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Also shitcanned by Apple in the Great App Store Purge of 2010: Wi-Fi scanning apps. The reason being that they used private frameworks to access wireless info.

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BTW, Wi-Fi Scanner Apps Were Begging to Get Banned by Apple [App Store]

It was only a matter of time before some compulsive texter found a way to get text messaging and driving together again. Called the Road Train , it’s mean to save fuel, but we know it’s true purpose, don’t we?

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Road Train Autopilot Saves Money, Would Mercifully Restore Driving-While-Texting [Road Train]

After it was pulled in December due to some bugs, Layar is back in the App Store, available for iPhone 3GS users. [ Layar via Mobile-Ent ]

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Layar, the iPhone’s Best App, Is Back In the App Store [IPhone Apps]

Attention, classic JRPG fans! You can now grab both Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy II from the iTunes App Store for $9 apiece, complete with touch-friendly controls and bonus dungeons. The original Final Fantasy includes the five bonus dungeons, The Soul of Chaos pack and The Labyrinth of Time, added to later editions of the game.

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Final Fantasy I & II Now Available for the iPhone/iPod Touch [IPhone Apps]

10 billion. We can count up to 10 billion. But we won’t.

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iTunes Will Sell 10 Billionth Song Today [ITunes]

Apple claims they removed those 5,000 boobie apps because women were complaining over the “degrading” and “objectionable” content . Correct me if I’m wrong, but the removal of the SuicideGirls’ app—which actually empowers women—seems most questionable. Sure, the free app features nudity.

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Apple’s "Boobie Apps" Banning Resulted In the SuicideGirls’ Removal [IPhone Apps]

Over the past few days we’ve watched app after app after app become a casualty in Apple’s gradual clean up of the App Store —a ban on nearly all titillating apps. Apple executive Phil Schiller finally explains what happened: It came to the point where we were getting customer complaints from women who found the content getting too degrading and objectionable, as well as parents who were upset with what their kids were able to see. As those women ignore the existence of parental controls, Schiller continues to explain that Apple “obviously care[s] about developers, but in the end ha[s] to put the needs of the kids and parents first.” Somehow that’s supposed to help us understand why Sports Illustrated’s and FHM’s apps remain in the App Store : When asked about the Sports Illustrated app, Mr.

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Why Apple Banned Sex Apps: We Were Getting Complaints From Women [Apple]

Lenovo’s workstation laptop has gotten an overdue upgrade in the form of the W701ds, and now its guts are every bit as over the top as its integrated secondary display. Seriously: this thing is a hoss. To start, you’ve got up to Intel’s Core i7-920 Extreme processor, a 17-inch WUXGA (1920×1200) primary display, and Nvidia Quadro FX 3800M graphics

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Lenovo ThinkPad W701ds Pairs Beastly Specs With an Integrated Secondary Screen [Lenovo]

Crestron is one of the biggest names behind home automation . They’ve already released an iPhone app , allowing you to control your “AV systems, lighting, shades, room temperatures and more” from your phone. Now that app is coming to the iPad.

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Crestron Home Automation Systems Are Now iPad Compatible [Crestron]

Researchers at the University of Michigan have created a prosthesis that makes walking much easier on amputees than current options. The trick: an artificial foot that recycles the kinetic energy generated by walking. The device works by mimicking the natural push-off of a human ankle, using a microprocessor to control the device and capture the energy normally dissipated by the leg: In tests on subjects walking with an artificially-impaired ankle, a conventional prosthesis reduced ankle push-off work and increased net metabolic energy expenditure by 23% compared to normal walking. Energy recycling restored ankle push-off to normal and reduced the net metabolic energy penalty to 14%.

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Artificial Foot Recycles Energy With Every Step [Bionic]