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Apple released one of their biggest software updates to date for the iPhone this past Friday in the form of iPhone 2.1.

Gears is an open source project that enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to your web browser: - Let web applications interact naturally with your desktop - Store data locally in a fully-searchable database - Run JavaScript in the background to improve performance

After Wednesday's announcement and release of the new iPod Touch with 2.1 software, iPhone users around the world can finally rejoice with global roll-out of iPhone 2.1.

I have created a Google mailing list to send out announcements about updates. From now on this will be the only email list that I will use to send out update announcements. If you want to be notified about updates, make sure your name is on the list. The website to add your email to the list is: http://groups.google.com/group/marksutilties

Version 2.1 of the firmware(INFO) for Apple's iPhone and iPhone 3G smartphones is now available through iTunes. This new firmware offers a handful of bug fixes as well as some stability improvements. Apple also claims that the new firmware will increase the iPhone's battery life for most users, in addition to more accurately displaying 3G signal strength.

Security makes my head spin, but I want to digest this some time…

I copied this /etc/profile from a near-clean Mac OS X Server 10.5.4 after first puzzling over files at /etc/paths.d/ not having the desired effect, then reading at http://littlesquare.com/2008/01/24/upgraded-to-leopard-making-use-of-etcpathsd-and-path_helper/ that "Depending on your upgrade path to Leopard, your profile may or may not have been automatically updated.".

When you review an Apple product, you can be sure that readers will say one of two things: either you didn't rate it high enough or you rated it way too high. Rarely, if ever, is there any middle ground.

As excitement heightens for the launch of Apple's iPhone in India Friday, two Indian techies from the US have pitched in to offer a free download of their mobile application on iPhone for photo sharing, with value added features to boot.

People keep finding photos in their new iPhones, and these keep getting weirder and weirder. This time, Giz reader Bryan Offenhauer found this funny shot of an anonymous guy next to a human-sized Gundam

Nearly everyone who owns a computer and loves gaming is excited about a game called as Spore. The game released yesterday for the PC platform. However, Electronic Arts was also developing it for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Now EA Mobile has sent word that Spore Origins will release for those platforms later this month.

While straitened circumstances in the banking industry might mean the suits eat more sandwiches at the desk, the rule remains that there is no such thing as a free lunch.

Would you pay your full cable bill if there was static on the screen all month? Buy a dozen eggs if three of them were broken? How about paying $30 a month for the same service that others get for $20 a month?

Adding a fashionable touch to Research in Motion's formidable arsenal of telephonic, PIM, and media tools, the BlackBerry 8320 Curve for T-Mobile is also the smallest, lightest BlackBerry phone that includes a full QWERTY keyboard

Apple and AT&T are facing another lawsuit over the iPhone 3G.

The Better Business Bureau warns consumers about numerous schemes associated with Apple's new iPhone 3G.

The iPhone may be an Apple product, but that hasn't stopped plenty of Windows users from jumping in and buying one. With Apple's free iTunes software, Mac and PC owners alike can synchronize music, movies, photos, and now even third-party applications.

O2 has finally revealed the pricing and availability for the Apple iPhone 3G on "Pay & Go" basis in the UK - details that were expected back in July.