A forum post on MacRumors explains how to end-run the password on a locked iPhone. It's so easy it hurts: 2.0.2 gives almost full access to the iPhone even while under password protection... Steps...

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"A single tap on its surface instantly zooms in on images; a flicking gesture moves one photo off the screen and pulls another one on. Menus appear with clever animation, and actions like downloading...

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The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.A Chinese worker at a Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China is "definitely not fired," a factory spokesperson told the newspaper...

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Look, I used to be a professional musician. And basically, most mashups, remixes, and other Music 2.0 just doesn't work. All brain, no booty. But this remix of Bill O'Reilly's most awesomely human...

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Nth Power founder Nancy Floyd, whose firm invests in clean-energy solutions, spoke at the Democratic convention last night. I tracked down her full speech. Nth Power's investments haven't exactly...

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Luxer-than-thou retailer J. Crew has mostly avoided the economic pinch, since its customers barely notice that they're paying $4 a gallon for gas. Instead, the retailer has been laid low by buggy...

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Thanks to Google's unquestioned domination, the not-so-wide world of search makes for uninteresting competition. But while Yahoo, Ask, and now Cuil duke it out for whatever scraps of market share...

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Virtual worlds are endlessly mutable. As are the wildly implausible schemes their boosters concoct for making money off them. The latest idea Linden Lab has for Second Life: Profit, in some vague,...

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Investments in startups by European firms last quarter hit their lowest level since at least 2000. Dow Jones VentureSource counts only 167 companies funded, compared to nearly 300 a year ago. Total...

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The New York Times pored over the details of AT&T's new overseas data plans for the iPhone. Not only is it pricey, but absent-minded travelers (that's "I believe I'm slightly autistic" in the Valley,...

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It costs an estimted $50,000 per reporter to cover the media blitz at the big political parties' national conventions, causing some to wonder why coverage is so expensive. Short answer? Journalists...

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David Karp's Tumblr, the New York-based blogging startup, rolled out a site redesign yesterday. One of the new features is a Google Map showing where Tumblr users are located. We weren't surprised to...

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Time magazine gives renewable energy credit to hunky God-mayor Gavin Newsom. None was due. The august journal hails our fair mayor for a nonexistent wind-energy installation: San Francisco Mayor...

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David Maestri created Facebook's most successful widget, Mob Wars, but now he's in legal trouble because he developed and launched the app while working for the company that would become the Social...

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If there's a successful business model in the whole "user-generated content" revolution, it's in compnies getting for free services they used to pay for. Google is planning to let users rerank search...

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To say that I've been earnestly optimistic about the possibilities of the Red One camera is a gross understatement. Sure, Lord of the Rings filmmaker Peter Jackson was given an early test kit and...

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Aaron Sorkin — the guy who wrote films A Few Good Men, The American President andCharlie Wilson's War as well as TV shows West Wing, Sports Night and Studio 60 — is working with Sony and...

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Operating-system monopolist Microsoft maintains a campus and a number of satellite offices here in the Valley, and competes voraciously with other local companies for talent from around the world. So...

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Operating system monopolist Microsoft maintains a campus and a number of satellite offices here in the Valley, and competes voraciously with other local companies for talent from around the world. So...

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The iPhone 3G hasalready outsold the original iPhone. One reason for all the success? False advertising, says the U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority. The ASA has told Apple it can no longer air...

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