“iPhone” on The Daily Caller

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A watchful eye has arrived on San Francisco’s bar scene, but not to keep you in check. It just wants to check you out. (more)

Old-school train conductors are finally ready to give up their hole punchers to try something new: the iPhone. (more)

BOSTON (AP) — A mutual fund manager usually can count on having a good year if the largest investment in the portfolio is surging. But that’s not the case for Tony Trzcinka. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s latest Galaxy phone will have a high-definition touch screen that’s nearly twice the size of the iPhone, while being thinner and lighter than Apple’s phone. (more)

Apple’s next huge move isn’t into the television or banking industries according to one expert. Instead, Apple will take on carriers like AT&T and Verizon Wireless by becoming a direct mobile service provider. Veteran wireless industry strategist Whitey Bluestein, who has managed strategic deals for the likes of AT&T, Intel, T-Mobile, Verizon, Microsoft, Nokia and Best Buy, says Apple will soon begin to offer wireless service directly to iPhone and iPad users. Apple has the distribution channels, digital content portfolio and customer base to make the move, Bluestein says, and it also has more than 250 million credit cards on file for iTunes users who could be billed directly for wireless service. (more)

A Tennessee man has developed an iPhone application that tells users if someone is a Republican or Democrat after scanning that person’s photo. (more)

Sprint Nextel is banking that its unlimited data plan will continue to set its iPhone apart from the others — even when the next version arrives. (more)

TORONTO (AP) — The newest board member of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. said Thursday that a turnaround could take three to five years. (more)

Not long after the iPhone came out, skeptics questioned how much appeal the costly device and related wireless service would have in countries like China with lower income levels. On Tuesday, Apple provided the answer: A lot. (more)

A recent investor analysis concluded that without the iPhone, T-Mobile USA is unlikely to be met with enthusiasm from wireless customers in the near future. (more)

U.S. taxpayers can now use their iPhone to compare how much different plans to tackle the federal deficit would cost them in their yearly income taxes. (more)

According to China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency, a teenager from the poor southern province of Anhui sold his kidney to pay for an Apple iPhone and iPad — and now he’s suffering from the potentially deadly effects of renal failure. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — A small Virginia-based cellphone company said Wednesday that it will start selling the iPhone, at prices that undercut the big carriers. (more)

Android generated less than $550m in revenues for Google between 2008 and the end of 2011, if figures provided by the search giant as part of a settlement offer with Oracle ahead of an expected patent and copyright infringement trial are an accurate guide. (more)

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) said it is free to offer a potential future Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPhone using the faster mobile broadband network known as 4G LTE. (more)

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New Orleans police issued a misdemeanor arrest warrant for Russell Brand on Wednesday in connection with the funny man’s run-in with a photographer earlier this week. (more)

Hunched over a computer at a corporate AT&T store on Wilshire Boulevard Wednesday afternoon, a salesperson named Pedro asked a customer whether Apple had announced the successor to the iPad 2 tablet yet. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Broadcasters have sued a startup backed by media billionaire Barry Diller that sends live local TV feeds to iPhones and iPads in the New York area. (more)