Here are your Apple news items and rumors for Thursday: China Says iPhone Going
4G: Of the many rumors surrounding the technical specifications of the Apple
(NASDAQ: AAPL ) iPhone 5, support for 4G networks like those heavily promoted by
Verizon (NYSE: VZ ), AT&T (NYSE: T ), and Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S ) is among the
few that have been almost universally shot down . That said, there have been
rumblings that China Mobile (NYSE: CHL ) has been pushing Apple hard to
introduce a 4G iPhone. A Thursday report in Bloomberg (via Apple Insider ) said
that China Mobile might be getting its wish sooner rather than later. Chairman
Wang Jianzhou said his company received a positive answer from Apple regarding
the co-development of a 4G phone using the same LTE standard as Verizon and
AT&T. Apple Second Only to Google in Brand Value: Google s (NASDAQ: GOOG )
Android operating system controls a larger percentage of the world smartphone
market, at least in terms of operating system, but thats not the only category
in which the company has stayed ahead of Apple. According to a new study from
London-based reaseach firm Brand Finance (reprinted in a Thursday report at 9 to
5 Mac), Apples brand value grew 33% between 2010 and 2011 , passing Microsoft
(NASDAQ: MSFT ), IBM (NYSE: IBM ), Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT ) and General Electric
(NYSE: GE ) to take the No. 2 spot just behind Google. Different studies have
made different findings, though. A BrandZ brand value study released in May and
reported on by Forbes placed Apple in the No. 1 spot well ahead of Google at
No. 2. Reading Rainbow Resurrected on iPad: Legions of Generation Y-ers and
Millennials had much to celebrate on Wednesday when Levar Burton announced he
would resurrect the television program Reading Rainbow via a new iPad app called
RRKidz. The app will include access to 300 e-books as well as video and game
content. Details on pricing werent released, but a report at TUAW confirmed that
RRKidz will charge a monthly fee for these features . Whether app users will be
able to fly higher than a butterfly in the sky by taking a look in a book
remains to be seen. As of this writing, Anthony John Agnello did not own a
position in any of the stocks named here. Follow him on Twitter at
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