We know that both Google and Apple collect anonymous data about your phones when we use them. But Eric Schmidt from Google has one pressing thing to say: “You can trust us.”

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The Boy Genius Report just got a pretty interesting scoop concerning iTunes cloud services. Laid out:

1.) Streaming music and movies from Apple’s servers to your computers, devices, etc.

2.) Streaming music and movies from your home computers to your other computers, remote devices, etc.

3.) Wireless iTunes syncing with devices

I’m very excited for all three. I was trying to pick one, but all three are just too awesome.

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So what exactly is Firefox Home? It’s your Firefox history, bookmarks, and open tabs right on your iPhone. So between sessions and saved goodies on your Mac and Windows versions of Firefox, you can take it with you via Mozilla’s newest iPhone app. Pretty cool huh? But keep in mind this isn’t a true sync: things only get pushed one way to the iPhone. Still, it’s pretty nifty if you want to take everything with you. Oh, and it was just submitted to be approved or denied by the overlords at Apple headquarters.

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So what do you do when you can’t hold a device as advertised? Like any good American, we sue. Three class-action complaints were filed in the states of California, Maryland, and Texas; AppleInsider reports, “Apple has been accused of violation of the Federal Communications Act, three counts of products liability related to negligence, defect in design and breach of implied warranty, intentional and negligent misrepresentation, fraud by concealment, unfair business practices and more.”

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Steve Jobs is pretty awesome when it comes to handling customer emails. I admit I might be more prone to send something long winded and terse back to my most brash adversaries, but Jobs is always as cool as a cucumber. Fortunately it’s not a journalist this time, but instead some dude getting worked up over the iPhone 4’s antenna issues.

But this dude had a youtube video which an Apple engineer saw. So the engineer contacted ‘Tom’ (as Boy Genius names him -later called out as Jason Buford), and as with everyone else, Tom was told the antenna problem was a non-issue. The most arrogant trollish rage ensues in the emails, but Steve Jobs himself eventually intervenes with a confident nerve and appropriate demeanor.

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Cisco might have their Cius (a new fangled Android tablet that docks into - wait for it - a corded telephone hub), but such vaporware might not be able to make a dent once the iPad takes hold in corporate America. David Hornik of August Capital writes, “Where once they carried Palm Pilots, now they hold an iPad under their arm. iPad is the new cool toy.”

9 to 5 Mac comments,

For business users, at least, the iPad is a more discreet computing device than a laptop, but offer all the bits and pieces that may be required: calendar? Got it. Email? Right here. Browsing? Yep. Output presentations to Keynote to a video projector using the iPad? Sure can. Play Civilization for hours while the rest of them speak the usual garbage? Of course. It just works.

Business users admit it’s difficult to type on the iPad, but they could always use an application like SoundPaper to supplement text with audio from their meetings. But let’s hear it from you guys: are any of you corporate go-getters replacing your laptops with iPads? Let us know in the comments.

[via 9 to 5 Mac]

So you’re a rich Russian guy devoted to design. What’s to do? Make a supposedly awesome iPhone 4 case out of African Blackwood and (count ‘em) 18-karat gold. And that’s not any African Blackwood either. It’s 200 years old. Whoa.

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Christ T., a MacDailyNews reader, wrote in to ask Steve Jobs about HD video. “What’s the point of building in HD video capabilities when the compression upon uploading directly to youtube makes the video’s useless and not viewable?” But it’s not that big of a deal (it’s really not), and while Steve could have said that, he gave us an interesting tidbit instead. “You can upload them via a Mac or PC today. Over the air in the future.”

So those high def movies you’re making? You’ll be able to upload them over the web (uncompressed) eventually. Just not now.

[MacRumors via MacDailyNews]