Steve Jobs: Birthdays, Awards, Contest Calls, Shareholder Meetings, and iPhone 3.1.2

Apple CEO Steve Jobs turned 55 this week according to TUAW, so we’ll start off by wishing him a healthy, happy, peaceful, and prosperous birthday! What do you get the man who gave us the Apple II, Mac, Pixar, iPod, iTunes, Apple Retail, iPhone, and iPad? Well, a couple of awards aren’t a bad place to start…

MWC and Jim Henson Awards

While neither Apple, nor the iPhone were at Mobile World Congress, Macworld reports Steve Jobs still won their award for ..read more

TiPb Gear — Fastmac/UMEE iV Plus TV Remote for iPhone (Macworld 2010)

Live from Macworld 2010, Leanna and Rene talk with Maksim Loffe, co-founder and CEO of UMEE about their TV remote software and FastMac’s remote case for iPhone, the iV Plus.

Watch along after the break!

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Verizon Begins webOS Updates, Too

According to Palm, Verizon customers who own a Pre Plus or Pixi Plus can now update to webOS 1.4. The update is being delivered over the air to handsets.

Mobile Cos., Charities Sets Up Text Donations for Chile

A number of organizations have responded to the recent earthquake in Chile by setting up SMS shortcodes to accept donations. Text Chile to 23583 to donate $10 to Habitat for Humanity, 20222 to donate $10 to World Vision, …(follow link to read)

Video Tour: WebOS 1.4

Phone Scoop takes a hands-on look at the new webOS 1.4 system software for Palm devices, including a tour of the new video shooting software.(follow link to read)

Sprint Pushes webOS 1.4 to Pre and Pixi

Sprint has recently started making webOS 1.4 available to the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi. The updated operating system brings a number of new features to the webOS platform. First and foremost, webOS devices can now capture and edit …(follow link to read)

ngmoco’s We Rule for iPhone hits Canadian App Store

Once again, a new ngmoco’s game has hit the Canadian App Store first — this time it’s kingdom-builder We Rule [Free with in-app purchases - iTunes link]. Hey, there’s no Hulu or Google Voice in Canada, so fair’s fair!

Like all recent ngmoco games, We Rule leverages the social gaming element via their Plus+ network, and has in-app purchases for “Mojo” which basically speed up things like growing crops and building homes, so you can pay if you don’t want to ..read more

Associated Press App Coming to iPad

MacRumors points us towards the Associated Press‘ announcement that they’re setting up a new digital unit to target “next wave of Internet-connected devices such as Apple’s iPad”.

The AP’s iPad app could compete with offerings from some of its member newspapers, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, which also are believed to be mulling whether to sell subscriptions on the iPad to take advantage of its format. [...] The plans reflect the news media’s hope — still ..read more

Student Makes iPod Explode During Class

A high school student had her iPod explode on her desk yesterday and luckily not a single student was injured. This is not the first time we’ve heard of exploding iPods or iPhones but this particular case seems to be a little different so don’t be so quick to blame Apple. Gizmodo points out that another student has told the true story.

“The iPod did not just explode. It was broken so a kid took the entire thing apart and was ..read more

TiPb Give Away: Motorola H17 Bluetooth Headset for a TiPb Facebook fan!

We’re moving TiPb’s Facebook presence from the old group and page to a newer, shiner, and — soon to be — better, unified TiPb Fan Page!

The bad news: since we can’t rename the old iphoneblog.com page or transfer the group to go with new, we have to apologize for asking everyone to move over with us, but we’ll do our best to more than make up for the hassle — that’s a promise!

So, please jump on over and become a ..read more

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