whether it is a cell phone, a car, a stone floor or a wood board;
which could be something for sale on site. The branches that are less than five inches in diameter are cut away to prevent eventual rotting,
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#The 100+State Parks facing closure â#Is your favorite park on the list? The United states is home to 6,
Oracle State Park San rafael State Natural Area (never was opened) Momolovi Ruins State Park temporarily saved!
but the properties themselves have remained open for public use,#notes Kim Hatcher, Georgia State Parks & Historic Sites Public Affairs Coordinator.
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#Top 10 Photos of the Week With lips like cherries and a tongue like strawberries, she has all the makings of a total fruit cake
but sometimes it nice to know whats in the pipeline...Run for your life!!!Deep down, were convinced all there is a sport that we can excel at...
Were living with the legacy of the past#the inappropriate use of antibiotics through buying them on the internet
but it wasnt until he hit upon the idea to acquire the 1-800-FLOWERS phone number in 1986 that business really bloomed.
The company was the first to put an 800-telephone number in its name, and Mccanns marketing idea paid off.
seizing the Internet opportunity as early as 1991. In 1999,1-800-FLOWERS went public and added the dot-com to its name.
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#Ultrasonic French fries Do french fries actually taste better with ultrasonic waves? Love french fry? You aint tasted nothin yet!
and then briefly blanches them in oil at 340 degrees Fahrenheit to tighten their network of interlaced starch molecules.
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The tablets, which were sealed so well that they miraculously survived being under water for more than two millennia,
and pestle#we could still see the fibres in the tablets. They also contained clay
who oversees the World health organizations Global Network Of age-Friendly Cities. They need to live in an environment that allows them to participate.#
for example, and use the credit she earns to get computer help from another volunteer. Aging expert Andrew Scharlach of the University of California, Berkeley, sees a common thread in these changes and the work of other cities.
But some communities are building age-friendly changes into planned upgrades or maintenance such as New yorks street crossings,
At one site under construction, changes include a ramp entrance, safer sidewalk to the bus stop and more time for pedestrians to cross the street.
a network of 20-and 30-somethings interested in shaping the city theyll age in by raising senior issues in varying professions.
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#Top 10 brands that will disappear in 2012 Sears is one of the brands expected to disappear within the next 18 months.
The list includes Sears, Sony Pictures, American Apparel, Nokia, Saab, A&w All-American Foods Restaurants, Soap opera Digest, Sony Ericsson, Myspace,
In late May, AT&T (T: 31.17,0. 06,0. 19%)and Deutche Telekom announced that AT&T would buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion.
The deal would add 34 million customers to the company and create the countrys largest wireless operator.
In April of this year, Dish Network acquired the company for $320 million. Car rental chain Dollar Thrifty is still entertaining buyout offers from Avis and Hertz.
which has nothing to do with its core businesses of consumer electronics and gaming. Sony bought what was Columbia Tri-star Picture in 1989 for $3. 4 billion.
Sonys gaming system group is under siege by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Nintendo. Its consumer electronics group faces an overwhelming challenge from Apple.
The companys future prospects have been damaged further by the Japan earthquake and the hack of its large Playstation Network.
CEO Howard Stringer is under pressure to do something to increase the value of Sonys shares.
and shuttering Sears. 6. Sony Ericssonsony Ericsson was formed by the two large consumer electronics companies to market the handset offerings each had handled separately.
The venture started in 2001, before the rise of the smartphone. Early in its history, it was one of the biggest handset manufacturers along with Nokia (NYSE:
NOK), Samsung, LG, and Motorola. Sales of Sony Ericsson phones were helped originally by the popularity of other Sony portable devices like the Walkman.
Sony Ericssons product development lagged behind those of companies like Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Research in motion (NASDAQ:
RIMM) which dominated the high end smartphone industry early. Sony Ericsson also relied on the Symbian operating system
which was championed by market leader Nokia, but which it has abandoned in favor of Microsofts (NASDAQ:
MSFT) Windows mobile operating because of licence costs and difficulty with programmers. In a period when smartphone sales worldwide are rising in the double digits and sales of the iphone double year over year,
Sony Ericssons unit sales dropped from 97 million in 2008 to 43 million last year.
