Make Your iPhone Stand On the Super Cheap – I was very disappointed when I opened up my brand new 3G iPhone and didn’t find a little plastic bit that would hold it up on my desk while I watched movies (this happens all the time). Now I’m less disappointed, since I can prop it up using pencils and erasers.
iPhone Now Used to Help Stutterers – No simple app could accomplish it alone, but entirely reprogrammed iPhones are being used by folks at the Hollins Communication Research Institue to help treat people plagued by persistent, chronic stuttering. The software evaluates and scores coping behaviors taught in therapy.
DopeWars Makeover Brings it App Store Acceptance – Unsurprisingly, App Store reviewers didn’t let an iPhone optimized version of DopeWars make it into the App Store, but developers remained undeterred and took it back to the drawing board and came up with Prohibition 3: Candy Wars. You can probably guess what they changed.
Apple Hinting at Legal Action vs. Palm Over Pre? – Part of the Apple conference call, towards the end, has PC Magazine thinking that Apple may be planning to take Palm to court over their recently released Pre smartphone. In no uncertain terms, Tim Cook says they’ll hunt them down like dogs if it turns out they stole Apple IP.
Conference Call Summary: iPod/iTunes Success – Here’s a good breakdown of what the Apple Q1 fiscal conference call was all about, courtesy of The Washington Post. Also, retail is slowing. No big surprise in this economy. We’ll see next time around how the Steve Jobs
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