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Two weeks (almost to the day) after Apple banned boobs, babes and bikinis from the App Store, ZDNet is reporting that Apple has begun removing another entire class of applications, only this time it’s not quite as titillating. According to Macworld Apple has quietly begun purging the app store of Wi-Fi scanner apps, also known [...]

District Attorney Janet DiFiore paid Consumer Reports a visit to help get the word out about the dangers of TV and furniture tipover. DiFiore said her staff had recently investigated the death of a four-year-old child in Westchester County who was killed when a 32-inch tube television fell off a dresser. The DA’s office is [...]

One drop. Five minutes in a pocket with your keys. Three months of regular use. This is all it takes for an iPhone’s backplate to go from a mirror-like shine to a scratched up eyesore. Here’s how to fix it. MacRumors forum member Shenaniganz08 salvaged an iPhone 3G from eBay, sanding, buffing and polishing it [...]

3G anywhere is great, but locking yourself into a two (plus) year contract to get access to it is decidedly less-so. Enter Telava, a prepaid wireless company that is launching its so-called Broadband Bullet. It’s a simple USB modem that you can pop into your port-having device and get online at typical 3G speeds, the [...]

Face it, folks — the days of windows being just windows are behind us. Before long, our panes will double as widget displays or makeshift televisions, and AIST has the prototype to prove it. The demonstration seems to utilize technology that’s far different than that seen in Samsung’s iceTouch PMP, but it’s certainly no less [...]

Miyamoto may have been dropping hints about some new Nintendo hardware recently, but it looks like a true Wii successor isn’t among the options in the short term. That’s according to Nintendo’s Cammie Dunaway, who told GameSpot during the company’s just-concluded Media Summit that she doesn’t see a proper Wii follow-up coming “anytime soon.” She [...]

The stats are in for smartphone gender preferences! The numbers reported above are based on a AdMob survey of 963 total respondents consisting of 318 Android, 244 iPhone, 356 iPod touch and 45 webOS users in English speaking countries. According to the data collected between 5 February to the 16 February, men make up a [...]

You don’t think the Robot Apocalypse is upon us, but we assure you, it is. The HUMAVIPS project, which will span three years and hopefully result in robots being developed with “social skills,” may seem innocent — even beneficial — at first blush, but let’s think about it. Will “humanoids with auditory and visual abilities [...]