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Probably the funniest bit of audience participation of the evening or of recent memory.

Here’s a suggestion for clearing the room of Wifi signals: Broadcast the keynote live (and at the same time show off your Quicktime Broadcaster software.) What’s the point of not going live when the whole room is documenting it anyway.

Apple opens up, allows third-party ads into iOS apps

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Apple has made a significant alteration to the terms of its developer agreement, opening up the market for in-app ad sales by third party ad networks, a promise Apple boss Steve Jobs made at D: All Things Digital last week.

The move was a response to an April-made change to the dev deal, in which the company appeared to ban third party ad networks, leading to much speculation Apple intended locking its growing platform down.

The notion that Apple may deny access to its mobile ecosystem to competing ads networks was bound to attract attention, particularly in view of the extent of that ecosystem.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs yesterday confirmed the company expect to sell its 100 millionth iOS-powered device in the coming few days. The change of name for the OS — from iPhone OS to iOS — is also indicative that Apple

VIDEO: Podracer makes double iPad track stack it's a fact

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You know you wanted this to happen — your iPhone or iPod touch used as a controller for a racing game — but with the most recent release of the game, Podracer goes one stage (or one iPad) further — now you can link two iPads together to make for a bigger track.

Not clear? Podracer lets you use your iPhone or iPod touch as a controller for a little racing car which drives around the track on an iPad. Mutliple player gaming is supported. Now you can link two iPads up for a bigger track. Kind of cool, huh? Game costs $4.99, though you can download the iPhone control software for free.

Cisco licenses 'iOS' name to Apple

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Apple announced that it was changing its iPhoneOS to iOS today, which makes sense now that it has three device families (and likely more soon) all using the iPhoneOS operating system.  We originally reported the change back in January.

But why does iOS sound familiar you may be asking yourself? Oh yeah, it is the OS that runs the Internet.   Cisco’s routers have been running IOS for two decades. Luckily, Apple and Cisco trademark attorneys have a long relationship, as they hammered out the ‘iPhone’ trademark dispute just three years ago.  Today, Cisco announced via Blog that they had licensed the iOS name to Apple for use and their iPhone, iPad and iPod touch Operating System.  They said in a statement:

WWDC VIDEO: Apple's new Face Time ad and new stats resource here

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Up above there we have Apple’s all-new video featuring the new app and future video-calling via mobile device standard, Face Time, as announced at WWDC today.

We thought you might also want to take a look at some of the many interesting stats Apple let slip during the event, more on thse below, after all, we all love statistics, so here

WWDC VIDEO: Apple's all-new iPhone 4 Design Video hits t'internets

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Here’s Apple’s all-new iPhone 4 video as featured during the company’s WWDC keynote this morning. “This is going to change the way we communicate” seems to be the sense of the piece — hardly surprising when you consider Jobs and Jony Ive made explicit reference to the iPhone 4’s role as the 21st Century equivalent of the Star Trek Communicator during their keynote video chat. Though we ownder about the impact of Face Time (Apple’s name for its zero-config video chat solution) on WiFi and cellular networks.

Also one in the eye for Google – Apple plans to make Face Time an open standard — and guess what, it probably won’t require the love, labor and patent lawsyuits some industry observers anticipate will hit VM8.