Apple CEO Steve Jobs is the third most popular celebrity whose home is “stalked” by UK users with Google Street view. From across the pond, there are just two other places that nosy Nellies want to take an up-close look at more than Jobs’ house:  the White House and Hugh Hefner’s Playboy mansion in Los

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It’s always been a bit of a pain to integrate our beloved Gmail and Google Calendar with our Apple devices. Syncing Google Calendar requires setting up an Exchange account–an extra hoop that makes Google syncing a lot less effortless than something like MobileMe. Thankfully, Google has given all of us loyal users a handy solution–Push notifications for their own mobile app! Google’s Mobile App has always been a nice way to check Gmail and Google Calendar. It’s well designed and has voice search. But, it never felt all that integrated with our iPhones, since it lacked a notification system. Hopefully Google’s newest update, which adds push notifications, will make the app feel a little more native. Get it here ! Via Gizmodo   Follow this article’s author, Ambika Subramony, on Twitter .    

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Do you remember how exciting the notion of Google Voice on the iPhone was? No, not the consolation-prize web app version of Google Voice available to us now , but Google Voice on the hoof, one tap away from use on your Apple-branded device. Sadly, the dream of a native iPhone app for the service has never materialized, leaving Google Voice users without the on-device support or features that the excellent service warrants. How did it all go wrong? Google and Apple used to be so good together. We always thought they’d be the couple to make it out alive. Le Sigh. A few days past the one-year anniversary of the FCC’s probe into why Apple refused the entry of Google Voice into the iTunes App Store, the ever-insightful writers over at TechCrunch have put together an interesting feature on the drama surrounding Apple’s decision to disallow the App’s acceptance and the road that led up to such a depressing decree to be issued in the first place. The feature is well worth the five minutes of your time that it’ll take you to ingest it, and as a byproduct, will make you sound like an uber-geek should you bring it up in conversation with your less tech-savvy hipster friends.

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There were light fingers this week; there was at least one snowy white iPhone 4 in the Great White North; there were apps galore; emails from Steve; more incredible impossible hard-to-credit stuff from Piper Jaffray, which seems to specialize in pixie dust and random guessing; and there was Google and Verizon, trying to make us hate them more than we hate AT&T. Oh yeah, there was also Mac|Life, where all of this makes sense. Features: – The Google / Verizon Net Neutrality Pact – 10 Years in the Future – We’re big fans of an open Internet and the freeflow of information and entertainment. There are parties, media conglorporations mostly, who aren’t quite so thrilled and who would like to see limitations on the other guy’s traffic and a zippier download time for their content. We peered into our crystal ball to see what the Intertubez might — just might — look like circa 2020 if Google and Verizon get their way. – 10 Useful Resources for Every iOS Developer – While it’s getting easier and easier for developers to put together iOS apps, it’s still a wild world of unfamiliar, complex coding that might be holding back the next great iteration of mobile awesome sauce. Luckily, there are sources out there that can make getting your name in lights in the App Store a relative breeze, and you know our picks are winners — we make apps ourselves after all.

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In Case You Missed It: Aug. 15 – Aug 21

The Apple Store is down again. And we are, once again, glued to our monitors, constantly refreshing the display. Is the Apple Store nothing but a giant, international Skinner Box ? Maybe store outages have nothing to do with WebObjects and everything to do with operant conditioning ? What do you think? Is Apple trying to take over your mind? Is this a grand evil conspiracy? Let us know in the comments.

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The store is down… and back up

How do you say “completely unsurprised” auf Deutsch[1]? Berlin-based blog BZiPhone reports that the German-made eiPott has been delivered the death blow, courtesy of Apple Germany ( translation ). The computer and phone maker has gotten a restraining order against the Erbach-based koziol , maker of cute housewares for the stylish home. The lawsuit, which was presented in what Google Language assures me is the “Hanseatic Higher Regional Court,” means that koziol will no longer be able to use the eiPott name to sell their plastic egg holder . Apparently the item could have been confused with another product. Shocking. The iPod-inspired package will also need to be redesigned. Continue reading No Comment: Apple Germany says nein to eiPott No Comment: Apple Germany says nein to eiPott originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . No Comment: Apple Germany says nein to eiPott originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Research in Motion reportedly is shopping for a mobile ad platform to help the BlackBerry maker better compete with Apple’s iAds and Google’s AdMob. The only hitch: the company that tops RIM’s list of candidates — Millennial Media — just isn’t that interested in being acquired. Millennial Media CEO Paul Palmieri told the Wall Street

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    Editor’s Note: After reading the Google/Verizon Net Neutrality Proposal, we wondered just what would happen if it was actually adopted by the FCC. Below is our best guess. A correspondence from the future.  Are you old enough to remember the Internet as it was first imagined? A place of free expression, shared information, and equality of access? If you answered no, then you don’t know what you missed. Up until a little over ten-years ago, paying for internet access meant that you’d get access to, well, the internet. Sure, there were different speeds and data caps to consider, but the information flowed. Americans had such unabated access to information, online gaming, and other media through wired and wireless sources that newspaper empires, television networks and other giants of the media industry shuddered in the presence of the World Wide Web.  If you’re old enough to remember that freewheeling time of torrents , WikiLeaks , Hulu and The Pirate Bay , you’ll likely recall hearing something about a deal that caused a media murmur in the spring of 2010: Google and Verizon’s announcement of a suggested course of action to ensure net neutrality. For those too young, or now too senile to recall, Google and Verizon announced that in light of the U.S. government’s failures to legislate regulations to ensure net neutrality across the nation, they’d come up with a few points that they were sure would do the job nicely. Google’s Eric Schmidt and Ivan Seidenberg of Verizon told Americans that they believed–and these are the broad strokes–that everyone in the country should have access to broadband Internet. Schmidt and Seidenberg also stipulated that they felt broadband network technology should be leveraged in order to improve the country’s power management systems and innovate the way that the nation’s healthcare and educational infrastructures are operated. Like true corporate citizens, their suggestions were framed with protectionism

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The Google / Verizon Net Neutrality Pact – 10 Years in the Future

We’re pretty certain this week you rushed to iTunes to download the security-patch-update-only for iOS 4, you know, the one that renders jailbreak.me unworkable. Sure you did. Since Mobile Safari handles PDF files so wonderfully in the first place (cough cough, GoodReader), you open them up all the time and needed to be safe against bad script action. Right? Right? Are those crickets or did someone switch our ringtone again? Features: – 25 Awesome Safari Extensions – We must admit: we have loved Firefox since the days even before it was called Mozilla. Everything about it was better than Internet Explorer from the get-go. By the time Safari showed up, we were pretty locked in with our extensions on Firefox, and Safari’s lack was a dealbreaker. Well, Apple noticed this and finally came around to the idea of extensions. Like everyone else’s user-created content, 25% is garbage, 50% duplicate ideas, and 25% are sheer genius. Care to guess which ones we highlighted

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In Case You Missed It: Aug.8 – Aug. 14

Google’s Android has topped Apple’s iOS in worldwide smartphone operating system sales during the fiscal second quarter, analysts announced Thursday. The lapping of the iPhone maker came as smartphones saw a 50 percent jump in second-quarter sales. Android jumped to 17.2 percent of the worldwide smartphone operating system market, selling 10.6 million units, up from

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