No more sleepless nights for Apple’s lawyers, at least not until the Nokia and HTC suits begin to heat up. The company is now the proud owner of a slightly used trademark: iPad™, as of March 17, is no longer a Fujitsu mark and has been assigned to Apple. Much speculation had surrounded the trademark process for iPad, as Fujitsu’s mark was being challenged by Apple as early as September 2009, but it looks like the two companies have come to some sort of agreement. Read more…

Apple is readying two categories of explicit apps for the iPhone and iPad, according to MacStories.

The site has found these two URLs (here and here) which lead to sections for the “Top Explicit Paid Software” and “Top Explicit iPad Software”.

The categories are currently empty, and I suppose it’s because they’re not actually ready yet. I think it’s just another technical error by some engineer at Apple.

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I believe it meets the requirements for a good video.

The jailbreak is all software based, and is as simple to use as blackra1n. It is completely untethered, works on all current tethered models(ipt2, 3gs, ipt3), and will probably work on iPad too.

Don’t ask about a release date. You won’t make it happen any sooner.

[Via iphonejtag.blogspot.com]

Apple seems to have accidentally leaked listings for iPad titles already approved for the iPad onto iTunes Preview.

The discovery was made by PadGadget

We did a quick scan and were able to find several titles clearly marked as “HD”, a common label developers are now using to indicate an iPad specific version of their app. Read more…

An iPhone got hacked in just 20 seconds at this week’s Pwn2Own hacking contest at CanSecWest 2010, reports Ryan Naraine for ZDnet. Hackers Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Philipp Weinmann demoed an exploit that allowed them to send a target iPhone to a web site that they’d set up online, and then copied off the entire SMS database on the iPhone (including deleted text messages) to their own server. Read more…

The Parrot AR.Drone quadricopter was probably the coolest thing ever controlled via iPhone or iPod touch… until this. Dave Phipps has hooked up a ‘69 Pontiac GTO to his iPod touch — he’s been rebuilding these cars for a long time, and this particular one was picked up out of a farm for just $400. Read more…

Another analyst believes with ‘increased confidence’ that Apple will make a big splash this summer with a new iPhone form factor.

Barclays Capital analyst Ben Reitzes writes,

“iPad yields should improve dramatically throughout the year even if the launch starts out capacity constrained. These developments support upside to consensus forecasts for the iPad Read more…

The developer of SpringBoard Rotator, the tweak of which we have spoken several times, has just announced via Twitter that by the weekend, the application will be sent to Saurik to be included in Cydia Store.  Read more…

Robot Touchscreen Analysis from MOTO Development Group on Vimeo.

A new test of touchscreen smartphones with a precise laboratory robot has confirmed what a human test already concluded: Apple’s iPhone touchscreen is far and away the most accurate touch panel on the market.

The test, conducted by MOTO Labs, compared an iPhone using the SimpleDraw application with a number of other touchscreen smartphones: Google Nexus One, Motorola Droid, Palm Pre, HTC Droid Eris, and BlackBerry Storm 2. As the company, which has no relation to Motorola, discovered earlier this year, the iPhone is in first, followed by the Google Nexus One in a distant second place. Read more…