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It’s 2 AM. Do you know where your iPhone is? Well, maybe you do, thanks to MobileMe’s “Find my iPhone,” but what if you’re not a MobileMe subscriber? What if you want an app devoted to recovering a stolen iPhone or iPod Touch–one that has a few more tricks up its sleeve? Undercover 1.5 Ousts IPhone Thieves With Push Notifications

Windows Marketplace for Mobile debuted in October as Microsoft’s answer to smartphone app stores. As with Google’s Android Market, Windows Mobile 6.5 users could initially only find and purchase apps from the device. Now Microsoft has published an online catalog to mirror its mobile storefront. Microsoft opens online mobile Marketplace

Today, Palm released the Pixi, a kind of follow-up to the much-anticipated Palm Pre, which debuted earlier this year. Forget Pixi, Palm Users Needs Apps

Apple is taking a step toward shining some light on its iPhone application vetting process by providing a new way for app developers to track the status of programs they’ve submitted to the company’s App Store. Apple Gives iPhone Developers App Status Tracker

Over the weekend news broke that a worm had started infecting Jailbroken iPhones in Australia. Nobody really took the exploit too seriously as all the ‘ikee worm’ did was change the phone wallpaper to a picture of 80’s pop singer Rick Astley in a kind of warped tribute to the RickRolling Internet meme of last year. Warning: iPhone exploit in the wild and stealing user data

The red-hot virtual goods market is working its way onto Apple’s iPhone app platform, as developers hope to cash in on the iPhone’s relatively new support for in-app payments. How iPhone Apps Are Raking In Cash From Virtual Goods (AAPL, ERTS)

The buzzword in the cell phone industry since 2007 has been “iPhone Killer.” Since mere days after the release of the iPhone the other players in the industry were talking about how they were going to compete with the amazing piece of technology. Ultimate smartphone smackdown: Motorola Droid vs. iPhone 3GS

There is a hint of that old boomtown feeling again in the Bay Area — this time in living rooms and garages and cubicles where a cottage industry is unfolding around the iPhone app. iPhone Apps Take Root as Cottage Industry

Basically, you take care of a dogs, but there’s so much to do in this app and so many ways to interact that it’s just fun. Touch Pets Dogs something to bark about

Verizon’s  audacious marketing campaign will only get aggressive as we move towards the holiday season and lawsuits might not help AT&T in time to compete fairly against Verizon this season. New AT&T Ad Educates Customers About Verizon’s Misleading Ads