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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?

The days of paper grocery bag book covers may be coming to an end! Students from Lake Minneola High School are receiving iPads instead of textbooks to use in the classroom and at home this school year.

The iPod Touch is a device you take everywhere you go. This increases your risk of accidental damage, theft and more. Make sure your iPod Touch is protected with the best insurance available today. Our iPod Touch insurance policies provide replacement cost coverge and protects worldwide. We offer 1, 2 or 3 year coverage periods. Our low premiums, and only a $50 deductible, make our iPod Touch insurance policies affordable for every budget.

Recently Cisco, the worldwide leader in networking, gave their 25 predictions for technology in the future. The findings are incredibly interesting and will probably be pretty close to what we will see in the future. It’s amazing how far we have come just in the past 10 years. It’s almost impossible to think about what types of devices we will be using in the next 10 years.

As the Summer season sets in, we have begun pulling out our suitcases for summer vacation. Common Summer claims result from theft and damage while flying or traveling. With a few simple tips, you can keep your devices safe.