News roundup of three new 3D and animation software upgrades.

As great as Mobile Safari is, there are times when a web site is formatted poorly, and it is just too difficult to read comfortably on the iPhone. Enter Readability, a free and easy to use bookmarket that will reformat any web site, making it much more enjoyable on your small screen. There are three simple options: Style, which include options like newspaper or eBook; Size, from extra small to extra large; Margin, extra narrow to extra large. After you specify your preferred reading format, add the bookmarklet to your bookmarks. The next time you're browsing a page you simply tap on your bookmarklet and the site is instantly reformatted to your preferred style.

AT&T hasn't been quite as forthcoming with the details of its post-3G network as competitors T-Mobile and Verizon in recent weeks, butFierceBroadbandWireless seems to have gained access to specific details in an interview with wireless head Ralph de la Vega.

Although the standard HSPA 7.2Mbps deployment is still AT&T's short-term focus, HSPA+(which can theoretically take HSPA to 21Mbps and beyond) is still a company focus prior to LTE. "We will also deploy HSPA+ in certain locations," said de la Vega.

Electric Bat Interactive unveiled two new games, WarLords and Weblings.

Apple’s claim to the letter “i” has come to a screeching halt as a trademarks tribunal has rejected the company’s bid to stop a small company from using their favorite letter of the alphabet.

This particular company wanted to name it’s cases for Apple products DOPi, which is iPod spelled backwards. Apple’s argument was that the DOPi name resembled their own products too closely and that it had potential to confuse consumers that they were purchasing a Apple product.

Now if you stop and think about it there are currently other products on the market that use the letter “i” that Apple has not gone after – iSkin or iSoft anyone? So that must mean Apple is protecting the name iPod simply spelled backwards but intellectual property lawyer Trevor Choy has a explanation for that.

“A competitor can sometimes get away with registering the reverse spelling of a registered trade mark – iPOD and DOPi. Here, they said that DOPi stands for ‘Digital Options and Personalised Items’,”

We will let our readers decide this case. Should Apple have a case or is this another case of the company simply trying to throw it’s weight around? Sound off in the comments below!

[Thanks for the tip robert! Via smh.com.au]

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The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple's Chief Operating Officer, Tim Cook, received a bonus worth $22 million for his work filling in for Steve Jobs' during the CEO's 2009 medical leave.

iPad owners will apparently be able to lock the position of content on the screen, according to new images of the device posted today on Apple's online store. The external switch originally shown to 'mute' the device, as on the iPhone, will instead be used to lock the screen orientation preventing the display from switching between portrait and landscape views. The subtle change was very quiet with no known announcement from Apple regarding the reasoning behind favoring screen rotation locking over muting the built-in speaker.

Here are before and after images...

Everyone's got an iPhone app, even the Federal Communications Commission. Per Switched, the FCC has created its own FCC Broadband Test app [App Store, Free], which is designed to probe network latencies and download speeds on your home connection or mobile device.

The app, when finished, will furnish the FCC will useful data to show the discrepancy between advertised and real world broadband speeds, and will also serve as a way for users to directly compare network performance in particular areas.

Tony Hawk for iPhone? Let’s just him do the tweeting… er… talking:

In the PR world, this is considered “going rogue,” but I’m too excited to contain it. This is real & dropping soon.

Happy?

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