> As such, U.S. regulators have “[taken an interest in Apple’s actions](http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e7ae5066-7408-11df-87f5-00144feabdc0.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&ft_ref=appleinsider&segid=03058),” according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke to the *Financial Times*, though it’s reportedly unclear as of yet whether the investigation will be handled by the Federal Trade Commission or passed off to the Department of Justice. > > Word of the probe comes less than a month after antitrust regulators concluded a similar investigation into whether Google…

> Without explaining how, *iFixYouri* says it came into possession of a complete iPhone 4 shell with its glass face in tact, but minus its internal componentry. It then performed several drop tests of the device from 3 and a half feet above ground, which [shattered the glass panel](http://www.ifixyouri.com/blog/?p=59) on the third attempt, as can be seen below. > > The firm did not disclose the surface onto which the unit was dropped, nor did it perform any investigation into whether the device was more susceptible…

> **One of the key players in creating Palm’s WebOS mobile operating system, a man who designed its non-intrusive notification system, is now Apple’s Senior User Interface Designer.** > > Rich Dellinger [worked as](http://www.precentral.net/father-webos-notifications-leaves-apple) the User Interface Design Architect at Palm for nearly 4 years. During his time there, he invented the WebOS notification system and co-developed the application framework used by the operating system found on Palm’s Pre. > > Dellinger was also the visual designer, interaction designer and engineer of WebOS, and he created the…

> I read every single comment on [my EVO 4G review](http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/05/31/htc-evo-4g-sprint-review/) with the hope that I was wrong about the phone’s battery issue and was simply doing something wrong. But none of the suggestions significantly improved my EVO 4G’s battery life. However, by doing a bunch of little things, I extended it’s idle life from about 12 hours to 14:30 — this is the phone’s battery life with everything turned off besides 3G and it just sits. All the…

> The other day I was talking to a colleague, a bright guy who obviously works in the technology and media industries, but isn’t on the technical side. He’s what I’d call a moderately informed tech consumer, and I was showing him my new iPad. His response to me was shocking: He said that he had been interested in buying an iPad, but needed to read PDF files, and since Apple only supported its own formats, he couldn’t buy one. via [macworld.com](http://www.macworld.com/…