On October 29th, AT&T had announced for the second (or is it third?) time, that there will be free Wi-Fi hot spots available to all iPhone users at Starbucks locations, as well as other locations across America.
This announcement was given through text message to all of AT&T’s iPhone subscribers, and went something like this:
“AT&T Free [...]

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Rogers has successfully brought itself an extra 191,000 customers, thanks to the arrival of Apple’s iPhone 3G to Canada.
The company announced that, since the introduction of the iPhone in Canada in July, that they’ve sold 255,000 of the famous product as of late October. That is a quarter million in just three months. Hey, not [...]

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As far as we know, Copy & Paste, like landscape note taking/messaging, proper MMS, and turn-by-turn directions are still on the iPhone’s bucket list, but like bucket lists, it seems to be the sort of thing that it will get around to someday.  Before it dies.  It’s almost as if Apple’s vaunted road map includes [...]

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You heard that right.  It’s been three and a half months since the 3G was released, which is an indication of how tough a nut the 3G’s baseband was to crack.  However the dev team haven’t given up, and their perseverance has paid off.  Today, they finally managed to wedge their way into the iPhone [...]

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Polar Bear Farm is today celebrating their 1 year anniversary. Polar Bear Farm has four applications on the App Store as of today, and in celebration of their 1 year anniversary, is marking them all down to a price we can all agree with; Free.

Polar Bear Farm is responsible for the release of Record ($1.99), [...]

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App Generator from AppLoop makes it easy to convert your site to a mobile app in less than two minutes.
AppLoop is a new service that allows anyone with a web browser and RSS feed to create an application, and submit it to the App Store, without having to write a single line of code. The [...]

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Peter Hosey, especially known for his Growl (App Store) and Adium (pre-App Store) applications, has had the idea of starting a website where he can display any and all iPhone applications that Apple has denied from the App Store, along with reasons as to why they were not accepted. Well, most of them anyway. Apple [...]

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The Apple iPod celebrates its 7th birthday today, and will without a doubt celebrate many more.
Apple’s iPod lineup has surely changed since its debut announcement in 2001, with more and more choices to choose from as the years went by. Generations and generations have been announced every few months/years, and Apple always has new and [...]

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OReilly’s iPhoneLive Conference, which was scheduled for November 18th, has been postponed until further notice.
The conference will be rescheduled for another day, that day being unknown at this time. There is no explanation as to why there has been an postponement, but as soon as a new date is set, we will be sure to [...]

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Have a look at a wonderfully written post by Steven Sande via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (see here or via source link) sharing the three best first aid / medical assisting applications available on the iPhone App Store.
“If you came upon someone who was injured or had suffered a medical emergency, would you know [...]

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Despite Google’s recent introduction of the Android mobile operating system, they’re still working with Apple to bring new things to the iPhone.
My guess as to why they are still working with Apple’s iPhone would have to be its popularity worldwide. Apple’s iPhone is, and always will sellout T-Mobile’s G1, so until Android is introduced on [...]

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It’s a serious case of potential infringement of intellectual property, and yet it almost couldn’t be more absurd.
In this corner, you have Steve Sheraton and Hottrix — you may not be intimately familiar with the names, but I’m certain everyone has heard of their flagship creation: iBeer.  Peddled as a “magic” trick in the jailbreak [...]

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Straight from the Not Bloody Likely files comes this tidbit from security firm Trend Micro, known widely for their online and offline antivirus software and internet security packages.
According to Arabian Business, Trend Micro CTO Raimund Genes has apparently revealed in an interview at the Gitex exhibition that the company has plans to release an as-yet [...]

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Yeah, I know.  Not only have I been a relative stranger around here the last few weeks, we’ve slowed to a crawl too.  We seem to be doing this too often, but I do apologize for the relative lack of activity around here.  Here’s the scoop:
I’ve been focusing a lot of effort on Frapstr since [...]

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