New competitors like HTC now outsell Sony Ericsson by widening numbers. Sony Ericsson management expects several more quarters of falling sales
and the company has laid off thousands of people. There have been backed rumors by logic, that Sony will take over the operation, rebrand the handsets with its name,
and market them in tandem with its PS3 consoles and VAIO PCS. 7. Kelloggs Corn Pops The cereal business is not
which was considered inexpensive at the time based on the web propertys size. Myspace held the top spot among social networks based on visitors from mid-2006 until mid-2008 according to several online research services.
YHOO) as the largest website for display advertising based on revenue. News corp was able to get an exclusive advertising deal worth $900 million shortly after it bought the property,
Rumors surfaced recently that a buyer may take the website for $100 million. The brand is worth little if anything.
Some of the shows even have their own fan sites. News about the industry, in other words, is distributed now and not longer in one place.
Nokia Nokia is dead. Shareholders are just waiting for an undertaker. The worlds largest handset company has one asset.
Nokia sold 25%of the global total of 428 million units sold in the first quarter.
%The arguments that Nokia will not stay independent are numerous. It has a very modest presence in the rapidly growing smartphone industry
which is dominated by Apple, Research in motions Blackberry, HTC, and Samsung. Nokia runs the outdated Symbian operating system
and is in the process of changing to Microsoft Window mobile OS which has a tiny share of the market.
Nokia would be an attractive takeover target to a large extent because the cost to buy#25%of the global handset market would only be $22 billion based on Nokias current market cap.
Obviously, a buyer would need to pay a premium but even $30 billion is within reach of several companies.
Potential buyers would start with HTC, the fourth largest smartphone maker in the world. Its sales have doubled in both the last quarter and the last year.
HTC will sell as many as 80 million handsets in 2011. The Taiwan-based companys challenge would be
Microsoft, which is Nokias primary software partner, could easily buy the company and is mentioned often as a suitor.
The worlds largest software company recently moved further into the telecom industry though its purchase of Voip giant Skype
Two other large firms have many reasons to buy Nokia. Samsung, part of one of the largest conglomerates in Korea, has publicly set a goal to be the No. 1 handset company in the world by 2014.
A buyout of Nokia would launch Samsung into the position as the worlds handset leader.
LG Electronics, the 7th largest company in South korea, with sales of $48 billion, is by most measures the third largest smartphone company.
It has the scale and balance sheet to takeover Nokia. The only question about the Finland-based company is
whether a buyer would maintain the Microsoft relationship or change to the popular Android OS to power Nokia phones.
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#Glass of milk can contain a cocktail of up to 20 chemicals Scientists found a host of chemicals used to treat illnesses in animals and people in samples of cow, goat and human breast milk.
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#Growing fake meat in a lab could cut greenhouse emissions by 96%according to scientists Researchers hope to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by producing fake meat in a lab. Scientists from Oxford university have decided to concentrate their efforts on culturing
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#Swedenâ##s hotel of treehouses Tree Hotel in Sweden Swedens unusual Tree Hotel does standardized away with rooms
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#Top 5 man killers in the U s. Heart disease is the number one killer of men. Jeff Hale had closed just a $1. 5 million deal on a a sunny September day in the Pacific Northwest.
and a 53 percent likelihood they talk on the phone while driving. Theres a 4 percent chance they run red lights#n purpose#nd a 2 percent chance they have driven after drinking too much.
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#Small habits slowly pack on the pounds over the years: Study Watching TV, eating potato chips, having a sugary soda are a few bad habits that slowly pack in the pounds.
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#FDA unveils graphic warning labels for all cigarette packs One of the graphic warning labels to appear in cigarette packs.
In addition to the images, the label on packs of cigarettes will include a phone number#1-800-QUIT-NOW#so smokers will know where to go for help quitting.
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#Top 10 best cities to raise your family WASHINGTON DC tops the list of the best city for families.
Google, and Facebook all have offices. With an abundance of pediatricians, 27,000 acres of parkland,
Add in strong schools and a thriving job market, and growing up in Omaha becomes an enviable proposition. 9. Seattle,
KY Site of the Kentucky derby, the famous thoroughbred horse race, Louisville offers both pasture-rich grasslands and Midwestern city culture.
