After running into fierce opposition from the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice AT&T has agreed to end their 9 month bid to acquire T-Mobile USA.

When Apple announced the inclusion of Siri on the iPhone 4S during the October 4th special event, it was only going to be a matter of time until clever consumers and technical boffins alike demonstrated the true power and versatility of the Personal Assistant . With most innovative devices and technologies, it isn’t long until somebody comes up with new mind blowing ways to use the functionality for previously never thought of uses.

There are over one million iPhones using the T-Mobile network. To use the Apple branded device, one would have to complete the jailbreak and unlocking process. Before T-Mobile offered micro-SIM cards, some elbow grease was also required

Almost two weeks ago, we heard reports of Verizon “blocking” Google’s NFC-based mobile payment system Google Wallet on the Galaxy Nexus . Verizon later stated this was due to the fact that Google Wallet needed to be integrated with the hardware. Then, just yesterday, developer lukegb over on XDA-Developer Forums released a working APK for Google Wallet which could be sideloaded (read: installed) on the Galaxy Nexus just like any other APK, which does, technically, prove Verizon’s theory of it requiring to be “integrated” to be wrong

Right. Before we go any further, please follow along as we have a collective rant about ‘people familiar with the matter’ and other such madness