "most popular" Passwords of 2012, which listed the most commonly cracked passwords by hackers. The list is based on incidents related to hacking users of different web portals and services, including Yahoo, LinkedIn, eHarmony and Last.fm. In all cases, it was an incredibly simple (read stupid) password, which hackers could crack without any effort. The report points out that many users still do not pay too much attention to the security of their online sessions. According to experts, no matter how much effort is invested in the development of secure systems, encryption, cryptography and anti-hacking tools that are becoming increasingly complex, in the end it all falls apart if users supplied their account to hackers "on a platter" with a password that even little kids could reveal.

Who has the most apps? The best apps? Does Apple or Android make more money from their apps? Who has more developers? Which platform offers more free apps? Hardware aside, these are all all important issues to consider when purchasing a new phone. After all, phones are now a versatile mobile computing platform that can hardly be referred to as just a “phone” any longer.