Its not new for Universities and colleges to make things like Laptops and Notebook computers compulsory for students. These gadgets compliment their academics. But some of the universities in the US of A have started making it mandatory for students to own a iPhone or the iPod touch. New students taking admissions this fall will be asked to carry either an iPhone or the iPod touch along with them. The University of Missouri and Houston Community College are some of the few colleges who have gone ahead and adopted this as these colleges will have classes delivered as podcasts through the iTunes store and these universities are also in the process of adopting Apple’s other hardware products. This seems to be a very innovative approach from the universities as they want to be in-sync with their students who are hooked to an iPhone or the iPod touch. Apple will be the happiest of them all. [Via]

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Here you go - a glimpse at the widgets you’ll have access to once you receive the Cupcake update, over-the-air. The process begins on May 11th, and you should get hit within a week or so. I missed out on the Paypal widget because it wasn’t available for me until after this video was uploaded.

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Nokia has launched one more handset that will go into its E Series portfolio, the Nokia E52. E52, as the name suggests is the successor of the slim E Series phone, the Nokia E51, which was pretty popular when it was launched. The phone was launched at Warsaw, Poland and the phone’s main highlight is its 8hr talk time. This time Nokia has got serious with E52, which is meant for enterprise users who are always on the move. The slim enterprise kid also boasts of 23 days of stand-by time, integrated Nokia Messaging, Noise Cancellation, AGPS, 3G, HSDPA, HSUPA, Ovi services, Mail for Exchange and Lotus Notes. The phone also has a 3.2 mega pixel snapper. The phone will be hitting the market somewhere in Q3 2009 and is priced at INR 16,000. By the way, Nokia is also on its way to launch a upgraded version of the immensely popular, E71, the E71i, which will have a 5 mega pixel snapper and S60 FP2

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Sprint posted a surprise quarterly profit earlier this week, but while the news sent shares of the company’s stock up more than 10%, the news masks a much more serious dark side.  Profits were due to a boost (pun intended) in prepaid customers via Sprint’s Boost Mobile, but the US’ #3 cellular carrier also suffered its worst-ever quarterly loss of contract subscribers, according to Reuters.

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According to a new report from PriceGrabber.com, the increased popularity of Web-enabled phones in the United States has helped online shoppers become mobile Internet shoppers. One in 10 online consumers said they purchase online from their mobile device, 16% compare prices and another 16% research product details/specifications. Of the online consumers making purchases from their mobile phones, 58% have purchased digital content for their phone, 51% have purchased consumer electronics, 37% have purchased computers, 36% have purchased books, and 31% have purchased clothing.

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