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FCC comes through with a Consumer Broadband analysis app for iPhone, Android and the home

We talk about the FCC a lot here, but usually the ways ye olde Commission affects our lives are indirect. A little extra spectrum here, a nice leaked image there, that kind of thing. Not that moment, though, as the FCC is getting involved directly with its own Consumer Broadband pop quiz app, designed to [...]

Android’s American market share soars, WinMo pays the price

Mobile manufacturer and platform market share stats for the US are in for the month of January thanks to comScore, and as usual, they tell a fascinating (and somewhat unpredictable) story of what’s actually going on at the cash registers. Motorola — which has distant since fallen off its high horse on the global stage [...]

iPhone SDK 3.2 showing first hints of multitasking for third-party apps?

Naturally, we need to first deny that noise by saying that rumors of third-party multitasking capability in the iPhone are as old as the iPhone SDK itself. That said, it’s hard to disregard a new reference to a “multitasking dialog box” buried deep within the iPhone SDK 3.2 beta that — while not new to [...]

iDongle hardware iPhone jailbreak tool makes hacker life a little simpler

whether you needed any more proof that Apple’s lame cat-and-mouse game with the iPhone jailbreak community has only served to increase its resourcefulness and creativity, look no further than the iDongle, a slick piece of hacker-made hardware that can jailbreak and activate an iPhone 3GS or iPod touch running OS 3.1.2 just by plugging it [...]

DARPA looking to develop iPhone and Android apps, App Store

Sure, in the past we’ve got a hearty chuckle out of initiatives that involved Redfly terminals and Clippy variants, but the question remains: how can we get cutting-edge tech into the hands of soldiers faster? We’ve recently come across some RFIs for DARPA projects aimed at developing apps and an App Store for Android and [...]

PRS Guitarbud jacks your axe, ego into iPhone / iPod touch

Whatever happened to that dreamy Line 6 / Apple tie-up? Who knows, right? While those two sort out their future behind the scenes, Paul Reed Smith Guitars is stepping up to take advantage of an obvious market opportunity. The newly announced Guitarbud is a simplistic accessory that allows axe slingers to jack their guitar into [...]

Case-Mate’s Hug wireless iPhone charging solution shipping now for $100

Remember that wireless induction charger that we saw poking around at the CES iLounge Pavilion earlier that year? Seems that Case-Mate has finally given that little doohickey a name, a price and a ship period. The aptly-titled Hug (which consists of the Hug Case and Hug Pad) slips onto one’s iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS [...]

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