Apple pulls adult-content app from App Store, anyone surprised? Updated

And just like that, the iPhone App Store is once again safe for children, people at work, and those who enjoy the iron fist of an anonymous application reviewer gently controlling their hardware / software ecosystem. Yep, the “Hottest Girls” application has been yanked after just a few hours of availability, and it’s no secret why: although the app was clearly labeled and approved under iPhone OS 3.0’s app rating and parental control guidelines, naked-ladies-on-the-iPhone was quickly becoming too much news for Apple’s squeaky-clean image to bear. Read the full story

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Many of you guys are having problems during installation of installous. Although hackulo.us Repository is overloaded and causing errors, cydia is having problems also in iPhone OS 3.0.  If you are receiving errors like below

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Is it simple? Yes. Risky? A bit. Legal? We’ll leave that to the lawyers ’cause we know that you’re aching to give tethering a spin over your newly downloaded iPhone OS 3.0 update. We’ve seen several guides to enable tethering ever since OS 3.0 was first released into beta (and into the wilds) oh so many days ago. However, these were always carrier/country specific and required a bit more command line tampering than the common man could stomach.

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So now that the iPhone 3.0 launch is in full swing, we’re wondering how it’s going out there. Team Engadget appears to have made it through without any problems, but we’re hearing sporadic reports of Apple’s iTunes activation servers being slammed and potentially

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Back in the stone age — iPhone OS 2.x, that is — men wrestled wild boar to the ground with their bare hands, wore Members Only jackets, and connected to AT&T hotspots using an archaic, ridiculous process involving text messages, websites, and prayer. One previously unpublicized feature of the just-released OS 3.0, though, changes all that: connecting to your rightful WiFi coverage is now a seamless, no-brainer experience, which magically and very suddenly makes AT&T’s hotspots useful.

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You can refresh all you want but that won’t make the 3.0 update for your iPhone appear any faster. In fact, you might want to give your trigger finger a rest for a few hours – Engadget bud, Richard Lai, noted in a tweet that Apple’s Singapore site says that the iPhone OS 3.0 update will release on the 18th while Apple India says the 17th, the date announced by Apple – the difference presumably accounting for the 2.5-hour timezone offset between the two countries.

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