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Here is a good article from ZDNet.com on their top business apps for the iPhone.

Just two short years after the release of the iPhone, Nokia is suing Apple claiming that the iPhone uses 10 of their patents. They say that 40 other companies are using their technology and paying for it, and that Apple should have to as well.

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster believes that Nokia could get some 1-2% of Apple’s iPhone profits, which could amount to about $400 million. And that doesn’t include future revenue from the phone.

Apple recently announced that the company’s net income rose 47% in its most recent quarter as more and more people drop their fears of Mac computers and the iPhone continues to prove that there is no equal on the market.

As Apple rolled out another faster iPhone over the summer and dropped the price of the previous generation to $99, sales soared and 7.4 million units were moved from July to September. Wow.

“Apple is the undisputed growth name in tech,” said Brian Marshall, an analyst with Broadpoint AmTech Inc. in San Francisco. “Apple continues to gain [market] share across its major product lines.”

Imagine the spike in sales when Apple eventually releases itself from the exclusive contract with AT&T. We will buy Apple stock when that deal is announced. It’s pretty much the only reason that people who don’t have an iPhone won’t get one.

If you are into jailbreaking iPhones, you will be disappointed. Apparently, the newest shipments of iPhone 3GS’s are not vulnerable to the 24kpwn exploit, which means you’ll need to find another way to hack it.

Here is an image of the new version number:

Without any help from Apple, Adobe has developed iPhone tools that allows Flash developers to come up with native Flash applications for the iPhone.

Adobe announced on Monday that their next version of Flash Professional will feature an option for developers to export their Flash code in a format that will allow it to run as a native application on the iPhone. Neat!

“We believe these apps are good for Apple and good for the iPhone,” Adrian Ludwig, a product marketing manager with Adobe’s Flash Platform group, told reporters on Monday. “We have no reason to believe that Apple won’t love this.”

Adobe would love to offer the Flash Player for iPhone, but says they would need more help from Apple to do so. Why wouldn’t Apple want Flash for the iPhone??

More from PCWorld.com:

It’s not the Flash Player for the iPhone that many are hoping for, and the applications won’t be able to browse the Web in the way that programs running in Flash Player can. But it does mean that Flash developers won’t have to rewrite their applications from scratch for the iPhone, which should expand the pool of applications for Apple’s device.

The Dallas Business Journal reports that Apple could double the sales of its iPhone if it dumped the exclusivity contract with AT&T. This projection comes from Kathryn Huberty, an analyst at Morgan Stanley.

“We expect Apple to broaden iPhone carrier distribution over the next two years and believe this opportunity is under-appreciated by the investment community,” said Huberty.

The DBJ goes on to say that according to Huberty,

…Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) still has exclusive deals in six markets that made up 70 percent of iPhone sales in the second quarter. Making the devices available to other carriers in those markets would bump market share to 10 percent from its current level of 4 percent…

We all know what this report is really saying… wake up Apple! Make a deal with Verizon so you can sell more phones.

While the Google Voice app is being held up by Apple’s review process, Vonage got theirs approved. Today, the VoIP company is releasing an app that allows users to make low-cost international calls, with rates varying from country to country.

“Given the penetration of smartphones and the global increase of phones that can access broadband networks, the time is now for a company like Vonage to take advantage of the market,” said Marc Lefar, Vonage’s chief executive.

With the voice over WiFi stuff out there, how long is it before cellular service gets changed completely? If we have the technology to speak over WiFi, why would I continue to pay for minutes and crap like this? What a racket!