29Jul Onion Sendup of iPhone Worship is Hysterical

This should bring guffaws from anyone who thinks iPhone mania has gone too far, and at least chuckles from those who hold “their precious” too close to their hearts.
Parody news masters at The Onion, have put together a wonderfully delicious send up of the entire iPhone craze that features the release of the new iPhone [...]

29Jul Black Hatters to Demonstrate Method of Hijacking Your Phone with SMS

I guess it is a good thing that there are Black Hat conferences where folks show off the techniques that they have discovered to hack into various systems. If folks make a living trying to hack in to systems and be destructive, it only makes sense that folks can make a living trying to stop [...]

28Jul Hacking for Battery Life

Wow. The lengths some folks will go to to squeeze out extra battery life or another charge. Check this out from Prusadjs.cz. He’s hacked a battery from the MSI Wind so that it can be used to charge up other USB devices. Video after the jump.
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27Jul Apple Doesn’t Like Google Voice Apps and Removes Them From App Store

UPDATE: Word later tonight is that Apple is not going to approve the official Google Voice App. Me thinks AT&T should quit spending money on lawyers and start spending some on fixing their network. Then they wouldn’t have to worry about seeing their business model erode right before their eyes.
I wonder what it feels like [...]

23Jul Google Latitude Now Available for the iPhone as Web App

Kevin Tofel of jkOnTheRun and I have been checking each other out from afar (hey, that’s in your mind, not mine) using Google Latitude on our respective iPhones that was just released today. Kevin is outside Philadelphia and I’m in northwestern Virginia.
You read the headline right, Google Latitude is a web app. Apparently, Apple [...]