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Apple’s notification system on the iPhone is broken and the only current fix for it is an app for jailbroken iPhones. As Apple has improved the iPhone, many of the reasons to jailbreak your phone have gone away. Over the past three years they’ve added multitasking, tethering, and a WiFi hotspot feature, capabilities that were available to jailbroken iPhone users well before Apple implemented them. This has led to there being less of a need to jailbreak your phone, although there are still some very compelling reasons to do so....

Adobe’s Flash product has become an easy target over the past several years because of its relatively poor performance on mobile devices, especially when it comes to interactive content. What many people forget is that Flash is also a very good and widely adopted tool used for creating cool things. Most of my favorite games played on the web have been made in Flash and there are some incredibly talented and creative people doing wonderful things with the platform on desktop computers....

It’s that one day of the year when the news is full of outright lies. There are plenty of round-ups of some of the biggest April Fools jokes out there, so we thought we’d do something different and opt for April Fools just from Internet startups. Here are some of the best that we’ve found. Have we missed any good ones? Leave a comment and let us know. LiveDrive LiveDrivesays it has decided that physical backups are just as important as the cloud, so it’s now backing up its users’ data with barcodes....

I remember when we had just organized the very first edition of The Next Web Conference. It was slightly successful, meaning that people loved the event and we didn’t lose too much money. We were already working on the next edition and thinking about how to improve on the formula. We met with a ‘professional‘ who did events for a living to asked from some feedback. He started off by saying:...

When Apple formallyannouncediCloudlast week, it was part of an action packed Keynote address that included major updates to Apple’siOS softwareas well as new features ofOS X Lion, which arrives next month. iCloud was the only new product announced at WWDC this year and was the only one introduced solely by CEO Steve Jobs. Whether you were at the event or watching the Keynote later on video you could tell that iCloud was close to Job’s heart....