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Google buys app, shuts down iPhone version

Google Inc. has acquired reMail, which develops e-mail search applications for smart phones, and promptly shut it down for Apple Inc.’s popular iPhone.

The move likely marks another skirmish in the escalating war between the two Silicon Valley giants.

Google of Mountain View hasn’t discussed the purchase publicly — and no one’s disclosed the price — but ReMail revealed the purchase and decision to discontinue the iPhone app on its blog.

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Apple might be banning iPhone hackers

Uh oh, look out jailbreakers and hackers of San Francisco; it appears that maybe Apple has had enough. In such an iPhonecentric city like this one, there are probably more than a few of you out there that have begun to sweat bullets. Before you do, calm down because it’s too early to tell if this is an isolated incident or something big in the making.

Coming on the heels of the release of OS 3.1.3 and the subsequent jailbreak released shortly afterwards, it appears, courtesy of a report by Redmond Pie, that Apple has begun cracking down on developers/hackers associated with exploiting the iPhone OS.

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