The Wall Street Journal has confirmation from Gary Shapiro, the head of CES, that Apple will be officially present and showing in 2010. Shapiro has attempted to contact Steve Jobs to ask him to do a keynote at the event, but Apple has yet to respond.

Update: The Wall Street Journal has retracted its statement that Apple will attend CES. There has been no confirmation so far.

CES takes place in Las Vegas, January 7-10.

Nikon today unveiled the two newest additions to its digital SLR lineup: the budget-friendly D3000 and the video-capable D300s.

Today Minigore [App Store] from Mountain Sheep and Chillingo was released for $0.99! You may remember that we recently showcased Minigore before its release and we're very excited to see it drop! If you don't remember, Minigore is a third-person shooter which puts you in control of John Gore. The objective is to defend John from the "Furries" with his machine gun and other weapons.

Check it out!

Techcrunch asks the impertinent question: can AT&T handle the iPhone. The pertinent answer thus far is: no. The iPhone is a consumer success the likes of which no smartphone has experienced before. There are more users using more features that consumer more bandwidth that likely even Apple or AT&T ever estimated, and it’s put an extreme hurt not only on existing infrastructure, but a hurt that’s growing faster than infrastructure expansion can handle.

The answer to many is simply to have the iPhone on Verizon, which is believed to offer a better network. While obviously splitting the iPhone between AT&T and Verizon would lesson the individual demand on both — load balancing the user pool, so to speak — we’re curious as to whether or not Verizon could have, or could still, handle the iPhone all by itself.

It’s largely reported that Verizon was the first US carrier offered the iPhone after all. If they’d said yes, and if the iPhone grew on Verizon as fast (or faster, given their reach) than AT&T, would Verizon have suffered the same problems — and bad reputation — AT&T is suffering now? CDMA towers, while serving more with less, still have their limits, after all. (TiPb’s heard that some feel BlackBerry hits CDMA networks hard — they ain’t seen anything like the freight-train of hurt the iPhone is bringing.)

So, what do you think?

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Poll: Could Verizon Handle the iPhone?

AppleInsider has caught wind of a potential change in the way the App Store is being organized. They say that developers are currently being asked to supply a list of keywords for their submitted applications to improve the way they are discovered by customers and hopefully combat the trend of dropping prices.

PC World's Ian Paul takes a closer look at Twitter's new home page, which the microblogging service changed to attract new users.

Apple has responded to questions submitted to them from the Copyright Office concerning a proposed DCMA exemption for jailbreaking iPhones proposed by the EFF. Apple claims that not only is the iPhone's DRM a crucial part of their business model, but it also that jailbreaking could actually help facilitate drug dealers and crash cell towers.

ProSoft Engineering has updated its hard drive maintenance and optimization utility for the OS X 10.6 release. Also, Realmac launched a new Web service aimed at creative pros and AJA updated its Kona video capture cards to support last week’s Final Cut Studio release.

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The U.K. advertising watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority, says Apple is correct when it claims its App Store is better than the Google store for the Android.

In a TV ad Apple claimed that the iPhone had apps for "just about anything". Fans of the Google Android, or at least ten of them, complained that their phone offered a similar and equal function.

Apple responded that it made the claim "only on the iPhone" because its App Store "provided users with a unique experience unmatched by any other application marketplace, including the Android Market".

"Because Apple had shown there were far more applications available for the iPhone than the G1 phone, and user experience of the iPhone and the App Store was distinct from its competitor, we concluded that the claim 'only on the iPhone' was justified and not misleading," said the ASA in its ruling.

The Apple App Store has about 50,000 applications, while Google offers about 2,100.

In the past, Apple hasn't done too well with the ASA. In November an iPhone ad was banned for misleading customers about the speed of the phone on the internet. Apple also had to pull ads for its first generation iPhone in August of 2008.

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Taiwan-based Foxconn has agreed to compensate the family of a Chinese employee who committed suicide last week after misplacing an iPhone prototype.