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NTT DoCoMo, Japans largest mobile operator,has rejected speculation that it is preparing to launch the iPhone and iPad next year, stating that it has yet to reach an agreement with Apple, according to Reuters . The denial came in response to local media reports that the carrier, which boasts 58 million customers, would begin sales of an HSDPA-supported iPad as early as next summer, with the iPhone following in autumn 2012. The operator confirmed that it is in discussions with Apple when, last month, it admitted that it hadnt given up hope of carrying the devices. However, by its own admission, a number of critical issues including the bundling of DoCoMos standard software and concerns over the large requirement of shipments are still to be ironed out before an agreement can be reached. Though it does not offer the iPhone, DoCoMo provides a dedicated tariff plan to accommodate existing iPhone owners who are looking to migrate over to its network. The carrier has placed considerable e...

David Carey, president of magazine publisher Hearst Corp, expects the company will have more than 1 million paid digital subscribers by the end of 2012. We do expect in 2012 at some point to be able to have more than a million on e-subscriptions, he said on stage at Reuters Global Media Summit Wednesday. Carey disclosed that nearly 400,000 tablet owners have subscribed to the digital editions of magazines such as Cosmopolitan , Esquire a nd Good Housekeeping so far. Many of Hearsts titles are available on the iPad , Nook Color and, more recently, the Kindle Fir e. Subscriptions are growing by 10 to 15% per month, he added. Unlike other magazine publishers such as Conde Nast, Hearst does not offer print subscribers free access to the digital editions of its magazines. Prices vary depending on the device. Esquire , for instance, costs $8.00 per year on the iPad the same price as print and $24 per month on the Nook Color. Its not known to what degree those digital subscriptions are...

Software developer Trevor Eckhart discovered a secret data logging app on Android, BlackBerry and Nokia phones that logs the users keystrokes and dispatches them off to Carrier IQs servers, as Wired reported on Tuesday. References to the spy software have now been found hidden in all versions of iOS as well, according to a report by The Verge . Carrier IQ, as Eckhart demonstrates in the video below, secretly records the numbers a user calls, their text messages, the content of Web searches (including encrypted ones) and a whole mess of other data. It then sends this data off to Carrier IQs servers, even if the phone itself is in airplane mode and connected to the Internet over WiFi. Eckhart labeled the tracking software as a rootkit, an application that gains (or has been given) root access to a system without permission from the user, which led Carrier IQ to threaten him with legal action . The company later backed off when the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) came to Eckharts...

Using Google+? Add Mashable to your circles. Youll get the latest about new Google+ features and tips and tricks for using the platform as well as top social media and technology news. Google+ will allow multiple admins to manage a brand page before 2012, Kristoffer Sorensen, a Google marketing strategist, said on in a live Q&A on Wednesday. Currently, brand pages are tied to one admin account that has total control over the page and profile. This has been a point of frustration for social media managers who have multiple team members updating their company social profiles. Until two weeks ago, when Google gave select third-party apps early access to the Google+ API , the only solution was for a team to share one login or for one person to maintain the Google+ page alone. These situations are less than ideal because they can cause security and workflow issues. When the social media management tools in the pilot program integrated Google+ posting, companies not using these tools...

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