Verizon offerring $25 iPhone plan for Apple Store staff

Verizon is reportedly offering a special promotion for Apple Store staff, allowing employees to sign up for a Verizon iPhone contract for as little as $25 per month. The best monthly rate requires users to pay the full unsubsidized price for the iPhone, which starts at $650 for the 16GB version and jumps to $750 for the 32GB variant.

Employees can also obtain the iPhones for the discounted prices of $200 and $300, respectively, but they must pay the standard monthly rate for 10 months before the price drops back down to $25 for the last 14 months of the contract, according to details posted on ifoAppleStore.

Both options fetch a significant savings when spread across a two-year period. The plans include unlimited talk time and texts, along with 'unlimited' data, which carries a $120/month price for standard customers. The basic plan with 450 minutes of talk time and a data plan equates to $90/month.

Los Angeles Apple stores offering exclusive headphones this NBA All-Star weekends

If you're around Los Angeles and need some new headphones this weekend, your local Apple Store has a deal for you. To celebrate the NBA All-Star Game, Skullcandy is selling its NBA All-Star Aviator headphonesin Apple Stores exclusively, this weekend only. At $180 they're not cheap, but they are some serious premium headphones.

If you're the kind of person who likes owning exclusive gear, and you were planning on picking up a nice pair of headphones anyway, they're yours to hunt down and buy... unless you're an NBA All-Star player, in which case Skullcandy is giving you a set already, personalized with your own signature and jersey number. Most of us aren't NBA All-Stars, so everyone else will have to head out to the mall. If you do pick up one of these this weekend, let us know how it goes. This seems like a weird deal for Apple to host officially, considering the small potential audience.