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Airport security alert: TSA wants its service rated

Call it crowdsourcing, online rating or real-time reporting. The Web allows for immediate, detailed consumer commentary on products and services.  That feedback has extended to cell phones and reached the airline-security experience through the “Survey on the

Droid + Gizmo5 = Trouble for phone companies

Google has bought Gizmo5 and while one analyst sees a looming battle with Skype, there may be implications for Droid and its ability to bypass toll calls through major carriers.

As virtual goods’ sales increase, so do payment and development opportunites

Social networking sites, online gaming sites and apps are continuing to generate rapid growth in the sale of virtual goods, thereby influencing an expanding market for payment options that are becoming available to the consumer. In turn, greater opportunities for apps developers are becoming available.

Utah case could lead to more limits on electronic messaging to children

Utah has a registry, which withstood a lawsuit from the pornography industry, to help protect children by blocking adult-themed messages from e-mails and cell phones.

Port your iPhone app to Windows Mobile

Want to earn some extra downloads?  Port that iPhone app to MS Win Mobile.  Microsoft has published a case study detailing how to port an iPhone application to its Windows Mobile platform.  For the details, read this case

The Favorite iPhone Apps of Five Geek Rock Stars

Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb obtained the following list of must-have apps from these 5 web übergeeks:

Flaming iPod complaints released after Apple stonewalling

burning ipod

iPods sparking and catching on fire? KIRO, the Seattle ABC affiliate, has obtained 800 pages of documents from the Consumer Product Safety Commission detailing cases of iPods catching on fire resulting in injury.…

AT&T activated 2.4 million iPhone users in 2Q 09

AT&T has reported results for the second quarter and they show that the iPhone if propelling wireless revenue to almost half of the company’s total revenue.

iPhone 3GS sales netted 2.4 million activations.   35 percent of the…

Worker commits suicide after 4G iPhone prototype goes missing

Did Apple’s iPhone manufacturing contractor in China Foxconn torture a 25 year old employee who lost one of sixteen 4G iPhones he was entrusted with causing him to commit suicide by jumping from a 12 story building to…

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