SHOCKER! Apple Got More Cash Flow Than The US Government!!!!

With all this debt ceiling talk taking over the news, the federal government might want to borrow some money from Apple Inc.

Come to find out, Apple's most recent earnings topped the U.S. Treasury. As of July 27, the government is holding $73.768 billion compared to Apple's $76.156 billion.

Apple's business practices, at least when it comes to money, is handled differently than the federal government.

Apple takes in more money than it spends, while the government spends more money than it takes in and that's why the lucrative company has way more cash on hand than Uncle Sam

Second-gen Apple Peel 520 caught on video doing GPRS, looking like an iPhone 4

Last year's Apple Peel 520 turned your iPod Touch into an iPhone mostly, accepting a SIM card and allowing you to send and receive calls, texts, and even throwing a little extra battery life your way. Now we're looking at the next generation device and, which certainly looks a lot more sleek and less bulky than the previous model -- from a distance it could be confused for an iPhone 4. This version also allows the use of GPRS data, as you can see demonstrated in the video below. No mention of price or availability just yet, but review units are said to en route to other news sites, so hold that phone -- or iPod as it were. Source: engadget.com

Visualized stats smartphone users

As AT&T's iPhone exclusivity reluctantly teeters on the brink of oblivion, it seems a good time to take one last look at the smartphone playground, the way it is before V-Day. The New York Times has handily done that job for us with the above chart, which simultaneously gives us a sense of scale when comparing US carriers and lays out the concentration of Android devices across those networks. It also shows a big fat bump of iOS on AT&T, making it the biggest carrier in terms of combined iPhone and Android users -- nothing shocking there, but the real fun will be in taking a look at this same data a few months from now. Will the iPhone fragment itself all over the four major networks? Will AT&T's Android stable ever be respectable? Tune in to your next installment of "fun, but mostly irrelevant statistics" to find out.