If you can wait until 2010, recharging your cell phone is going to get a lot easier for Europeans. 

Apple, LG, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Qualcomm, Research In Motion, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, and Texas Instruments have all signed an agreement making Micro USB the official cell phone recharger of Europe, meaning anyone would be able to borrow anyone else's cell phone recharger and wouldn't necessarily have to buy a new recharger when they get a new phone - saving money.

Right now it's just a rumor, but it's a rumor from a very reliable source.

Nikkei Business Daily is reporting that Sony is in the beginning stages of putting together a Playstation/cell phone hybrid, with a product team being assembled as early as next month. Considering Sony owns the Playstation console and is already a partnering to manufacture cell phones with Ericsson; the idea of a gaming cell phone is a no brainier for them.  

Great, just what the world needs - more Best Buys.

All we know for sure is that the Hottest Girl has been taken down from the iPhone App Store, and like a "who done it" in reverse, everyone wants to take credit for it being gone. 

Initially, application developer Allen Leung said that he took down Hottest Girls, which was the first iPhone application to feature naked woman because it was gasp, just too popular:

It looks iPhone Apps are going where no virgin has gone before!

Taking advantage of the new parental controls option in the iPhone 3.0 SDK, existing iPhone application Hottest Girls is the first App out of the gate to offer adult content, yesterday begining to offering pictures of naked or topless woman, instead of just the bikini and lingerie shots that had been peddling previously:

You can even lick! Yeah, I have no idea why you'd actually want to. 

Hot on the heels of the more aesthetically pleasing Touchstone for the Palm Pre, Wildcharge has come out with a wireless charger for the iPhone. Using conductive charging, as opposed to the magnetic connection used in Touchstone, you put your phone in a Wildcharge case on the electrical mat, and it recharges. 

But best of all, it's so safe you can even lick it!

While the activation delays were a fraction of the problem they were during the launch of the iPhone 3G, the fact that Apple moved 1 million units during the first three days the iPhone 3G S was on sale (unexpected because of no flashy new features), led to some people still having trouble activating their new iPhone on iTunes.

No big... Apple is offering you free songs as reperations:  

The children are not to be trusted.

A new survey of 1,013 teens found that of teens that have cell phone, and 84% of them did, a whopping one fourth of their text messages are sent in class, averaging out 3 texts per class. A significant portion of the students also said they've used their cell phone to cheat on tests, with only about half of those polled thinking that qualifies as a serious offense.    

The most amazing part of that? There are currently only 30 Palm Apps currently available, meaning on average every single Palm App is getting over 21,000 downloads. Now granted that ratio isn't going to to hold once the SDK is publicly available sometime in late summer, but 650,000 downloads in 11 days is impressive no matter how you slice it.

It'll be interesting to see how it's App Store matches up against the iPhone's, once both our operating at full strength. 

Want to know the real reason Steve Jobs has stepped aside from Apple for six months?

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Jobs had a liver transplant two months ago in Tennessee, and that rather than the vague explanation of getting a "hormone imbalance" is what's behind Jobs's leave of absence. It's not official that the transplant is related to his 2004 battle with pancreatic cancer, but statistics indicate that's pretty likely: