reported about a case where a 15 year-old Belgian had claimed that his iPhone exploded.
Apple claims that based on their initial investigation; the incidents are not due to any battery problems, but have instead been caused by exerting excessive force on the iPhones' screens.
Herve Novelli, French consumer affairs minister who met Apple 's sales director in France, Michel Coulomb regarding the incidents has accepted Apple ’s findings for (more…)

According to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the victim was approached by two men who asked him to handover his wallet and asked for his PIN number for his credit cards at gunpoint.
The victim later logged into his MobileMe account to find the location of his iPhone and informed the police.
The police were able to nab the robbers at a gas station and also recovered a pellet gun, stolen ID cards, credit cards and cash.
The two robbers will be charged (more…)

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Good news comes to the iPhone workforce on Thursday, in the form of an update to Quickoffice Mobile Suite. The latest version will now create and edit the Word and Excel documents native to Microsoft Office 2007 on Windows, and Microsoft Office 2008 on Mac. Prior versions did not support these DOCX and XLSX formats.

The change brings Quickoffice Mobile Suite ahead of its (more…)

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Find My iPhone , a service Apple provides to MobileMe subscribers, is certainly paying off for one Pittsburgh-area man. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the man was robbed at gunpoint in the Shadyside area of east Pittsburgh by two men who demanded his credit cards and their PINs.

The local Pittsburgh police reported that the victim, who was not identified, handed over his wallet, PINs, (more…)

, developer of the iPhone app it looks like the following issues have been fixed:
Joe Hewitt has also tweeted that the notifications error is a server side issue, which will be fixed in a day or two.
One of the problems with the Facebook app is that you can’t play the videos. Hewitt has clarified that:
“We still have some work to do to convert all our videos to a format iPhones can play.”
You can download Facebook 3.0.1 using this
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Apple ‘s exclusive deal with AT&T to offer the iPhone may end within the year, according to a prediction from financial analyst Gene Munster, a senior research analyst at Piper Jaffray.

If Munster is correct, opening up the iPhone to other carriers in the U.S. could be a boon for Apple , which would likely see iPhone sales go through the roof. On the flipside, if this prediction were to come true, it would likely mean very bad news (more…)

Snow Leopard, the OS released for Mac on Friday, poses no new wrinkles for the redsn0w jailbreak or ultrsn0w unlock.
You can use redsn0w to jailbreak any iPhone or iPod Touch using OS X, Windows, or Linux. For both 3.0 and 3.0.1 firmwares, you should point redsn0w at the 3.0 IPSW. If you see it hang at “waiting for reboot”, just unplug and replug that USB cable.
You can use ultrasn0w to unlock the iPhone 3G/3GS, or BootNeuter to unlock the (more…)

The “Free Memory” feature as the name suggests allowed iPhone users to free memory on demand.
Without the “Free Memory” feature, the iStat app might still be
quite useful for users as it tells you how much time is remaining for
various tasks such as making calls, using the internet, watching videos
and listening to music depending on your iPhone ’s battery life.
It also allows you to remotely monitor your Mac, Linux or Solaris system.
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As I’ve already told you, managing hundreds of apps on your iPhone isn’t easy. To date, I’ve acquired via evaluation license, beta testing, downloaded or purchased a total of 292 iPhone apps, though only 207 currently reside on my iPhone .

The dilemma stems from the fact that new app icons typically go to the first available space on your home screens. You’ll also find your existing icons rearranged after you install updates, (more…)

“We believe China Unicom's high-speed mobile broadband network, coupled with … (the iPhone ) will create new communication and different experiences for customers in China,”
said Unicom CEO Chang Xiaobin at a news conference.
If China Unicom wants to be successful then it should take some pointers from the failure of the iPhone in India, the world’s second largest mobile phone market. Since the carriers there don’t offer any subsidy, (more…)