Be a Dummy: Fake iPhones for $20 each?... File this under strange: a website called iPhonedummy.net is selling extremely realistic looking but non-functional iPhone dummies - for $20 each. Yes, take your time, read that again. As incredibly useless as that sounds, there are a lot of practical uses for this thing. Of course, many of the uses...

Be a Dummy: Fake iPhones for $20 each?... File this under strange: a website called iPhonedummy.net is selling extremely realistic looking but non-functional iPhone dummies - for $20 each. Yes, take your time, read that again. As incredibly useless as that sounds, there are a lot of practical uses for this thing. Of course, many of the uses...

iPhone 3GS manufacturing boosted 20%, ac... Several blogs have published claims indicating that Apple has pushed up its manufacturing orders for the iPhone 3GS by up to 20%, definitely suggesting people are not tired of the device, and demand and sales continue to be very strong. According to one article from DigiTimes (http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20091027PD219.html): “Apple...

Historic Earth: Another actually useful ... Historic Earth is a mapping app that permits you to overlay historic maps on modern maps, which can make for fascinating study and underscores one of the ways the iPhone can be a great research tool and school aid. It claims one of the largest collections of geo-coded maps of any app anywhere. Historic...

NASA app released to the App Store... NASA, the US spec agency dedicated to the exploration of space, has announced the release of an iPhone application available for free download right now. The app enables people to be updated to the very latest in NASA happenings, including real-time updates of orbit locations of NASA spacecraft in real-time...

App Store: 100,000 approved apps mark pa... Apple’s now famous App Store has passed the 100,000 approved iPhone app mark. Truly amazing to think about. The mark is an “unofficial” milestone of sorts, however, as the count of currently available apps stands at only 92,000 or so. The difference results from the removal of applications...

AT&T stating 3.2M iPhones activated ... AT&T published its much-awaited earnings report for the third quarter 2009, where they activated an astounding 3.2 million iPhones,the highest such number in the iPhone’s brief history. AT&T even stated (in a figure that must be scary even to them) that 74% of their “smartphone device”...