iPhone OS 3.1 has already broughtsome bad news for users who want to jailbreak and unlock their iPhone(at least until the iPhone Hacking community figures out a way to hack it).

There’s more bad news, as iPhone users are also reporting that thetethering and MMS hack don’t work after upgrading to iPhone OS 3.1.

As you might already know, tethering and MMS features are still not available to AT&T’s iPhone customers even though Apple had introduced these features in iPhone OS 3.0 almost three months back.

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AdMob, the mobile advertising startup has released June 2009 Metrics Report, which reveals some interesting details about the hugely successful iPhone App Store.

According to AdMob, iPhone Apps worth $200 million are sold every month or about $2.4 billion a year on the iPhone App Store.

AdMob surveyed more than 1000 of their iPhone, iPod Touch and Android users. Below are some findings from the survey carried out by AdMob and usage behavior found on various iPhone apps and web sites across its ad network.

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John Gruber of Daring Fireball has just come out with his WWDC prediction. He has reiterated what he told us couple of weeks back that Apple’s new iPhone will have a faster processor, more RAM, more storage capacity, video camera.
He also expects Apple to announce the third generation iPhone at WWDC tomorrow.
Meanwhile, folks at NoWhereElse.fr have also posted images that claim to be photos of the next generation iPhone.

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The 10.5.6 update for Mac OS X Leapord that Apple released back in December 2008 prevented Mac from recognizing iPhone in DFU mode, making it impossible to jailbreak and/or unlock it using PwnageTool or QuickPwn.

So if you are worried about the 10.5.7 update for Mac OS X that was released by Apple earlier in the week then the good news is that iPhone Dev Team has tweeted that the update is safe.
We had seen various solutions to re-enable DFU mode. The safest method to put iPhone in DFU mode was to either connect it to a USB Hub connected to your Mac (not directly) or borrow your friends Windows computer.

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Just in case you thought the AppStore development boom was a bust, we think you should check this one out.

Last week, Raven Zachary wrote Turning Ideas into iPhone Applications, a post about the “significant gap between individuals with ideas and those who are actually capable of turning the ideas into iPhone applications.” Read the full story

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Apple released the much awaited iPhone firmware 2.2 update on Thursday night which includes improvements such as such as Google Street View, Podcast over-the-air download and includes fix for the Safari crashes and the iPhone Safari exploit that was reported earlier in the week.

However, there were some features that did not make it to iPhone firmware 2.2’s release notes. Read the full story

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