I’m a huge fan of the National Trust. For those of you not familiar with it – the National Trust is a non-profit ogranization that runs many country homes and historical sites throughout Britain. It was very common for aristocrats to donate their houses to the Trust to avoid inheritance taxes.

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O2 Ireland customers will finally be able to unlock Apple’s iPhone the mobile phone provider has announced.Writing on the O2 forum Rod Coleman, Head of Customer Care at O2 notes the amount of discussion surrounding the unlocking on iPhones, especially those who want to pass on old handsets.

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TomTom has confirmed to Pocket-lint that it has submitted a new version of its iPhone GPS app, version 1.3, to Apple for approval.

The new App, which should be available to download in a couple of weeks time will, says the company, come with a number of new features including its HD Traffic service as an in app purchase.

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Aarhus, Denmark - DevDay for iPhone is a dedicated interactive one day conference for software developers and business professionals who want to learn how to successfully build and market iPhone applications. DevDay for iPhone will take place at Dexter House in London, UK April 26, 2010.

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Sygic has decided to discount the prices for a while to celebrate the iPhone app update… Sygic Mobile Maps Europe now EUR 49.99, Gulf Countries now USD 79.99, Russia now EUR 49.99, and Australia & New Zealand AUD 59.99.

Grab it while you can!

Wolfsburg/Geneva,– Volkswagen delivers a new iPhone application to Apple’s online store just in time for the beginning of the International Geneva Motor Show (4 – 14 March). With this app, the innovations that Volkswagen is presenting this year can be tracked virtually, too. This useful and informative application — called “Geneva Salon 2010” — is available at no charge in the AppStore starting 1 March.

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The idea is simple enough: German tabloid Bild wanted to allow readers to undress their daily page one girl on their iPhones. But the app has run afoul of Apple’s decency standards, leading the paper to accuse the US computer giant of censorship. The case seems far-fetched, but Apple’s criteria remain inscrutable.

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A new iPhone and Android app has launched that takes government data on ASB statistics and presents it to consumers in an easy-to-consume map-based format.

In other words, the ASBOrometer will tell you just how many Anti-Social Behaviour Orders have been handed out to your neighbours, or in other geographical areas.

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The iPhone may not have been on show at Mobile World Congress. But as ever, its influence was felt across the show floor. No matter what the media-trained suits say, Apple’s blower has completely redefined what a mobile phone can do. Not because it was the first smartphone, but because of its all round, easy-to-use style.

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Vodaphone CEO Vittorio Colao took to stage at Mobile World Congress is Spain this week to warn that smartphones—representing the only growth proposition in mobile phone sales—will soon begin to outstrip wireless networks’ capacity to send and receive data. While chipmakers, handset makers, and services providers are all cashing in on the growth, mobile carriers are left trying to “cope” with the growing demand for data from increasingly data-hungry phones.

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O2 and Orange are to join more than a dozen mobile groups in a project to pool resources and create ‘app’-style services across their range of handsets.

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The iPhone app, called PROVE IT, aims to create a live community that allows users to access a guide to their ski resort, record videos of their ski sessions and upload them to Facebook, and track where their friends are on slopes.

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Swedish mobile navigation supplier Appello claims to be the number one seller of iPhone navigation application in Sweden and Austria, following its recent launch with TeliaSonera Sweden and T-Mobile Austria.

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Vodafone Ireland is spending tens of millions of euro upgrading its infrastructure as it introduces the first so-called 3.5G high-speed network in the country.

The company disclosed the investment yesterday as shares in its parent jumped over 3.5pc in London after it forecast better than previously anticipated cash flow and a firmer profit outlook for its March year-end.

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Italy’s national film archive company said Tuesday it will take legal action against the “improper” distribution of a set of fiery speeches by Benito Mussolini in a best-selling iPhone application.

The Rome-based Istituto Luce said in a statement that US company Apple must “immediately interrupt” the sale of the Mussolini material on its iTunes download store.

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The growing popularity of smartphones such as iPhones and BlackBerrys has allowed ARM Holdings, the British microchip designer, to outperform the weak semiconductor industry.

The Cambridge-based group, a spin-off from Acorn Computers, said today that annual revenues slid 10 per cent to £305 million and pre-tax annual profits dropped 4 per cent to £97 million.

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An iPhone application containing 100 of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini’s speeches has become the second most downloaded item in Italy, it emerged today. The application, called iMussolini, is available on Apple’s on line store for 79 euro cents (59p).

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Strong holiday season Mac and iPhone sales have propelled Apple (NSDQ:AAPL) to another quarter that other technology vendors could be excused for viewing with a pathological degree of envy.

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Demand for so-called smartphones, such as Apple’s iPhone, helped Carphone Warehouse increase its full year earnings forecasts yesterday, after a robust Christmas trading period.

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Now there are rumours and then there are big RUMOURS and now it seems that France Telecom wants the next-generation new iPhone 4G in 2010.

Apparently and according to The iPhone Blog and of course they think it’s crazy as much as we do that the new iPhone will come sometime in May, well come on normally Apple release its device in July so what makes you think it will be in May.

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