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The internets are a rocking with posts about the iPhone’s App Store unofficially hitting 100,000 apps, but while we wait for official word from Steve Jobs, the blogsphere is also debating the important of the sheer quantity of those apps, and whether that’s more important that quality. It isn’t. Scoble (and others, I think MacBreak Weekly covered [...]

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Closing in on 100,000 Apps, is iPhone All About Quantity or Quality?

In these tumultuous times you need some sort of protector; the kind that will prevent your iPhone from flying off the seat to who knows where. What kind of protector is here to save the day? The iGrip cigarette lighter mount of course! [$19.95 - TiPb store link] This handy mount plugs right into your existing [...]

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iGrip Custom Fit Cigarette Lighter Mount Reality Review

UPDATE 3: As pointed out in the comments, there’s no sign of ad support in Google Maps Navigation (at least not yet). It’s just free as in free. UPDATE 2: According to Gizmodo, Google: implied they are working closely with Apple now on [Google Maps Navigation]. iPhone 2.2 saw Google Street View, could iPhone 3.2 see [...]

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Updated: Google Maps Navigation [Free as in Just Free] for Android 2.0 — Coming Eventually to iPhone

Google already provides the free Google Maps service (with Street View, pictured above), but could they be planning to step up to full on turn-by-turn navigation? Forbes thinks so: Google, which generally gives its software away for free and recoups its investment through advertising, would likely sell ads within the navigation application rather than [...]

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Google Working on Free [Ad Supported] Turn-by-Turn Navigation App?

Apple’s iPhone has hit 30% marketshare in the US, according to ChangeWave. When laying out the current players, 4,225 consumers were surveyed, 39% of whom owned smartphones, and of those the top 3 answers were RIM’s Blackberry down ever-so-slightly to 40%, the iPhone up 5% to hit that 30% mark, and Palm steady at 7%. [...]

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iPhone US Marketshare Hits 30%, Tops Most Wanted, Huge Lead in Customer Satisfaction

During ARM’s Q3 financial results announced today, 9to5Mac noticed this little gem: including a license for ARM's 2GHz implementation of a dual core Cortex-A9 processor. We’ve heard about the Cortex A9 before. Purportedly, is 5x faster than an intel Atom, yet uses the same amount of power in a 60% smaller package. Could this be [...]

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Could 2GHz ARM Cortex A9 Chip be Future iPhone/iTablet Bound?

Apple has made Wireless Mouse Software Update 1.0 available for both OS X 10.5 Leopard and OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard users eager to add the new multi-touch Magic Mouse to their existing system — when they become available. That’s right, outside of buying one of the brand new iMacs Apple released last week (which [...]

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Apple Ships Magic Mouse Software Update — But Still No Magic Mouse