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iPhone addicts love their iPhones, but nothing is perfect. Customer feedback for Apple just went public on Please Fix the iPhone. The site let’s iPhone owners, or anyone else, list and vote on the features that most need fixing on the iPhone. The features that get the most votes rise up the ranks. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/20/please-fix-the-iphone-a-to-do-list-for-steve-jobs 10/20)

A mobile-game advertising agency says that the introduction of iPhones has increased the age of the typical player to 18- to 34-year-olds, a market that is highly sought after. In a report, Greystripe noted that the demo was mainly well-educated and affluent and that these users had been playing games and going online in ever-increasing numbers. cellular-news (U.K.) (10/20)

Two-man startup AppLoop has added to its suite of self-service tools for iPhone developers by launching App Generator, which automatically turns any blog with an RSS feed into a native iPhone app modeled after that of the The New York Times. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/20/apploop-transforms-blogs-into-native-iphone-applications 10/20)

Broadcasters filed an emergency request with the FCC on Friday urging the agency to slow down plans to open up vacant “white space” spectrum for use by wireless internet devices. The NAB has long maintained that portable devices operating on unused TV spectrum would interfere with TV reception; now it claims the FCC misinterpreted a report released last Wednesday by the commission’s Office of Engineering and Technology detailing interference test data. (Cynopsis 10/20)