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Although tickets for the conference are sold out, Worth Ave. Group is providing you with the latest and greatest updates that are expected to be released during the opening presentation at the World Wide Developers Conference this summer. Many new updates along with new products are expected to be revealed by Apple. Below can be found a variety of these changes to be released just in one week!

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is set to kick off on Monday June 11th this summer and is expected to announce some big updates. In the past we have seen iOS 5, OS X Lion, iCloud, and iTunes Match. One of the most unique things about last year’s conference was unfortunately, Steve Jobs final conference to attend.

Many of us here at Worth Ave. Group are big Apple fans. We love any and all things related to Apple and what gadgets they will release next. As a result, we have been over the moon excited about the release of the new iPhone 4S and the new iOS 5.

In the last several years technology and more specifically, portable technology has exploded in commonality. Almost everyone is connected to others through laptops, cell phones, iPods, gaming systems, e-Readers, etc. With websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, and more, we are constantly able to connect with those we know and care about.

Like every week, there is new news on the next iPhone. The newest updates say an announcement will be made on Tuesday Oct. 4 by Apple's new CEO Tim Cook. This announcement will be extremely important to Apple as a company, not just about the iPhone. This will be the first announcement/media event since Steve Jobs resigned and Cook will need to reassure stockholders, customers and Apple enthusiasts that he can maintain and grow the company.

With impending news of the iPhone 5 coming soon, you can't help but hear some of the buzz. The rumor mill is working overtime speculating what new features the iPhone 5 will give us as well as what carriers will be selling the new iPhone 5. Looks like we may have bigger screens, a modified antenna and faster processing.

Like all technology, the TV has changed tremendously over the past few years. We've gone from having giant deep boxes to skinny TVs with bigger screens for less than money than we spent on the smaller giant box.

Everything we do nowadays is somehow connected to the Internet. Saw an article this morning that 23 percent of our time on the Internet is on social networking sites. Twenty-three percent just on Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc. That means if you're only on the Internet for an hour a day, you probably spend at least 14 minutes on those sites before you do anything else. As of this year, 2.095 BILLION people use the Internet, that's 30.2 percent of the world population!

In a move that isn't very shocking, Sprint is filing a lawsuit to block the AT&T/T-Mobile merger. Not only has Sprint filed the lawsuit, but the federal government has as well. Both the government and Sprint are saying that the merger is "anti-consumer and anti-competition." I somewhat agree with this but taking T-Mobile out of the picture still leaves Sprint and Verizon as strong competitors.

High School and College students can easily have a thousand dollars or more inside their backpack. What is in your student's backpack? Laptop, iPod, Cell Phone, Digital Camera, Portable Game System? How much would you suffer financially if your student's backpack was stolen or damaged from a water bottle leak?