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One developer emailed this video and rejection letter for their app called Pull My Finger. Especially concerning is that Apple did not reject it due to it being offensive, but instead rejected it due to "limited utility": "Hello Developer, We've reviewed your application Pull My Finger. We have determined that this application is of limited utility to the broad iPhone and iPod touch user...

Users are reporting via AT&T's and MacRumors' forums a major data outage for much of the eastern half of the United States. The outage, which appears to have begun early this morning seems to be affecting both 3G and EDGE connections. Voice and SMS communication is unaffected. Users have been reporting the issue from as far west as Missouri and Illinois, as far north as New Hampshire, and as ...

A couple of temporary sales on the App Store provide significant discounts from the normal price of the following apps. Milebug - Mileage Log [App Store] is normally priced at $9.99 but is temporarily priced at $2.99. Milebug says it makes it easy for you to track your tax-deductible mileage on your iPhone or iPod touch. The price is reduced temporarily until the next update is released. ...

Gameloft has released their Asphalt 4 Elite Racing [App Store] game to the app store tonight. The $9.99 game was originally expected by the end of July. The new racer provides some unique features such as Wi-Fi multiplayer mode so you can race against your friends. Other features claimed...

A new report claims that the ongoing negotiations between Apple and China Mobile are making some headway. According to an "insider", China Mobile will be relying on handset subsidies to bring the iPhone to China. This new plan apparently takes the place of revenue sharing plans that had been a sticking point of negotiations in the...

If you're not a doctor, medical student, health care professional or even doctor-turned-blogger, then you can probably skip this post. Mediquations Medical Calculator [$4.99, App Store] provides a set of frequently used medical equations from your iPhone. Over 40 common equations are supported, including the MDRD, Free Water Deficit, and Fractional Excretion of Sodium. The launch of the...

Pogo Stylus Macenstein took the time to review two iPhone styluses that are available for the iPhone: iPhone Japanese Touch Stylus ($14.99) and the Pogo iPhone Stylus ($19.99). For the purpose of the review, Macenstein used the styluses as an artists tool for iPhone apps like Flipbook [App Store] and Kineo (formerly Flickbook) [App Store]. While the Japanese Touch Stylus wins points for...

iFlix screenshotFor online movie rental enthusiasts, two applications are now available to manage either your Netflix or Blockbuster rental queues. iFlix Flix [App Store] is a $1.99 application that allows you to manage your Netflix queues. The developer describes the app: Add, remove, and reorder ...

Silicon Studios offers a series of tools for audio enthusiasts to provide Midi controls from their iPhone or iPod Touch. iTM MidiLab (Free) - free demo of the tools iTM Keys ($5.99) - Midi keyboard iTM Matrix (...

Orange France is admitting that they are capping iPhone 3G speeds to 384kbps; this as a recent survey has showed significant regional differences in speed. Orange will be bumping the cap to 1Mbps on September 15, however that cap is still under HSDPA's theoretical maximum and less than what European T-Mobile users have been experiencing (up to 1.8 Mbps). [IT Wire via France Info...

China.org.cn reports on the photos posted to our forum last week of a Foxconn factory worker. Forum user markm49uk had found the photos on his brand new iPhone. This led to speculation on the identity and the fate of the factory worker's job. Fortunately, it's been confirmed that the employee was not fired based on comments from a Foxconn representative: "She is definitely not fired," an...

Jeffrey Grossman's Movies [Free, App Store] has been acquired by Flixster and been rereleased last night as a complete rewrite. Version 1.5 adds a number of new features: - Expanded list of movies and theatres - Movie posters and descriptions for all movies - Trailers for all Box Office leaders and upcoming movies - Search of over 50,000 movies with posters, description, cast and...

Noah Witherspoon, the developer behind the current #1 application on the App Store, has revealed that Tris [Free, App Store] will no longer be available as of Wednesday, August 27th. The Tetris-clone caught the attention of the Tetris Company who claims a "copyright" claim on the game. The trouble is, I'm a college student, and not an affluent one, and I simply do not have the time, energy,...

Swedish website Gtesborgs-Posten is reporting that tests of the iPhone's antenna are "completely normal," which may go to counteract suspicions that ongoing connectivity issues are due to the iPhone's antenna. The test was conducted by Bluetest, a small company that sells test chambers for wireless devices with small antennas, and the results were compared to a Sony Ericsson P1 and a Nokia...

Wired published the results of their international speed tests for the iPhone 3G. Results came in from over 2,600 individuals and did find significant regional differences in testing. When broken down by country, they found that participants in Australia had the slowest average 3G download speeds at 759 Kbps. Meanwhile, results from individual carriers showed that European T-Mobile had ...

Apple has posted three new iPhone commercials to their site. The three commercials illustrate the use of the App Store to download apps directly to the iPhone using different examples. - 'Lonely Planet': demonstrates downloading Lonely Planet's Mandarin Mobile Phrasebook [App Store] in order to learn how to ask for a restaurant recommendation. - 'Cro Mag': demonstrates downloading Pangea...

Macenstein points us to an interesting video which claims to create a "holographic" effect on the iPhone by performing real time adjustments to the image based on rotation: The application works by assuming a constant viewing angle (35-45 degrees), typical for when the device is placed on a tabletop. The 3d scenes perspective is warped using...

Yesterday, an MSNBC writer pleaded to Apple to send a text message to its users notifying them of the new Firmware update. Word-of-mouth is often how dismal news spreads. But when you have more than 1 million people to whom the information needs to get to, worth-of-mouth doesnt cut it. Web message boards dont cut it. Not commenting doesnt cut it. And if the news involves iPhone problems, Apple ...