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To Jailbreak or not to jailbreak.  That’s the question. No longer. For a while my iPhone 2G was jailbroken.  It was a neat novelty back when there wasn’t an app store and there were a few cool features you could add via a simple web hack in iPhone OS 1.1.  Some days I miss the [...]

Mashable has a post up about the most popular twitter clients according to TwitStat. I’m not surprised by many of the notable entries on this list, such as TweetDeck.   I use it regularly at work and load it up occasionally on my Mac, but like most AIR applications it is a resource hog and doesn’t [...]

Random Gemini has a great post about the state of local news outlets and the state of the Mobile Web. Many news web sites, especially those using platforms such as WorldNow and flash-hungry or proprietary video players simply aren’t ready for the Mobile Web.  I think this is a great opportunity missed for many of [...]

A new study by ChangeWave research (as reported in Information Week) puts the iPhone as the contining leader in customer satisfaction amount SmartPhone users, though this article says not to count RIM out quite yet. Here’s the truth of it tho.  RIM has spent years focusing their products on the business customer.  Blackberrys do email [...]

The LA Times Technology Blog reports that iPhone developer Craig Hockenberry doesn’t like that there’s lots of free and inexpensive apps on the Apple App store.  Apparently the 2 million downloads a day that Apple claims to be supporting just aren’t his cup on tea.  On his blog he writes: We have a lot of [...]