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#Magic mushrooms could have medical benefits, researchers say Magic Mushrooms can induce transcendental states. The hallucinogen in magic mushrooms may no longer just be for hippies seeking a trippy high.
but more efficient#as we see today with computer processors. Robert Foley, a Cambridge university professor of human evolution, said:
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#Top 10 Most Expensive Cities in the World 2011 Most expensive city in the world#Toyko.
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#Leafsnap â#New App Recognizes Trees Leafsnap mobile app did wondered you ever what type of tree was nearby
but didnt have a way to identify it? A new smartphone app allows users with no formal training to satisfy their curiosity
and contribute to science at the same time. Scientists have developed the first mobile app to identify plants by simply photographing a leaf.
The free iphone and ipad app, called Leafsnap, instantly searches a growing library of leaf images amassed by the Smithsonian Institution.
In seconds, it returns a likely species name, high-resolution photographs and information on the trees flowers, fruit, seeds and bark.
and share their findings with the apps growing database to help map the population of trees one mobile phone at a time.
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#Steve jobs Reveals Plans for the New Hi-tech Apple Headquarters Apples new high-tech headquarters. Steve jobs, Apple CEO, made an unannounced visit to the June 7 City council meeting in Cupertino, home of the computer giant,
to reveal plans for a new, state-of-the-art Apple headquarters, reports the Cupertino Courier. Video and pics) The stunning design resembles a spaceship;#
who also made a rare appearance earlier in the week at the Worldwide Developers Conference.
and Wolfe Road currently home to Hewlett-packard, which will be relocating next year. The circular building will be an architectural feat
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#Random USDA Testing Finds 34 Unapproved Pesticides on Cilantro Cilantro tastes so good but may have a plethora of pesticides on it.
It sold for $480 on ebay last month after 31 bids. At the Boise salon, Ambroz has stowed away enough feathers to last about six months.
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#Smoking Death Toll Could Reach 8 Million a Year by 2030 Tobacco will kill 6 million people this year.
the World Lung Foundation (WLF) campaign group launched a website of graphic and gruesome images of the health effects of smoking that health officials can download for use as warnings on tobacco packaging.
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#Donkeyâ##s Milk Helps You Lose weight: Study Study shows drinking donkeys milk is good for you. Cleopatra would bathe in it as part of her beauty regime.
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#Inventing the Rocking chair Tree Futurist Thomas Frey: On Tuesday evening we had packed a audience at the Davinci Institute to discuss the future of micro farming.
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#â Wave and Payâ##Mobile phone Payment System Launched in the UK Samsungs new phone is the first to use Barclaycard and Oranges Quick Tap payment technology.
Orange and Samsung have teamed-up with Barclaycard to provide mobile phone payments with the new Quick Tap#payment technology.
Courtesy of Barclaycard, Orange and Samsung, consumers across the UK can now pay for goods and services with nothing more than a mobile phone.
Yougov research, commissioned by digital payments provider Intelligent Environments, says 42 per cent of smartphone users want to use their phones as mobile wallets.
Owners of the Apple iphone are keenest, but significant proportions of Blackberry and Google phone users want to take advantage of it too.
Thats not because technology built into mobile phones is the way that everything from cameras to translators, seems to be going.
Its down to the fact that this new mobile-based method is quick, simpler and crucially,
With a mobile phones data connection, however, all transactions can be authorised and completed instantly. In due course, transactions over £15 will be permitted
if a pin is entered on the mobile phone. That, too, is more secure than the traditional keypad.
however, is that for now only one phone, one payment provider and one network operator provides this whizzy technology.
So yesterday was a milestone but not a tipping point: Orange customers, with a Barclaycard who took the trouble to buy a specially made Samsung Tocco handset can take advantage of the new systems.
Even though the near-field communications technology is built into a wide and growing number of phones already,
Using an app on the mobile phone, customers can top up their wave and pay account from a connected credit
The app allows a constant, running check on transactions and provides a real, useful and sometimes painful tally of expenditure.
even if rumours that NFC payments are to be built into the forthcoming iphone turn out to be untrue,
Google is working with Mastercard and a host of other manufacturers have similar plans. Indeed, as with almost all significant new technology, the appeal is mainly in the simplicity of NFC.
