Thanks to iPhonix for the vid.

First it was the whole jailbroken iphone in a commercial click here if you missed it and now this. It seems jailbreaking the iPhone is becoming more common to the public. Me2600 a fellow iphone user was at bestbuy going on about his day and to his surprise he saw an iphone on display, yes yes I know we all see iphones on display but to his surprise this one was jailbroken with Rockapp and Mywi installed. All I can think is way to go best buy employee who had to have taken the time to jailbreak, browse for and install the apps on the iphone then put it on display for the world to see. May I also recommend installing some other cool apps that might catch peoples attention such as nes or intelliscreeen.

Note: Pay close attention to the 29 sec mark of the video, it seems whoever installed MyWi somehow patched or did some easy workaround to make the normal 14 day trial of the app last 3451 days.

An AT&T executive this week made comments to assure customers that the exclusive carrier of the iPhone in the U.S. will not implement tiered data plans.

The comments from Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO of mobility and consumer markets, came just a week after the AT&T official said the company would likely provide incentives to encourage bandwidth-hogging customers to “reduce or modify their usage.” What kind of incentives were never made clear, though de la Vega said it is inevitable that high-bandwidth users will be charged for what they consume.
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Verizon, the largest wireless provider in the U.S., is reportedly investing in its network to make it capable of handling extra traffic from Apple’s iPhone, a company official said.

In an interview with BusinessWeek, Anthony Melone, Verizon Wireless’ chief technology officer, said his company is prepared if Apple decides to end its exclusive agreement with AT&T in 2010.

“We have put things in place already,” Melone reportedly said. “We are prepared to support that traffic.”
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Blockbuster has released its official application for the iPhone and iPod touch.

With BLOCKBUSTER’s new app you can search an incredible 95,000 movie titles. Add, delete and reorder movies in your BLOCKBUSTER Movie Queue. Find your nearest BLOCKBUSTER store, and see if the movie you want is in stock. You can even link the app to your BLOCKBUSTER by Mail account and manage it all from your iPhone. And the app updates you on all that’s new and exciting at BLOCKBUSTER. It’s like having all of BLOCKBUSTER right in your pocket.
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Though previous studies found the iPhone was outselling Windows Mobile devices and had a greater presence online, Apple’s handset finally unseated Microsoft devices in terms of overall use in October, a new study has found.

The latest survey of mobile operating system marketshare from research firm comScore found that the iPhone spiked to nearly 9 million U.S. users by the month of October, pushing it well past Microsoft’s total of just over 7 million users. In July, the two companies were about even in total mobile OS market share. The latest survey data was obtained by FierceWireless.
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A major US defense contractor announced an iPhone app yesterday that it would make available to support troops in the field. One Force Tracker is an app developed by Raytheon that uses the phone’s GPS to track friendly and unfriendly forces, show their positions on real time maps and provide secure communications. Raytheon – otherwise known as the world’s largest producer of guided missiles – noted that the app can also be used by first responders like police, firemen, and emergency medical technicians.
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