from its online store in Germany.
Back in December,
, banning the sale of 3G devices in Germany. The removal of the 3G devices is related to the enforcement of that December injunction.
“Apple believes this old pager patent is invalid and we’re appealing the courts decision,” company spokesman Alan Hely said in an e-mailed statement.”
While some iPad and iPhone models are not available through Apple ’s online store in Germany right (more…)

earlier today, Trevor Eckhart of Connecticut revealed that many Android, BlackBerry and Nokia phones come bundled with software called “IQRD” developed by a company called Carrier IQ that secretly logs everything a user does on the mobile phone.
The creepy thing is that Eckhart found Carrier IQ’s software logging even personal information such as text messages and web searches, which has raised serious privacy concerns. Unfortunately, there is (more…)

Back in February, 
, which allowed publishers of content-based 
to sell subscriptions for content such as magazines, newspapers, music and video to users using the App Store billing system.
However, at that time Apple also updated its App Review Guidelines, which required publishers to make the same in-app subscription offer as the one made outside the app.
This did not go down too well with publishers as Apple takes a 30% cut of the revenue (more…)

A group of US Senators have sent an email to Apple , requesting them to remove
.
alert users about speed traps, red light, speed cameras and other law enforcement checkpoints so that they can avoid them. They’re quite popular on the App Store.
U.S. Senators Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), and Tom Udall (D-N.M.) are named as senders in the letter, which is addressed to Apple ‘s senior vice president (more…)

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Folks at Boy Genius Report are claiming that according to their source, Apple is planning to remove the home button from the
and iPad.
We have exclusively been told that the reason Apple just added multitouch gestures for the iPad in the latest iOS 4.3 beta is because the iPad will be losing the home button. Yes, we are told that Apple , at some point in time, will remove the home button from the iPad’s design. Instead of button taps, you will (more…)

as it offers a faster way to disable or enable settings like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G etc instead of the usual process of using iPhone Setting's App.
SBSettings also allows developers to create custom toggles that can be installed from Cydia so that users can access them quickly from SBSettings.
rono23 has created a custom toggle for SBSettings called Remove Background SBSettings, which allows you to remove all the apps in task switcher, thus (more…)

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However, the reason behind Apple 's decision appears to be technical in nature rather than anything strategic.
notes that syncing via USB is not supported by any of the public APIs. As Chris Devor from myPod Apps (the company that built the iPhone Explorer program for Stanza) explains, this syncing was made possible by creating a subfolder on the iPhone 's Digital Camera Image Management (DCIM) folder; the only folder that iPhone apps (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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