Filed under: Handsets, ATT, Apple Yeah, we’re pretty much all peeved by Apple suddenly ejecting all traces of Google Voice from the app store, but now it looks to have drawn the ire of the Federal Communications Commission, as well. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, the agency has sent out three letters, one each to Apple, AT&T, and Google.

NewsGator, the company behind the popular FeedDemon and NetNewsWire feed readers, just announced that it will shut down the NewsGator Online Reader on August 31, 2009. The company will provide users with instructions on how to migrate to Google Reader

Apple has finally released MobileMe iDisk app for iPhone which was unveiled at Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in early June. The iDisk will allow MobileMe subscribers to easily browse and view files stored on their iDisk and share files with others via integrated e-mail links rather than sending huge file attachment.

Twitter just announced its new home page redesign complete with trending topics and search. Publicly launched at the 2006 South by South

The dazzling new trend of “augmented reality” mobile applications, software that puts layers of information on top of a mobile device’s camera viewer, is something that’s left iPhone owners feeling out of luck. Now one company developing such an app says Apple has said the technology required will be officially enabled in the next version of the iPhone OS - which is expected out in September

As we’ve reported, Apple sold 5.2 million iPhones last quarter. Yeah, Cupertino sure doesn’t seem to think much of the recession. Oh, and to top it off, they sold 10.2 million iPods

In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we analyze why Amazon spent nearly a billion dollars to purchase online shoe shop Zappos, explain why IBM is an early leader in the Internet of Things, investigate whether the Google Chrome OS will finally deliver us the mythical GDrive, look at why Barnes & Noble is a worthy challenger to Amazon’s eBook empire, and more.

During the third quarter 2009 earnings conference call, Apple’s Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook had mentioned: “We’re seeing growing interest with the release of iPhone 3.0 and the iPhone 3GS due in part to the new hardware encryption and improved security policies.” But according iPhone hacking expert, Jonathan Zdziarski the new iPhone 3GS hardware encryption feature is “broken” when it comes to protecting sensitive information. Jonathan “NerveGas” Zdziarski had released a hack that made dual-booting possible even on the iPhone (running on older firmware) and has been credited for the iPhone hack which gives you the ability to tether the iPhone to use its EDGE network from your laptop to surf the internet

Filed under: Handsets, ATT, Apple It may not be all that shocking from a common sense point of view, but AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson’s statement that “there will be a day when you are not exclusive with the iPhone” is still quite a departure from anything he’s said in the past and, given the stakes involved, pretty darn notable. That word came at Fortune’s now happening Brainstorm: Tech conference, where Stephenson unsurprisingly didn’t elaborate on any negotiations with Apple, and only went so far as to say that he thinks AT&T’s partnership with Apple “works really, really well — maybe as well as any strategic partnership we have.” Of course, none of that means exclusivity is going away anytime soon, and you can pretty safely bet that AT&T will keep on pushing as long as it can.

One of the known issues with the jailbroken iPhone running iPhone OS 3.0 is that it disables the Push Notification feature. The iPhone Dev Team had released a fix to resolve the issue. However, German developer and founder of Equinux has discovered a major flaw with the Push Notification fix.