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#New Mineral Discovered: One of Earliest Minerals Formed in Solar system Got Krotite? In the May-June issue of the journal American Mineralogist, a team of scientists announced the discovery of the new mineral krotite,
. and other major corn syrup processors as well as the Corn Refiners Association.##So, is it fair to call HFCS sugar?
and manage activities as an adjunct to their core mission, like shopping centers hiring entertainment to drive traffic on weekends,
and organizational dynamics, each event will involve a communication structure that ties directly into the groups core user community.
designed around an artists ability to mesh mechanical movement with the power of the wind in a grace and beauty that captures the mind.
If you add live webcams to the mix, the Walls of Life#will instantly become an international focal point for the city.
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#How Goldman sachs Created the Food crisis The word again today IS GREED. Frederick Kaufmans piece for Foreign policy examines how the Goldman sachs Commodity Index (GSCI) is responsible for the increase in food prices.
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including television and print ads, Web sites, online games that act as camouflaged advertisements, social media, product placements in movies, the use of movie characters in cross-promotions and fast-food childrens meals.
a group that focuses on Internet marketing to children, said the F. T. C. proposal had broader implications.
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#FDA to Regulate Electronic Cigarettes as Tobacco A woman smoking an electronic cigarette. On Monday, the U s. government said it plans to regulate electronic cigarettes as tobacco products.
giving Sottera Inc the ability to start importing its NJOY goods. The FDA said in a notice posted on its website that it is working on a strategy to regulate products such as electronic cigarettes,
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#Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Apple in US Over Location Tracking Issue Apple has been tracking your moves
Bloomberg was first to report today that two ipad/iphone users have filed a class action lawsuit accusing Apple of invasion of privacy and computer fraud,
and of secretly recording movements of iphone and ipad users.##Vikram Ajjampur, an iphone user in Florida,
and William Devito, a New york ipad customer, sued April 22 in federal court in Tampa, Florida, seeking a judges order barring the alleged data collection.
The complaint cited a report last week by two computer programmers claiming that Apples ios4 operating system is logging latitude-longitude coordinates
along with the time a spot is visited#The programmers said Apple devices are collecting about a years worth of location data.
Apple hasnt commented on the matter since the April 20 report was released. The case is Ajjampur v. Apple Inc.
According to Karen Batra of the Biotechnology industry Organization Oregon-based ag journal Capitol Press, Under the agencys new two-year pilot project, biotech developers would conduct their own environmental assessment of transgenic crops
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#The Grand Experiment â#Micro Agronomy Futurist Thomas Frey: On Sunday, April 17th I had the privilege of being the opening speaker at the TEDX event at the University of Chicago.
Micro agronomy is based on the notion that a decentralized food growers network will lead to greater biodiversity,
Step 1#Building the Community Todays web-based communication systems give us unusual abilities to pair
They will all eventually come to pass because of the consistent level of intellectual bandwidth being dedicated to keeping the visions alive.
but may also include more viral components like Youtube videos, blogs, mobile apps, and social media.
By monitoring keyword usage through Google searches and with other tools, we can evaluate both short term and long term effects.
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#Smell Like A Nerd: RPG Performance Perfumes Dont you wish you could smell like me?
#iphone Secretly Tracks Everywhere You Go The map shows location data collected from an iphone that had been used in England.
Apples iphone keeps track of where you go, security researchers have discovered. It also saves every detail of it to a secret file on the device
which is copied then to the owners computer when the two are synchronised. The file contains the latitude
and longitude of the phones recorded coordinates along with a timestamp, meaning that anyone who stole the phone
or the computer could discover details about the owners movements using a simple program. For some phones
there could be almost a years worth of data stored, as the recording of data seems to have started with Apples ios 4 update to the phones operating system,
released in June 2010. Apple has made it possible for almost anybody#a jealous spouse, a private detective#with access to your phone or computer to get detailed information about where youve been said
Pete Warden, one of the researchers. Only the iphone records the users location in this way,
say Warden and Alasdair Allan, the data scientists who discovered the file and are presenting their findings at the Where 2. 0 conference in San francisco on Wednesday.
Alasdair has looked for similar tracking code in Google's Android phones and couldnt find any,#
We havent come across any instances of other phone manufacturers doing this.##Simon Davies, director of the pressure group Privacy International, said:
The fact that the file is transferred across to a new iphone or ipad when you migrate is evidence that the data-gathering isnt accidental.#
#But they said it does not seem to be transmitted to Apple itself. Although mobile networks already record phones locations, it is only available to the police
and other recognised organisations following a court order under the Regulation of Investigatory Power Act. Standard phones do not record location data.
