Here lately, Navigon has been crushing it on the iPhone GPS front. Every couple of weeks, it seems that MobileNavigator is getting yet another fantastic update, all while TomTom’s lackluster offering hangs back in the land of complacency. Thankfully for us all, the outfit has just pushed out the v1.3 update, which adds real-time traffic (an unfortunate $19.99 add-on), Google local search, updated roadways, automatic music fading between text-to-speech instructions and the ability Read the full story

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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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Meebo has released an update for their new iPhone application that fixes a crashing problem experience by some.

Meebo is integrated, all-in-one instant messaging that connects you with your friends everywhere. Meebo has been the leading platform for multi-protocol IM on the web since 2005. With that knowledge and experience, we optimized Meebo on the iPhone for speed, simplicity, and performance.

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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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Cerebro is a location based service for your iPhone which tracks a stolen or lost iPhone. It can also be used by parents to track their kids in a time of distress.

Find your iPhone anywhere in the world.
Cerebro finds your iPhone, as well as where it has been and how high up the culprit is. You can target a thief or just keep an eye your kids.
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Insomnia Pro allows applications to continue to run and WiFi to stay connected long after your iPhone screen has been switched off.

The application runs as a background daemon with a status bar icon and survives reboots and re-springs. This Pro version allows you to set a schedule for when Insomnia will become active.
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