Be jealous no more Android fans! (OK, maybe a little bit longer.) FL Studio is coming to your mobile OS of choice. No longer will it just be iDevice owners who get to channel their inner 9th Wonder on the go. Soon enough the company will release a version of its loop-based music-creation suite designed to work on both phones and tablets running Google’s portable platform. We don’t have a price or release date yet but, as a consolation prize, there’s a video of the progress being made on the port after the break.

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An Apple store in China.

China Telecom Corp., the No. 3 player in the Chinese mobile market and the world’s largest CDMA operator, has managed to add 9 million subscribers in the third quarter and 26.4 million so far this year. That’s almost twice the 4.7 million added during the quarter by the top three carriers in the U.S. No wonder mobile players such as Apple and Amazon are so eager to get into the market.

China Telecom, which trails China Mobile’s 600 million subscribers and China Unicom’s 181.6 million customers, said 7 million of its 9 million new additions for the quarter subscribed to 3G services. The Chinese are at the early stage of 3G mobile broadband adoption, and are also in the middle of a huge nationwide fiber build out. So it’s not only the huge population drawing mobile firms’ eyes, but the growth in mobile broadband adoption.

Unlike the U.S., where growth is now coming from people carrying multiple lines and adding machine-to-machine connections, the Chinese market is far from saturated. According to Wireless Intelligence, the analyst arm of the GSM Association, by the second quarter of 2012, there will be 1 billion Chinese using mobile phones — about 74 percent of the population– and a quarter of them will subscribe to 3G services.

With China Telecom expected to get an iPhone, the growth possibilities are pretty substantial. Heck, even on an unsupported network the Chinese are fans of the iPhone. For example, UBS China Telco Analyst Jinjin Wang estimates that in the first half of 2012 China will add a significant boost to Apple’s earnings.

Another UBS report notes that Amazon is also planning a big Chinese push, hoping to launch the Kindle there.

Onetto, Senior Vice President, Amazon IT in an interview told Sohu that AMZN is in discussion with Chinese regulators over copyright issues with regards to Kindle products. Separately, AMZN changed the branding of Chinese e-commerce website Joyo.com which it acquired in 2004. Joyo will now be known as Amazon China. AMZN also announced the opening of a fulfillment center in Kunshan, Jiangsu province. The new fulfillment center is AMZN’s largest outside the US and occupies an area of ~1.3MM square feet.

As with all U.S. efforts to expand into China, the lure of growth is offset by government interference and concerns over counterfeiting and IP protection. But when faced with a billion potential customers, it’s no wonder firms believe the risks are worth it.

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While some may have bristled at Steve Jobs calling Bill Gates an unimaginative copycat in the Jobs biography released last week, Gates says he was not one of those people. In fact, Gates says he totally gets why Jobs would, from time to time, say some pretty mean things about him. He basically suggests it was professional jealousy.

For instance, Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson, “Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he’s more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology,” and “He just shamelessly ripped off other people’s ideas.”

Here’s how Gates responded in his Sunday interview on ABC’s This Week:

“Over the course of the 30 years we worked together, you know, he said a lot of very nice things about me and he said a lot of tough things. He faced, several times at Apple, the fact that their products were so premium priced that they literally might not stay in the marketplace. So the fact that we were succeeding with high-volume products, you know, including a range of prices, because of the way we worked with multiple companies, it’s tough. And so the fact that at various times, he felt beleaguered, he felt like he was the good guy and we were the bad guys, you know, very understandable.”

Gates seems to be referring to the Apple that Jobs returned to in 1997, when the company was 90 days from bankruptcy. Jobs eventually ended up making a deal with Microsoft to invest $150 million into the company directly as well as develop Microsoft software for the Mac, which was a  huge boon to the Mac platform. And that’s also probably was Gates was referring to earlier in the interview when he sort of took credit for creating the Mac: “Steve and I worked together creating the Mac, we had more people on it, did the key software for it,” he told Christiane Amanpour.

“We” is obviously Microsoft. And as previously mentioned, they did develop Office, Internet Explorer and other development tools for the Mac. But Jobs and possibly a few others at Apple might take exception at the “worked on creating the Mac” bit.

Even so, Gates reiterates his respect for Jobs despite the blunt quotes about him that Jobs gave to his biographer:

“I respect Steve. We got to work together, we spurred each other on even as competitors. None of that bothers me at all.”

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London (CNN) – eHarmony's Sean Cornwell is figuring out the best way to translate the dating site's message of love into new markets.

The site – which prides itself on its ability to bring people together into long term relationships – is expanding its brand in the UK.

Cornwell has chosen an agency to help create the killer television ad. But British daters might want a different message than those in the U.S. Will this match work?

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