Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is rumored to be working on multi-tasking support for the iPhone.  The iPhone OS 4.0 is expected to be available this summer.  Companies such as Palm and Google have been using multi-tasking as a marketing advantage for their mobile devices so this will change things. [AppleInsider]

Street Fighter IV [iTunes Link] is now available on the Apple App Store.  The download size is about 201MB and it costs $9.99.  You can fight using 8 characters in seven different environments. HADOUKEN! [Joystiq]

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) will be building 5 million iPads in the first half of 2010 according to FBR Capital analyst Craig Berger.  Apple will be launching the device on April 3 for WiFi versions and 3G versions will launch at the end of the month.  Berger expects that Apple will be building 9.3 million iPods in the March quarter, up from 4 million that was predicted.  Desktop units will increase to 1 million from 500,000.  Notebooks are predicted to be at about 1.7 million, up from 1 million.  Berger reduced the iPhone forecast to 6 million from 7.5 million. [Barrons via Techmeme]

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has sold a decent number of iPhone devices in South Korea. Korean telecommunications company KT claims that they have about 90,000 subscribers so far. The 90,000 subscribers include 53,000 pre-ordered phones. The iPhone started selling in South Korea around November 28. In South Korea, about 400,000 people use smartphones in total.

That number is growing at a faster pace. “Triggered by iPhones’ debut in South Korea, the market for smartphones offering e-mail and Web browsing is on a healthy track, giving us a need for more iPhones,” stated a KT representative. KT expects to sell about 700,000 iPhones in 2010. The population of South Korea is about 48.6 million.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is countersuing Nokia Corporation (NYSE:NOK) over patent infringement. This past October, Nokia Corporation decided to sue Apple over 10 patents. Now Apple is suing Nokia back over 13 patents.

“Other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours,” stated Apple General Counsel and SVP Bruce Sewell.

Below is the full response from Apple:
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Guam residents will soon be able to pick up an iPhone through GTA TeleGuam starting on December 11. The phones are able through pre-order starting today. Here is the price breakdown for Guam residents:
- 8GB iPhone 3G – $99.95
- 16GB iPhone 3G S – $199.95
- 32GB iPhone 3G S – $299.95

The phone will be selling online and at certain retail locations such as the Andersen Air Force Base. Guam iPhone users will have to sign up a new plan and contract to get the device at the aforementioned prices. The cheapest plan for having an iPhone on GTA TeleGuam starts at $69.90 per month for unlimited data and 500 minutes.

Verizon and Motorola’s $100 million marketing campaign is hitting Apple in another place where it hurts, the actual design of the phone. In the commercial below, Verizon and Motorola compare the iPhone to a pretentious beauty queen and a princess. “Its not a princess, its a robot” states the commercial when describing the Droid. This ad almost made me feel slightly embarrassed about my iPhone for a minute there when they compared it to a tiara-wearing, digitally clueless beauty pageant queen. But then I remembered how I make money from the App Store and then I felt better for owning an iPhone again.

Looks like the Danny Ocean of Belgium and his friends decided to hit CEVA Logistics where it counts: their iPhone vault. An unknown number of burglars cut a hole in the roof of one of CEVA’s warehouses and ran away with $3 million worth of iPhones (2 million Euros worth). The burglars got to the roof by climbing up a fire ladder. However telecommunciation company Mobsistar could track down the serial numbers for those iPhones and make sure to deactivate them. This way the customers that buy iPhones from the black market will not benefit from the lower than retail prices.