At least the third time this month, Apple and AT & T is now filed in court against the consumer being deceived, thinking that multimedia messaging or MMS, is already available on the iPhone.

Filed in the Northern District of Ohio on Wednesday (PDF hosted by Wired), plaintiff Deborah Carr says Apple and AT & T misled the public, believing that the iPhone 3GS was able to send and receive MMS messages on your device. The lawsuit alleges that “Apple’s print and video advertising … on television, Internet, radio, newspapers and direct mail programs” Everything points to the presence of MMS on the device.

Two similar cases - one in Illinois and Louisiana in the other - were also filed against the companies in August.

According to a recent lawsuit, first reported by InformationWeek, the client says that MMS will be included June 17, 2009, when he was released iPhone OS 3.0.

It seems rather strange, considering that Apple and AT & T announced on June 8, in the world of Apple Developers Conference essential that MMS will not be available until late summer. AT & T confirmed that the deadline for a wired connection on Friday.

“We absolutely will not offer MMS 3GS on the iPhone and iPhone 3G with 3.0 upgrade in late summer, when we finish some system updates, which will provide our customers the best experience with MMS,” AT & T representative said in a statement, referring at Wired.

Lawsuit Carr to admit that Apple has a notice on its website explaining that support for MMS will be available from AT & T in late summer. Nevertheless, a note describing the suit as “mouseprint of responsibility, referring to the small print.

Technically, Apple has allowed MMS in iPhone OS 3.0. The proof is the fact that 29 carriers around the world activated MMS on the iPhone, when the new operating system was released on June 17. It is not available in the United States, as AT & T is not ready to activate it yet, which was disclosed on June 8.

Gregory Makken, from Florissant, Mo, is a lawsuit Apple, because he said two of the company’s iPods, contained the illegal receivers, which allowed the Mafia to send him threatening messages, according to court documents obtained by CNET. 

Filed Wednesday in the St. Louis district court lawsuit names as defendants in the St. Louis Police Department, unknown agents of the FBI, Apple, private investigator, and auto mechanic.

The alleged motive for the threats is that the mafia wanted Makken to serve as a model for them in New York Modeling Agency. Makken said he called local police and the local branch of the FBI, but supposedly nothing has been done. This allegedly allowed the members of the mafia “harass, threaten, attempt to rape, kidnapping and” him.

Makken said that in 2005 he bought on the IPod Shuffle on eBay, and found that when listening device mafia threats to send the audio device. This allegedly enabled by using a receiver installed Apple.

The second device, an IPod Mini, also allowed the Mafia to allow for the creation of death threats, according to the lawsuit.

Makken also said that he had hired private investigators to search his home and car. He argues that the investigator found listening devices in his bedroom, living room, bathroom upstairs, and the Toyota Camry. When asked to confirm his findings by the police, private investigator said he found nothing.

The lawsuit calls for damages of $ 14.2 million.

We have seen stories about the dangers of DWT (driving while texting). But we are now faced with the growing problem of WWT (walking texting)?

Alexa Longueira, 15-year-old from Staten Island, received a painful lesson about the dangers of texting recently. Although the intentions of text messages when she walked on the sidewalk along the area of New York at Victory Boulevard, she stepped right in the open hatch, giving it a few feet of raw sewage below.

   Suffering some cuts and bruises, Longueira was tested at Staten Island University Hospital and released.

In the hatch was left open briefly at the Department of Environmental Protection, as workers capture some cones to cordon to leave the area.

“It was four or five feet, it was very painful. I kind of crawled and DEP works guys came and helped me”, Longueria told a local newspaper in the Staten Island advance. “They were just, like, ‘I am very sorry! I am very sorry!”

For its part, the agency is to treat a serious accident.

“The DEP conducts a full investigation into what happened during the incident at the door of Victory Street., Where workers have been flushing a high pressure sewer on Wednesday evening. We regret that this has happened, and wish the young woman a speedy recovery,” said the representative of DEP Mercedes Padilla .

Jumping into action, the parents have said they were considering a lawsuit. His mother Kim Longueira DEP retains the fault, saying FOXNews, “Something like that should never have happened. There were bumps on the ground, there should have been a man on the spot.”

Longueira mother was particularly upset about the sewage. “Oh, my God, it was rotten.” she said. “One of her slippers was still there.”

This is hardly the first case of danger when walking texting. Chris Matyszczyk, a blogger for CNET News, has bumped its share of problems with the pedestrian. Video from CBS News report about CNET also points to the danger of texting while walking, especially in crowded city streets.

To be fair, we probably all have been guilty at one time or another to concentrate more on our gadgets than the world around us. This is something that could happen to any of us?

CNET forums, meanwhile, have seen comments from people weighing in on this latest incident. What is your opinion? Whose fault is it? And if when-DEP to restore the lost sneaker?

Illinois residents Daniel and Barbara Owens a lawsuit Apple, accusing the company of fraud relating to its iTunes gift card.

The lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in southern Illinois, and received by CNET, demonstrates that the couple is seeking monetary compensation for Apple in the “wrongful, illegal, improper and fraudulent actions.

In Owens Apple claim that markets gift cards, sales of individual songs on iTunes 99 cents each. Couple argues that not all songs from the iTunes Store is that cheap - some actually cost $ 1.29. They claim that they were denied the benefit of its bargain to buy any song from iTunes for 99 cents.

In April, Apple has changed the pricing structure in the iTunes Store to 99 cents per song to a variable model, where songs cost 69 cents, 99 cents, or $ 1.29. In Owens said that they have acquired a few iTunes including two cards of $ 25 cards from March 1, 2008; with Sam in a club, a $ 15 card for 19 May, 2009, with Wal-Mart.

Apple has expanded its presence in many retail outlets for many years, which allows stores like Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Walgreens, and others to sell gift cards.

The company is currently a lawsuit on charges including two of four counts of breach of contract, violations of Illinois consumer fraud and deceptive business practices law, and one charge of violating the statute protecting the rights of consumers.

Apple could not immediately be reached for comment.

It was a busy 24 hours for Apple and Cartier lawyers.