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British Airways says it will allow limited cell phone use on a London-New York flight due to start in September.

“He’s encased in ice, except his legs, which are sticking out like Popsicle sticks,” the caller phoned to tell this reporter. It turns out that this person last week was playing hockey on the frozen waters that had collected in the basement of the building. None of the men called the police, he said. They, in fact, continued their hockey game.

Everett police said a 24-year-old man picked the wrong place to try to deal drugs — a stall in the police station restroom. Police Sgt. Robert Goetz said the man was overheard Wednesday using a cellular telephone to try to sell Oxycodone, a prescription painkiller, and other drugs.

AT&T is hoping to make 3G-enabled notebooks a staple of its cellular business, and in an executive interview hints that it may be chatting with Apple to extend its reach into MacBooks or other non-iPhone devices.

iPhone is not going to become the way developers create new sites from scratch (yet, anyway). But a lot of iPhone apps can make it easier to fix and manage things on the fly.

ndogg writes “While other companies are throttling their services, and capping bandwidth, Charter Communications, the cable company, is launching a 60/5 Internet service, starting in St. Louis, MO. It’s certainly not cheap, starting at 129.99 per month (add another 10 if it’s not being bundled with television or phone.) Currently, it’s the fastest down stream speed available, and being a cable company, they potentially have greater reach than FiOS.” However, there may be a risk to putting too much money down on this service; Charter Communications as a company faces some serious financial problems right now. As reader Afforess writes, “rumors abound that Paul Allen may just cut his losses and run,” by selling the company. (Allen is the majority stockholder.)

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Hidden strings in Apple’s latest iPhone firmware reveals that a major revision of the hardware is in the works and is even being tested online.

Apple has squeezed out the latest software update for the iPhone and the iPod Touch, v2.2.1. As always with Apple updates, the release notes are maddeningly sparse.

Great news for iPhone development, as Apple now allows apps to communicate with each other. Here’s how it works.

Get more from this author Apple has ordered the developer of the iPhone Wobble application to remove the words “boobs” and “booty” from his publicity, despite selling more than 20000 copies of the epically pointless app.