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Cellphone inventor Marty Cooper uses a Droid.... and a Jitterbug

from engadget - 16 minutes ago

Sure, you read reviews and take recommendations from friends before you buy a new cellphone, but have you ever stopped to consider what the inventor of the cellphone uses on a daily basis? C-SPAN has, and recently took the opportunity to ask the man himself, Marty Cooper, that very question during a wide-ranging interview. While Cooper said that he has used an iPhone previously, he recently passed it on to his grandson in favor of a Motorola Droid, which he says he chose because he wanted to get more experience with Android. But that's not all, Cooper also revealed that he car ...

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Multitasking in for iPhone 4.0?

from slashdot - 2 hours, 1 minute ago

The latest word on the iPhone is that the 4.0 OS will finally have honest-to-goodness multitasking. This could hopefully lead to things like a real chat client, and dangerous battery consumption. I still hope it's true.

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DARPA looking to develop iPhone and Android apps, App Store

from engadget - 2 hours, 16 minutes ago

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 the iPhone OS, with two in particular -- Mobile Apps for the Military (D ...

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The Future Of Camera-Based Input Shown Off In iPhone App [IPhone Apps]

from gizmodo - 2 hours, 18 minutes ago

Novothink rolls out Solar Surge iPhone / iPod touch charging case

from engadget - 3 hours, 16 minutes ago

It's not November '09 as originally promised, but Novothink has now announced that its Solar Surge charging cases for the iPhone and iPod touch are finally available. Those will run $79.95 for the iPhone 3G/3GS version and $69.95 for the iPod touch version (second gen only, it seems), which are each available only in black or white at the moment (additional colors are "coming soon), and should add between four and eight hours of talk time, or up to 20 hours of additional audio playback ...

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Apple Blocking iPhone Security Software

from slashdot - 4 hours, 1 minute ago

Speaking exclusively to PC Pro, Eugene Kaspersky has claimed Apple has repeatedly refused to deliver the software development kit necessary to design security software for the phone. "We have been in contact for two years with Apple to develop our anti-theft software, [but] still we do not have permission," said Kaspersky. Although he admits the risk of viruses infecting the iPhone is "almost zero", he claims that securing the data on the handset is critical, especially as iPhones are increasingly being used for business purposes. "I don't want to say Apple's is the wrong way of behaving, or the right way," Kaspersky added. "It's just a corporate culture — it wants to control everything"."

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Apple iBooks' Many Ebook Categories Include "Erotica" [Unconfirmed]

from gizmodo - 4 hours, 18 minutes ago

Uncovered by research firm Busted Loop, via Forbes, among other data like 16,700 iPhone apps have been iPad-certified, is a list of possible ebook categories for the iBooks store: More »


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Irresistible iPhone Apps Fridge Magnets [IPhone]

from gizmodo - 5 hours, 18 minutes ago