We talk about the FCC a lot here, but usually the ways ye olde Commission affects our lives are indirect. A little extra spectrum here, a nice leaked image there, that kind of thing. Not this time, though, as the FCC is getting involved directly with its own Consumer Broadband Test app, designed to probe network latencies and download speeds on your home connection or mobile device. Part of the hallowed National Broadband Plan, this will furnish the FCC will useful data to show the Read the full story

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Apple has removed over 5000 applications from the App Store while dictating a new set of rules which bans all sexual apps, according to Jon Atherton developer of the popular Wobble application.

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I have spoken with Apple, and the following are the new rules:

1. No images of women in bikinis (Ice skating tights are not OK either)
2. No images of men in bikinis! (I didn’t ask about Ice Skating tights for men)
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Alright, we’ll leave all the zingers for you and our mercurial staff to deliver, and just use this space to dish some info on the hardware. Ivor Kovic, an emergency physician from Croatia, has recently demoed a new iPhone cradle that turns the already multifunctional handset into a CPR assistance device. By using an app titled Pocket CPR and the built-in accelerometer, he can get audio and visual feedback to tell him if he’s doing it correctly, while his basic (but awesome) cradle allows Read the full story

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You don’t need that rumored Toshiba phone that “acts like a secretary,” or even Maggie Gyllenhaal (though that would be nice), to have help when organizing your social life. Siri uses “speech recognition with a brain,” according to its CEO.

To use the iPhone app, you just have to say aloud a command like “Book a table for six at 7pm at McDonalds” (I’m sure you’re classier than that, but let’s stick with it for now), and then using speech-recognition technology and the iPhone’s GPS Read the full story

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If you’ve had it with those motherfucking lame apps on the motherfucking iPhone, don’t instantly write off our neighbor Samuel L Jackson’s app. He’s spent a lot of time in the studio working on original quotes, just for our amusement.

At only $2.99 the 150 quotes and soundbites are hilarious, though we do recommend the +17 Explicit version. After all, where’s the fun in a Clean version of Samuel L?

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Over in Europe, the most downloaded iPhone app is the music-detecting Shazam. In the US, it’s the Facebook app. And those soggy Brits…?

In the UK, the Carling branded iPint has snagged the crown of most downloaded app, according to ComScore’s Alistair Hill’s presentation at the Mobile Games Forum in London. Hic!

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