Molinker, the prolific Chinese development company behind numerous iPhone apps, saw all its titles pulled from the App Store on Sunday after an attentive user noted that most – if not all – of its five-starreviews appeared to be fake. The scam caused over 1,000 apps – nearly 1% of all of the titles on the App Store – to disappear at once.

The user, “SCW,” contacted a Glyn Evans of the iphoneography blog whom he knew to have contacts at Apple top management. SCW had noted something odd about the glowing (and poorly written) reviews of the “NightCam Pro” app and went through the applications offered by Molinker. As many as 90% of the reviews on some of their applications appeared to be written by a group of people who only reviewed Molinker applications. On “NightCam Pro”, for example, 42 of the 44 5-starreviews appeared to be fake.
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Slashdot reported last week on research published by Swiss iPhone developer Nicolas Seriot about security holes in unjailbroken – that’s UNjailbroken – iPhones that could potentially compromise email accounts, browser history and even keytaps held in cache. The closed and unmodifiable nature of the stock iPhone OS means that malware could be carried by any app: even one legitimately purchased and downloaded from the App Store.
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Apple’s surprise purchase of music streaming service Lala last week has been given an unconfirmed price tag of about $80 million, placing a premium on the company.

Citing multiple sources, Peter Kafka of MediaMemo reported Monday that Apple’s acquisition price was less than half of what investors agreed to pay in 2008. However, it is more than the $35 million the company had raised, meaning some — but not all — could see a return on their investment in the company.
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AT&T has released an iPhone application that gives customers the ability to notify the carrier of their location when they experience poor service.

“AT&T Mark the Spot” was released in the iPhone App Store Monday. The 0.3MB free application, version 1.0.1, requires iPhone OS version 3.0 or later.

“AT&T Mark the Spot is an application that provides customers a means to provide feedback on network user experience to AT&T,” the application’s description reads. The nation’s second-largest wireless carrier also listed the following features for its new software:
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One quick question guys, real or fake?? What do you think?

Download:

Big thanks to my man studguy1 over at xsellize for the next day crack on this one. He has removed the rockapp dependency meaning no need to install it.

• Install BTstack from cydia
• Rename the downloaded nes deb above to nes.deb
• Copy the file to var/mobile on your iphone and install using ifile by tapping on it or do the following
• Open up mobile terminal
• Type in su (press return)
• Type in alpine (press return)
• Type in dpkg -i nes.deb (press return)
• Respring or reboot and enjoy

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Alright guys it looks like our time to shine is here and it is the jailbreak comunity’s time to help GeoHot. George Hotz the creator of blacksn0w/blackra1n is asking for our help, I don’t know what he needs help for but he has given so much to us that this is a must. As you can see above he is saying he will give us an untethered jailbreak and also if i read it correct $1000.oo if we help trend and do something today at 9 A.M Est time so set your clocks to wake up and be ready.

Zodttd has done it once again and this time game emulation on the iphone will never be the same. Nes4iPhone is a new nintendo emulator for the iphone and no it is not just another simple emulator. Check out the video below, yes that is for real you see a wiimote using bluetooth connectivity controlling the emulator on the iphone. Can you really use your wiimote to play games on your iphone, yep “there’s an app for that”. The only tiny flaw with this app is you have to install it through rockapp which a lot of people don’t like as rockapp conflicts with cydia.

Kick it old school playing games like ExciteBike, Super Mario Bros, Zelda, Mike Tysons Punchout, and more! This fully featured emulator comes equipped with save states, battery saves, full sound, zipped rom support, and a fast framerate. It even has custom controller skins!

Note: Trial times out after 2 minutes of gameplay.

Features include:
- WiiMote support via BlueTooth capable devices!
- Fast assembly CPU emulation!
- Download to the ROMs directory within the app!
- Portrait and landscape support.
- Controller overlays are able to be skinned.
- Save states!
- Smoothed scaling options.
- It’s FAST and it works great on both 2.2.1 and 3.x firmwares!