The Federal Trade Commission opened an investigation to determine whether the practices of Apple in the mobile telephony business are unduly affect competition, according to a report.
The Wall Street Journal newspaper reported that the Commission (FTC, for its acronym in English), has worked with the Justice Department for weeks, to decide which agency will review the allegations of some companies, which complain that they are marginalized mobile platform based on the iPhone and the IPAD, the successful aircraft of the U.S. company.
The latest version of Apple's mobile operating system, iOS4, will be released later this month. A new iPhone would be available around the same time.
Google, Apple's rival, is among the companies unhappy with the manufacturer of the iPhone. The new restrictions are part of iOS4 could affect Google's ability to sell and place advertisements in devices that use the software.
On Wednesday, Omar Hamoui, head of AdMob, a mobile advertising service recently acquired by Google, criticized the restrictions, as a threat to competition.
Before Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News had reported on the investigation.
Apple spokesman Steve Dowling declined to comment. We were unable to locate a spokesman for the FTC.
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Apple confirms event that would launch new iPod
Apple said Monday that it will hold a meeting to media next week, when he expects the company will launch an updated line of iPods.
Apple announced the appointment on September 9 through an email invitation to different media.
The invitation did not specify what type of products displayed at the meeting, but it shows an iPod accompanied by the slogan "It's only rock 'n' roll, but we like it.
In other years, the company has taken the same meeting in September to launch new iPod models for the holiday season.
The event will be held in San Francisco at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Center Theater.
Apple announced the appointment on September 9 through an email invitation to different media.
The invitation did not specify what type of products displayed at the meeting, but it shows an iPod accompanied by the slogan "It's only rock 'n' roll, but we like it.
In other years, the company has taken the same meeting in September to launch new iPod models for the holiday season.
The event will be held in San Francisco at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Center Theater.
Apple says iPhone blasts is not due to defects
The U.S. company Apple rejected the ten explosions occurred iPhone screens in France in recent weeks due to a manufacturing defect and attributed to "external pressure" on the apparatus.
"Today there is no incident involving overheating 3GS iPhone's battery and the number of cases to investigate amounts to less than a dozen," the group said in a statement sent to AFP by the director Apple's media in Europe.
"The iPhone with broken screen that we analyzed show at the moment, in all cases that the cracks were caused by external pressure exerted on the iPhone," he said.
In France recently recorded a dozen explosions in the screens of the iPhone, which has prompted the country's authorities have opened an investigation.
According to figures from Apple, have been sold worldwide 26 million units of its famous phone.
"Today there is no incident involving overheating 3GS iPhone's battery and the number of cases to investigate amounts to less than a dozen," the group said in a statement sent to AFP by the director Apple's media in Europe.
"The iPhone with broken screen that we analyzed show at the moment, in all cases that the cracks were caused by external pressure exerted on the iPhone," he said.
In France recently recorded a dozen explosions in the screens of the iPhone, which has prompted the country's authorities have opened an investigation.
According to figures from Apple, have been sold worldwide 26 million units of its famous phone.
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