MPS in 2009 criticised the search engine giant Google for its Latitude#system, which allowed people to enable their mobile to give out details of their location to trusted contacts.
At the time MPS said that Latitude could substantially endanger user privacy, #but Google pointed out that users had to specifically choose to make their data available.
The iphone system by contrast, appears to record the data whether or not the user agrees.
Apple declined to comment on why the file is created or whether it can be disabled. Warden and Allan have set up a web page
which answers questions about the file, and created a simple downloadable application to let Apple users check for themselves what location data the phone is retaining.
The Guardian has confirmed that 3g-enabled devices including the ipad also retain the data and copy it to the owners computer.
If someone were to steal an iphone and jailbreak#it giving them direct access to the files it contains,
they could extract the location database directly. Alternatively, anyone with direct access to a users computer could run the application
and see a visualisation of their movements. Encrypting data on the computer is one way to protect against it,
though that still leaves the file on the phone. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at the security company Sophos, said:
If the data isnt required for anything, then it shouldnt store the location. And it doesnt need to keep an archive on your machine of where youve been.#
#He suggested that Apple might be hoping that it would yield data for future mobile advertising targeted by location,
They have blogged about their discovery at OREILLYS Radar site, noting that why this data is stored
They are developing a Data science Toolkit for dealing with location data. Davies said that the discovery of the file indicated that Apple had failed to take users privacy seriously.
near the end of the 15,200-word terms and conditions for its itunes program, used to synchronise with iphones,
ipods and ipads, is an 86-word paragraph about location-based services#.#It says that Apple
including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device. This location data is collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you
the so-called core index rose 0. 1 percent and it is up only 1. 2 percent in the past year.
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#An Apple a Day Really Does Keep the Doctor Away An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
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#Taste and Health Benefits of Organic food Are All in the Mind Study finds organic food is considered healthier and tastier even when its not.
what they thought were conventionally and organically produced chocolate sandwich cookies, plain yogurt, and potato crisps.
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#iphone Jailbreaking Has Become a Lucrative Business iphone jailbreaking has evolved now into a lucrative industry with millions of consumers.
George Mason University senior, Kevin Lee, says he earns about $50, 000 a year with an illicit-sounding pitch on Craigslist:
Get Your iphone Jailbroken Today.##Within minutes, the computer science major can download code onto his customers iphones
and fling open the portal to an alternative world of apps and software that Apple condemns.
The jailbreak perks include: tethering the iphones Internet connection to a laptop or ipad without paying extra AT&T charges;
swapping out the AT&T or Verizon service for a cheaper carrier; or, customizing the iphone with 3-D screens, bouncing icons or funkier fonts.
An early form of jailbreaking started shortly after Apple unveiled the iphone in 2007, but the practice has evolved now into a lucrative industry with millions of consumers.
Quashing many doubts about jailbreakings legality, the Library of Congress ruled in July that the practice did not violate Apples copyright.
To be honest, when I first started, I did it for my friends, myself, but it has snowballed from there,
#said Lee, who jailbreaks iphones to enable new screen designs, then unlocks#them so customers can switch wireless carriers.
I was getting five to 10 customers a week now its 30 to 40. I just had one customer from the Mongolian embassy who was moving to the capital of mongolia,
and he wanted to use the iphone there.##The primary jailbreak apps store, Cydia#named after the insect that bores into apple trees#now earns about $10 million in annual revenue and counts about 4. 5 million active weekly users hunting
for apps. Its dominance in the jailbreak world has grown so much that last year, when a rival store began eating into its market share,
Cydia simply merged with the competitor, unleashing howls about a monopoly. Some developers, meanwhile, are raking in tens of thousands of dollars in sales off their apps, technically called packages,#themes#or tweaks#in jailbreak parlance.
