Apple store employees have caught four teenagers jailbreaking iPhones - downloading third-party applications onto a demo iPhone. This caused them to be banned from the Apple store “for life”.
Daniel Fukuba (left), 17 years old, and Eric Vicenti (right), 16 years old, met up with two friends; Noah Rogers and Anjay Patel, at a local Apple [...]

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I came to the iPhone from a long line of Palm devices.  Since 2002 I’ve owned a Vx, m505, Soly Clie’ SJ33, Zire72, Tungsten T|5, Treo 650, and Treo 680.  (Not including the Windows Mobile devices I’ve owned.)  To be frank, I have a big soft spot for the PalmOS’s simple, clean, efficient, and extensible [...]

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With about a week and a half to go to the start of WWDC08, we are about to enter the Hell Week of the rumour circuit — the time when the sheer volume of rumours coming from every source grows to such a degree that it gains its own gravitational pull. From the wishful [...]

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This year’s BREW conference had some tasty surprises for iPhone lovers. First and foremost, developer IG Fun announced, and showed some brief early footage of Bioshock.
You heard me. Yes, that Bioshock, Mister Bubbles and all.
I’ll give you a moment to pick your jaw off the floor and mop up the drool. (Hey, we [...]

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You knew it was coming, and now here it is. The iPhone Blog brings us a comparison of the well known Apple iPhone (first generation, of course), and the brand new BlackBerry Bold.
If you are too lazy to compare the two products for yourself, just have a quick look at the video provided below, and [...]

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On May 20th, Apple had released a new ad for iTunes, featuring the band Coldplay. The advertisement makes use of Apple’s well known silhouette-ad style, endoursing a beautiful spectrum of color. The band sings their new song Viva la Vida within the ad. The advertisement was featured during an episode of the popular American Idol [...]

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Thanks to the rather startling discovery people who bought refurbished iPhones made, we now know that even completely restored iPhones still contain personal data on them, because a restore doesn’t actually delete your data, it waits until you overwrite it with new data — much like deleting a file on the hard drive. It [...]

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Since we’re on the subject of security, phishing has taken a new tack recently. It seems that phishers are now targeting iTunes users in attempts to steal their personal information.
The scam this time around attempts to convince users that there is a problem with their iTunes billing information, and directs them to a [...]

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Rogers Communications, Inc., the parent company of Rogers Wireless, is expected to prosper, despite fears of competition from potential new upstarts generated by the Canadian Radio and Television Commission’s wireless spectrum auction.
Though Rogers’ stock took a significant 8.3% tumble last November when the CRTC laid out the rules for the auction, which reserved 40% of [...]

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You might want to hide your iPods and laptops the next time you travel across the Canadian/USA border, as a new deal could create a international regulator that could turn border guards and other public security personnel into copyright police as well.
Direct quote off of canada.com:
OTTAWA - The federal government is secretly negotiating an agreement [...]

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Fans of the classic NEC TurboGrafX 16/PC Engine, your emulation fix is nigh, for ZodTTD’s TG16/TurboDuo emulator temper4iPhone has been released to the beta tester’s club. It emulates both standard TG16 HuCards as well as TurboDuo CD games, and installation creates all of the necessary directories you will need to get started.
Games need to [...]

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Demand for unlocked iPhones, mixed with the shortage of in-store stock, with the extreme rumors of the 3G iPhone being announced at WWDC08 have driven iPhone prices on eBay sky-high. There are some 16GB’ers being sold at an excess of $700, an added $200 over brand new models purchased from Apple or AT&T.
Of course, auctioneers [...]

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(FiTotW stands for Free iTunes of the Week) Apple provides a list of a select few pieces of media in which they provide to the masses for free, each week. The media listed below will not be free for long, so hurry up and take advantage of this great opportunity while it is still here.
Sorry [...]

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It was noticed that there is a job entry within the jobs section of the Apple website which is entitled “Lead Camera Design Engineer - iPhone”.
Here is what the listing reads:
Duties include research into both current and future camera technologies, evaluation of proposed solutions, executive presentation of current and future options, working with suppliers to [...]

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Thestreet.com took the time to interview Gary Krakow about what he wants to see within the second-generation iPhone.
Gary Krakow has put together a list of the top 15 changes he wants Steve Jobs to make before the new iPhones hit stores this summer. His list was in fact larger, but he had to cut it [...]

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