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Nicola Lange, Lufthansa’s director of marketing and customer relations for the Americas, has posted a letter on his Twitter account to Gray Powell, the Apple engineer who lost the 4G iPhone prototype in a German beer hall in Redwood City, offering complimentary Business Class tickets to Munich. Read more…
Be careful how many iPads you buy because the Apple Store may decide that you have reached your ‘lifetime limit’. That’s what happened to a medical student who was doing a favor for international members of the NeoGAF gaming forum.
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A new survey has found that women are more likely to give out their phone number to men who have iPhones.
CultofMac reports that a Phones4U survey of 1,500 women found that 54% of them would be more likely to give their digits and date an iPhone owner than a non-iPhone owner and 37% said that owning an iPhone makes a man seem more reliable. Read more…
Virginia Campbell, a 99-year-old woman from Lake Oswego, has finally bought her first computer — an Apple iPad. “It’s changed her life,” one of her daughters told OregonLive.com. Virginia has been an avid reader most of her life, but she suffers from glaucoma, making reading increasingly difficult.
Because of the iPad’s ability to adjust the brightness of the page and to increase the font by simply tapping, Virginia has been able to take up her beloved past-time again. Not only is she reading again, she’s writing again too. So far she has composed twelve limericks on her iPad, including this little ditty: Read more…
David Letterman list the Top 10 Excuses of the Guy Who Lost His iPhone Prototype.
10. Couldn’t call Apple for help cause I lost my iPhone
9. I’m more of a Kindle guy
8. You mean besides being drunk out of my mind
7. Distraught Kate Gosselin kicked off “Dancing With The Stars”
6. Thought there was an app that would wisk it back to my house
5. It must have fallen out of my iPants
4. Volcanic ash run
3. Let’s just blame Goldman Sachs
2. At least I didn’t lose my finger like that iPad guy
1. It didn’t work anyway – it uses AT&T
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The general look and feel of the prototype iPhone recently discovered and disassembled will likely be very similar to the final shipping product of the next-generation handset Apple will release this summer.
Citing sources familiar with Apple’s fourth-generation iPhone, Daring Fireball’s John Gruber revealed that the barcode affixed to the prototype device obtained by Gizmodo, which read “N90_DVT-GE4X_0493,” gives insight into how far along Apple is in the design of its next-generation phone. Read more…
Planetbeing has announced that he has got Android running on the iPhone.
“Finally breaking radio silence to bring you Android on the iPhone. 
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I’ve been working on this quietly in the background. Sorry about the initial video quality, but YouTube promises that the quality will get better as the video gets processed more. The back part of the version I uploaded to Vimeo was cut off. Read more…
A California hospital plans to distribute more than 100 Apple iPads among its health care workers to allow them look at X-ray images, EKG results and more on the portable touchscreen device, according to a new report. Read more…
Some will cheer, others will groan, but it seems that the love-it-or-hate-it Facebook game, FarmVille, is on its way to iPhone and iPad. A recent search of domains has uncovered both farmvilleiphone.com and farmvilleipad.com, both reserved by the same company currently overseeing Zynga’s official FarmVille website. This means that sooner or later, we’ll probably be seeing official clients for Apple’s mobile devices. Read more…
Apple has posted a support document targeting iPhone jailbreaking, noting that “unauthorized modification of iPhone OS has been a major source of instability, disruption of services, and other issues,” including compromised security.
The article addresses “adverse issues experienced by customers who have made unauthorized modifications to the iPhone OS (this hacking process is often called ‘jailbreaking’).” Read more…