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Limor Fried’s MintyBoost project is a great example of DIY and commercial tech working together. Take an Altoids tin, a couple of AA batteries, and some very smart hackery, and you’ve got a lightweight USB charger that…

Gary Fong, the company behind those plastic-cup-like attachments you see atop many a photojournalist’s flashguns, has come up with an iPhone 4 tripod…

Apple’s iPhone users may be buying more apps but when it comes to mobile ads, it is Android customers who are click happy, says an online…

IPADock. Its name may sound more like a place to keep your iRacehorses, but the curiously-capitalized accessory is probably the most useful desktop gadget ever. Plug it…

Who doesn’t love them some simulated pinball action? Me, that’s who, but I still like this tiny little box that turns your iPhone into a miniature…

Apple and Google haven’t been BFFs lately, but the search giant still seems to care about iPhone users. Kind of, sort of. Google this week released…

Your next iPhone might listen to your heartbeat or scan your face to identify its rightful owner and it could react with anti-theft measures…

Apple’s iOS4 is hurting many an iPhone 3G, slowing them into uselessness for many who have installed the update. Whatever is going on, a fix…

Surveys reveal that a substantial chunk of U.S. customers plan to buy a tablet in the next year, and it’s not necessarily going to…

London detectives on Wednesday arrested nine people suspected of a massive iPhone and credit card scam.

The suspected thieves eight men and one woman are…

Apple has long been an icon for quality products, but its overflowing iOS App Store is a crapshoot: Nuggets of quality are buried in a…

The only surprising thing about the Iphone QWERTY keyboard is that it took so long in coming. That, and the curious capitalization of iPhone in its name. With…

A collection of recently published patents and a new hire at Apple suggest that future iPhones may carry built-in features to replace your credit cards.

Apple recently…

A pair of software updates from Apple have patched the rather dangerous security hole that allowed any website to run arbitrary code on the iPhone and iPad. The hole was…

Gadget lovers have long held to the secret belief that the right camera, smartphone or large-aperture lens will make them sexier.

Now dating site OK Cupid has…

Oh man. If the LiveRider is anywhere near as good as it looks, then it’s going to sell roughly one zillion units. It’s a hardware/software combo…

Tapbots has come up with an ingenious workaround to get Pastebot, its excellent iOS clipboard manager, to run in the background. From there it will remember what…

A full carrier-unlock is now available for the iPhone 4. The whole process, from virgin iPhone 4 to jailbroken, carrier-independent iPhone takes seconds. Even a video showing how to do the whole…

Android is now the fastest-growing smartphone OS in both overall share and sales of new devices — and for the first time, people in the U.S. bought more…

360 Panorama is a new kind of pano-shooting app for the iPhone. Instead of taking many pictures and then stitching them together afterwards, like every…

You will not be surprised that the porn industry is all over the iPhone 4 like a bad case of the clap. The latest business opportunity is, almost inevitably, FaceTime,…

Somebody needs to make an iPhone game-pad already. The iPhone is great for games and all, but for old-school platformers and beat-’em-ups like Streetfighter IV, nothing beats having some…

Just days after updating the hardware Kindle with a smaller, cheaper model, Amazon has updated the Kindle app for iOS devices and it remains the same…

An Android app that offers free wallpapers is allegedly gathering data about its users, including their phone numbers, carrier subscriber identifiers, and phone number of…

Some Apple 3G phone owners who upgraded to the new iOS4 operating system are facing buyer’s remorse. The upgrade has left their devices slow…