9to5mac.com has just posted a interesting little iPad tidbit — it seems as if Apple’s latest creation has the ability to make emergency calls.
The image above is a screen shot taken from within the iPad SDK emulator. To get to the emergency call screen the developer simply enabled the passcode lock and entered in the [...]

AT&T is going to extra lengths to make sure their network runs smoothly for iPhone-toting attendees to this year’s South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas. The company has been working with SXSW organizers to make sure they’re ready for the legions of iPhone-clad show-goers.
One of the things they’re doing differently is deploying a Distributed [...]

AT&T has just announced that they’re now expanding the areas in which you can get one of those cool, little 3G MicroCell boxes. You know, the ones that create your own little AT&T cell tower using your home Internet connection?
In addition to North Carolina (AT&T’s initial test area), the MicroCells are now available in parts [...]

Accortding to an unnamed source from within O2, AT&T’s problems aren’t all their fault. Apparently the iPhone’s hardware really is to blame, at least in part. The source says that the iPhone was the first device to use a radio (the hardware bit that talks to the cell tower) that drops the connection as soon [...]

According to the Folks at Engadget, it looks as if Apple is going to ditch the cheap plastic back cover that is on the iPhone 3G/3Gs and replace it with an awesome looking titanium cover. From the picture, this looks awesome, and talk about a lot more durable if the iphone would happen to take [...]

Cult of Mac is reporting that Apple has added an “Explicit” category to iTunes Connect, the portal through which developers submit and manage their App Store apps. According to their developer source:
“It’s available for selection when adding a new app to iTunesConnect although I can’t see any sign of it in the actual App Store [...]

If PCWorld’s second 3G, 13-city performance tests are to be believed, AT&T’s investment in their network just might be starting to pay off:
84% better download speeds than 8 months ago
64% faster than Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon
Average download speed of 1410kps
3x faster in Chicago, 40% faster in San Francisco
94% connection reliability (up from 68% last spring)
iPhone [...]

While speaking at the Goldman Sachs annual tech conference in San Francisco earlier today, Apple COO Tim Cook said the iPad will be avialable at their retail locations retail locations of select partners at the launch of the device. One of those partners that will have it at launch, they say, is Best Buy, with [...]

With the iPad well on it’s way, we’re wondering just how many people are planning to get it. If the numbers from RBC/ChangeWave are accurate, RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky predicts that the iPad might be even more popular than the first iPhone when it launched.
Their survey shows that 8% of their responders said [...]

In a major revision of App Store policy, Apple has effectively banned sexually explicit content from the App Store. According to a letter received by Jon Atherton, developer of an application called Wobble iBoobs (I bet you can’t guess what it does…), Apple has removed his app from the App Store because they “have decided [...]

An unnamed source is claiming that Apple is considering implementing the new Super AMOLED introduced by Samsung at the Mobile World Conference this week. The new components are less expensive and more power efficient. If Apple decides that they’re cost-effective and efficient enough compared to the LCD units from LG that they have been using, [...]

Apple has changed MobileMe’s me.com site, previously inaccessible from iPhone or iPod touch Safari, to not only allow access to Find My iPhone, but to offer help in setting up accounts and getting additional apps. iTunes Preview, meanwhile, has duplicated even more of the media and app browsing experience on the web by adding support [...]

With Apple and AT&T lifting the ban on VoIP over 3G, we’ve been starting to wonder what has taken Skype so long. After their announcement to bring always-on VoIP to the BlackBerry and Android on Verizon’s network, we even thought that maybe they were holding out on us as part of their deal with AT&T’s [...]

Since Apple began allowing over the air downloading of applications and iTunes content on the iPhone, they’ve been capping the size of files you can download over cellualar at 10MB, requiring you to be connected via Wi-Fi for anything larger. However, today Apple is raising the cap, bumping the maximum download size to 20MB. Now [...]

The space-people of Powermat, the guys who make the wireless charging systems for iPhones and other devices that can charge a device simply by having the device rest on them, has announced they are wokring on wireless battery packs that will allow a device to be recharged in the same way as their current Powermat [...]