Horatio Toure, of San Francisco, stole an iPhone today off a woman walking down the street and was promptly arrested 9 minutes later.

Why so fast? Toure stole an iPhone that was being used to test software that tracks GPS location in real-time, allowing the company and the authorities to track Toure's exact location everywhere he went.

The woman he stole the iPhone off of was Jordan Sturm, an assistant at Covia Labs, the company designing the software. Sturm was testing "Alert & Respond," the app that allowed for real-time GPS tracking.

David Kahn, the CEO of the company, was following Sturm on a laptop, showing off the "Alert and Respond" software to his PR team. Because Toure was riding a bike when he stole the device, it appeared, in real-time, that Sturm had suddenly grown wings or wheels, leading to suspicions by Kahn.

The suspicions were confirmed when Sturm ran back to the office and informed her boss.

Besides tracking location in real-time, the software can also remotely turn on the phone's camera and take a pic, or turn on the mic and record what is being said.

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Verizon, the largest wireless carrier in the United States, reported earnings on Thursday and showed that they added more contract customers in the quarter than rival AT&T did, despite AT&T's exclusive rights to the latest iPhone.

For the quarter, Verizon added a net 665,000 contract customers, thanks mainly to a steady rollout of strong selling Android devices.

AT&T reported a net addition of 496,000 contract customers, even with the launch of the iPhone 4.

Those numbers, which follow a trend, have led many to believe that Apple has almost fully saturated the market for the iPhone with AT&T, with most new buyers being users upgrading from past iPhones.

"We still see a lot of upside here now that we're in a much better position from a device line-up perspective," added Verizon CFO John Killian.

In the smartphone and "messaging device" market, however, AT&T hold a significant lead, with 53 of its contract subscribers owning such devices. Verizon only has 35 percent for that key stat.

Verizon has a total of 92.1 million subscribers, including contract, prepaid and wholesale.

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