After announcing a CDMA iPhone 4 available on its network in February, word also came from Verizon about an iPad that will use its CDMA network.
Verizon Communications CFO Francis Shammo revealed the upcoming iPad to Bloomberg, which will feature built in CDMA features. Verizon already offers Apple’s iPad in bundles with its MiFi 2200 Mobile Hotspot device, which does not come cheap.
Shammo did not reveal anything else about the iPad. He didn’t indicate whether it will be the same iPad with just CDMA support added (like the iPhone announced Tuesday) or if it will be a new rumored next generation iPad.
The revelation comes as more bad news to AT&T, who up until Tuesday was officially the only provider offering the iPhone. AT&T also sells an iPad that uses its 3G network.
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ComScore has reported this week that both Yahoo and Microsoft “gained” share in the U.S. search market for May, although both companies appear to be using gimmicks to distort the numbers in their favor.
By the numbers, Google remained the clear leader but share fell from 64.4 percent in April to 63.7 percent in May. Yahoo gained share, from 17.7 percent to 18.3 percent. Microsoft’s Bing jumped to 12.1 percent, from 11.8. AOL fell marginally from 2.4 percent to 2.3.
BusinessInsider reports, however, that both companies are “gaming” the stats, by placing thousands of links on their respective homepages that are search queries pretending to be content.
Additionally, the companies have been creating image slideshows as search engines, as well, in an effort to get additional clicks.
Analyst Ben Schachter of Broadpoint Amtech says without the tricks, real search traffic numbers would have shown Yahoo falling to 16.6 percent, Microsoft holding flat at 10.8 percent and Google gaining to 66.4 percent.
Following the revelations, comScore says it will change the way it accounts for share, so the industry does not consider their work worthless.
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According to a company spokesman, Verizon is unlikely to get the Apple iPhone in the “immediate future,” despite Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ recent revelation that “there might be” a iPhone on a new carrier in the U.S. soon.
Verizon spokesperson John Johnson says: “We have no plans to carry the iPhone in the immediate future.”
Johnson then went on to talk about Android, and Verizon’s support of the HTC Incredible and other “flagship” Android devices.
Steve Jobs, speaking a week before Apple’s yearly Worldwide Developers Conference, had said “there might be” a chance of the iPhone on another carrier, before adding: “The future is long. I can’t talk about that stuff.”
AT&T recently announced the elimination of unlimited data plans, while adding new data plans for their smartphone line, including the iPhone and iPad tablet, which will be less expensive for customers, but will also limit data use.
