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A few hours after Nullriver, Inc. released their NetShare application onto the iTunes App Store, the $9.99 application which promises to allow you to share your iPhone's network connection with your computer was pulled from the store. The obvious reason for the app being removed would be that perhaps Apple doesn't want you sharing your iPhone's Internet connection, which is kind of stupid considering smartphones from the likes of Nokia have had this feature for AGES! The Nullriver folks have yet to receive any word from Apple either:

A security researcher who was set to speak at the Black Hat hacker convention in Las Vegas next week on a previously undiscovered flaw in Apple's FileVault encryption system has canceled his talk, citing confidentiality agreements with the Cupertino computer maker.

Some early adopters of Apple's second-generation iPhone have witnessed thin cracks appear at the edges of the device that damage the phone's look and threaten to pose a larger threat down the road.

Those tracking the issue in an Apple support discussion thread and elsewhere say the hairline fractures most often appear on the plastic shell near the corners of the device, particularly near the headphone jack, ringer switch, and volume controls.

Apple's recently launched MobileMe service has highlighted some of the problems which have increasingly been associated with web 2.0 applications.

Some iPhone users who signed up for a free trial of the online e-mail, address book and calendar application were given access to the content of other users' accounts. Apple says it has resolved this security flaw, as well as the connectivity and synchronisation problems experienced after the launch of the service.

I waited in line for the iPhone 3G. I had actually bought an iPhone just a few months ago, but wanted to upgrade.

I didn't really know why: I just figured the next version of what Apple was doing could only be cool. I'm a Mac fan.

So the iPhone 3G is out and endless rumours of a new model (if not new features) can be put to bed for now, which means I'm not at all surprised to see the iPod speculation has begun in full force...

A group of hackers on the forum Haklabs have posted a download link for Sega's Super Monkey Ball on the iPhone, claiming they have broken Apple's FairPlay DRM and that the pirated game will run on any iPhone with jailbroken firmware 2.0 using SSH. The main application was patched to exclude the SHA 1 checksum of the game, and the process should work perfectly.

So far posts following the report have been mixed with users commenting that the game does work while others confessing they could not get it to work.

Another company is preparing to sell Intel-based computers that can run Apple's Mac OS X. But unlike a US clone maker that's been sued by Apple, Open Tech won't pre-install the operating system on its machines.

A company spokesman, who said he was a member of Open Tech's legal team, refused to give more than his first name, Tom. "I won't say more because of the ruthless sharks that are swimming around," he said when asked why he wouldn't provide his full name or title.

AppleInsider is reporting whispers that the mothership will move its computer product lines away from Intel-designed chipsets and back to proprietary solutions, like the days of the PPC when Apple deployed custom chipsets specific to the platform and even individual product lines.

A couple weeks ago, I reviewed Apple's Remote app, which lets you use your iPhone or iPod touch as a remote for your Apple TV or for iTunes on a Mac or Windows PC--you get a touchscreen interface for controlling playback that looks nearly identical to the iPhone's iPod mode. By letting you quickly and easily browse through long lists of media--and even search for particular items--Remote provides a near-perfect solution for my biggest beef with the Apple TV: excruciatingly-slow list scrolling.