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Apple's incredible success in selling more iPhones could be due to one new statistic.

According to pollster ChangeWave

According to Paul Carlton, research director at ChangeWave:


AT&T reported a record third quarter of its own with 3.2 million iPhone activations. The company added 1.3 million ...

BSD Telecom, Inc - the company behind the BluffMyCall service and iPhone app - has released the Application Programming Interface to their system to developers in order to spur development for other platforms. With mobile versions currently available only for BlackBerry and jailbroken iPhones, BluffMyCall offers a lot of tools to modify how your calls are received.

The company offers a free peek (after ...

Ripdev has been a presence in the iPhone community for a good while now. They took over Installer from Null River, and worked WITH Null River for a while before doing so.

They're behind Icy, Kate, and a few more notable iPhone softwares.

And now, they're shutting down.

Citing only "circumstances" as their reasoning, Ripdev states they'll be closing their doors, ceasing all support, ...

This week China Unicom starts selling the Apple iPhone legitimately in China. The new phones - reportedly priced at an astronomical ¥5,000 (about USD $700) each - will join an estimated 2 million black market iPhones in the People's Republic. According to reports, a China Unicom subsidiary has agreed to give service to all the black-market iPhone users, too.

China Unicom is the smaller ...

Helping prepare the world for combat with a potential global Swine Flu pandemic, Harvard Medical School is modifying our iPhone into a full blown anti-Swine Flu device with a little help from their new application - The Swine Flu app.

Now available for download at a cost of $1.99, the new iPhone app is designed to provide alerts about Swine Flu outbreaks within your geographic proximity.

From the Washington Post:

The app also provides a "hot line" guide to help you locate and obtain medical treatment in your community. If you're feeling under the weather, you can even check your symptoms to see if any match those commonly attributed to the H1N1 virus.

I tested out the app yesterday and am happy to report I appear to free of the illness. However, the app still managed to scare the life out of me ...

We're getting a lesson today in output courtesy of input from our friends at iFixit.

Apple Insider chronicled their efforts confirming that Apple's new 27" iMac can only be used as an external display for devices designed to provide DisplayPort video. You're out of luck if you're hoping it would work with equipment supporting VGA, DVI, or HDMI output.



Although some are scratching their heads upon realizing ...

According to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission chairman, the rapid growth in bandwidth usage by mobile devices like the iPhone threatens to overload the available electromagnetic communications frequencies - or "spectrum," as the FCC refers to it - allocated to such devices. As a result, creative new policies will have to be implemented to avoid a "spectrum gap," the chairman said.

In a Q&A ...

Another week, another load of Apple Tablet rumors. Today's grab bag ranges from the sketchy to the plausible: a leaked photo of a supposed new SIM tray from a future Apple device, and some unguarded comments by the executive editor of the New York Times.

First, from the website chinaontrade.com comes a picture of something purporting to be an "Apple iTablet iPhone 4 Generation SIM Tray." The assertion does ...

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Apple has made it very clear that it wants to go green.

If that's the case, some are suggesting that Apple may get a "charge" out of the standard for a universal phone charger that has just been approved by the International Telecommunication Union.

Although it seems highly unlikely that future iPhone/iPod Touch models will be completely revamped to accommodate this "universal" endeavor, many ...

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Israeli iPhone app developer ApParty found their North American sales jumped earlier this month after a T-Mobile Android ad started running showing a lookalike to ApParty’s novelty iPhone app iFog. Now, as AppAdvice reports, a second developer has also noticed a big ...

George (GeoHot) Hotz released version RC2 of his blackra1n "all device" jailbreak tonight. The update fixes a number of issues, and includes a working version of Icy along with Mac support.

In the initial release, blackra1n jailbroke all iPhones and iPod touches running on iPhone 3.1.2 firmware except for the newer 8GB iPod touches. The update, blackra1n RC2, jailbreaks all iPhone ...