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It’s been a little over 24 hours since Verizon announced it will be selling the iPhone 4 in February, and the accessories manufacturers are already jumping at the chance to sell their iPhone cases to new Verizon iPhone customers. Just how different will the AT&T iPhone case be from a Verizon iPhone case? That’s yet to be determined. That being said, Case-Mate has announced its line of Verizon iPhone accessories.

Its new line of cases will vary in a range of colors, textures, and materials. They’re not available for sale just yet, but you can sign up to get e-mail updates and arrival notifications when they are.

Some of the cases look familiar, like the Vroom, and the Gelli, but there are many new designs that are sure to tickle your fancy. Personally, I like the Waddler and the Monsta.

You can see the complete list of products after the jump

Keep an eye out, even when you can’t be there. GVI Security has just announced its new line of VideoPlus analog CCTV products, designed to offer fully-featured performance at a lower price. The new line includes a complete family of cameras and DVRs, including box, dome, bullet, and PTZ cameras. It also offers professional monitors.

While the rest of the world has gone digital, it seems that a lot of the video security market is still analog. Joe Restivo, the COO for GVI Security, says that 60 percent of the market is still using analog products and that the market is growing. This line will helps those users continue to grow their systems. The line will be available in the first quarter of this year, and will include the company’s “epic” five-year warranty and 120-day money back guarantee.

As they say, there’s no accounting for taste. They called David Klein crazy when he gave the world gourmet jelly beans–until they started selling like gourmet hot cakes. And now, more than three decades later, they’re calling him crazy again, just because he’s given the world candy shaped like a bottle of urine.

The man behind Reagan’s favorite snack food has attempted to strike gold for decades since having his best known invention bought out. Klein’s latest confectionary concoctions all seem to largely revolve around the medically grotesque.

In recent years, he’s given the world a gummy gangrened toe, bloody nose, and vomit. There’s also The World’s Largest Gummy Heart, a two and a half pound concoction that looks like a severed heart in a Styrofoam tray. That’ll run you $30. There’s also Formula Pee, a candy bottle of lemon-flavored pee.

It’s the heart that Klein’s banking on as his next success story. He asked AOL, “what’s more perfect than a heart on Valentine’s Day?”

No if only you could get it to say, “Be Mine…”

Microsoft this week filed a complaint with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, asking the organization to reject Apple’s request to patent the term “App Store.” The software giant is arguing that the term was generic long before Apple filed for a trademark, used to describe all manner of mobile application storefronts.

Says Microsoft (or, rather, Microsoft’s lawyers),

Any secondary meaning or fame Apple has in ‘App Store’ is de facto secondary meaning that cannot convert the generic term ‘app store’ into a protectable trademark. Apple cannot block competitors from using a generic name. ‘App store’ is generic and therefore in the public domain and free for all competitors to use.

Even Steve Jobs himself has used the term to refer to competing stores, according to Microsoft lawyers.

Here’s what Apple argues in its own filing,

The vastly predominant usage of the expression ‘app store’ in trade press is as a reference to Apple’s extraordinarily well-known APP STORE mark and the services rendered by Apple thereunder.

Certainly Apple’s store is the first that springs to mind when uttering the term, these days. But “vastly predominant usage” seems a bit much. I know we’ve certainly been guilty of bandying term about in reference to stores from Google, RIM, Microsoft, Palm, and others.

It wasn’t just Ludacris and T-Pain at CES who were plugging their endorsed audio products, rapper 50 Cent was there promoting his new brand of headphones as well. But the TV appearances and interviews were not enough for 50 Cent, who then took to the Twitter waves to make a bigger splash for distributing company H&H Imports Inc. As exemplified in the photo above, 50 Cent plugged H&H Imports Inc., a publicly listed penny stock (HNHI), all weekend on Twitter.

According to BusinessInsider, the company’s stock ended up closing up at 240 percent because of this, increasing the company’s value by $50 million in one day. But was that illegal? The Federal Trade Commission has a law that insists that celebrities must include the word “ad” or “spon” in their Tweets to indicate they’re advertising something on behalf of a sponsor. 

It seems that 50 Cent removed the tweets, perhaps because he got a slap on the wrist since he didn’t disclose his affiliation with the company.