In what might be the ultimate sign that the jailbreak industry is losing its anti-establishment character
Toyota recently offered a free program on Cydias store, promoting the companys Scion sedan. Once installed, the car is displayed on the background of the iphone home screen,
and the iphone icons are refashioned to look like the emblem on the front grill. Toyota was also the first major corporation to offer an ad to the jailbreaking site, www. modmyi. com,
whose traffic and revenue have doubled since 2010. Weve seen expansion across the board. The Toyota ad and theme, to me, meant there was a turning of the tides
and that jailbreaking is becoming more mainstream,##said Kyle Matthews, the co-owner of Modmyi. com. The industry just keeps increasing;
#Apple and AT&T have been trying to crack down on the booming black market. Matthews said Apple pressed Toyota to remove the theme and the ad this past week,
In the past, Apple has said jailbreaking the iphone or ipad might void the devices warranty. Two years ago, Apple argued to the Library of Congress,
which oversees copyright, that the unauthorized modifications#constituted a violation, and that the company incurs very substantial expenses#investigating customer complaints about jailbroken iphones that dont work.
Mark Siegel, an AT&T spokesman said the company can detect which customers are tethering their iphones to other devices using an unauthorized hack;
those customers, he said, are sent polite#letters laying out three options: they can pay AT&T $20 a month on top of the data plan costs;
stop the unapproved tethering altogether; or ignore AT&T but get automatically enrolled and billed anyway.
Siegel declined to say how much revenue is lost from the tethering tools, saying only that a small number of customers do it.
He also declined to discuss whether or how AT&T challenges the creators of the hacks.
Because of its technology, AT&T is more vulnerable than Verizon to unlocking, programmers say. At the top of the jailbreaking hierarchy sits Jay Freeman, 29, the founder and operator of Cydia, the biggest unofficial iphone app store,
which offers about 700 paid designs and other modifications out of about 30, 000 others that are free.
Based out of an office near Santa barbara, Calif, . Freeman said Cydia, launched in 2008, now earns about $250,
000 after taxes in profit annually. He just hired his first full-time employee from Delicious, the Yahoo-owned bookmarking site,
to improve Cydias design. The whole point is to fight against the corporate overlord, #Freeman said.
#Not everyone is as open as Freeman about their contributions to this black market apps store.
Some jailbreakers and developers declined speak publicly. And the Craigslist ad and e-mail address posted by Lee,
the George Mason senior, is no longer online. After an initial interview with The Washington post, he declined further comment through an assistant.
Many of the programs offered by these developers are unavailable at the Apple app store, and some of the most popular items are not inexpensive:
The $10 Wi-fi Sync app lets you wirelessly sync your iphone to itunes without needing a USB cord.
For $2. 19, Adblocker lets you surf the Apple Safari browser without ads, potentially reducing data usage and speeding up page loads.
And the $2 Elert app allows users to keep playing Doodlejump, for instance, without having to leave the game to see incoming e-mails.
Freeman says he takes 30 percent from developers that list programs on his store. He spends most of that money on Paypal transaction fees and server costs.
Freeman himself has had to fend off accusations that he has been playing overlord in the underworld. A new jailbreak store called Themeit opened in January
but only after its owner, a French Web consultant executive, refused to give in to Freemans requests that it not launch.
Once he heard about Themeit, he wrote me super long e-mail telling me not to do it,
that it was going to break up the jailbreak community, #said Gabriel Faucon, Themeits owner. Theres a lot of money involved,
#Last year, Freeman was more successful in gobbling up an even bigger rival, Rock Your Phone,
whose owner Mario Ciabarra, runs a jailbreak app design firm. The terms: Freeman has to promote the apps Ciabarras company creates on Cydias home page;
and, instead of the usual 70-30 revenue split, Ciabarras business gets to keep virtually all of the sales, according to Freeman.
and I wanted to focus on developing#apps. Ciabarra has created some of the more popular#and pricey#jailbreak apps,
which have been downloaded on more than 5 million devices in more than 150 countries, he said. His $20 Mywi app hooks up your iphones Internet connection to your ipad or laptop
but he says he does not endorse using the program to avoid monthly charges. Ciabarra said AT&T
or Apple have contacted never him or his company, Intelliborn. We have spent a good amount of legal research making sure were not in the wrong,
and dont have to turn your phone on and off to get online.##While many are raking it in from their black market apps,
others are still making smaller but respectable incomes. Rob Grohman, an IT technician from Mechanicsburg, Pa.
000 in the past two years off of his handful of paid themes that redesign a users iphone screens.
000 a year repairing computers at a health insurance company. I made more money off of themes than my day job,
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