Babies are unable to speak in a language that adults can fully understand, and instead communicate their needs through crying. While many parents are often able to distinguish the meaning of their baby's cries, that is not always the case. Now, there is a handy iPhone app that promises to tell you why your baby is crying.

A company based out of Barcelona recently launched an iPhone application that they say tell you why your baby is crying in just 10 seconds. Dubbed "The Cry Translator", creators Pedro Barrerra and Luis Meca say the app "involves a revolutionary technology that quickly identifies an infant's cry, based on one of five emotional or physiological states: hunger, fatigue, annoyance, stress or boredom".

The creators say:

'These five cries are universal to all babies regardless of culture or language.'

So how does it work? Parents are instructed to place their iPhone about a foot away from the crying baby and then press the "Start" button. The cries are then analyzed and identified within 10 seconds with a 96 percent degree of accuracy. After the cry is identified, tips are then given on how to remedy the situation and calm the infant.

Have you ever wondered what you would look like with bigger breasts or poutier lips? Now you can find out using a simple app made for the iPhone. There are now two plastic surgery applications for the Apple iPhone that offer users information, games and the chance to see what they would look like with a face lift, new nose, and many other procedures.

The firs plastic surgery app - The Shafer Plastic Surgery App - launched in October. It's the first app of its kind amongst Apple's 85,000 offerings in the iPhone App Store. It was created by Dr. David Shafer of New York, and taps into more than 1,000 questions and answers about specific cosmetic procedures.

The second iPhone plastic surgery app will soon hit the iPhone App Store, and it's called "iSurgeon". iSurgeon was developed by Miami cosmetic surgeon Dr. Michael Salzhauer, who is also well known for authoring the 2008 book "My Beautiful Mommy" - a book aimed at helping 4 to 7 year old children cope with their mother's plastic surgery.

iSurgeon will feature a fun game mode that allows users to try their hand at surgery, giving people the chance to instantly modify images of themselves or their friends through breast augmentations, lip enhancements and dozens of other procedures.

The worldwide recession has caused hard times for many businesses, however it has had little effect on their use of mobile data services. According to an update to ABI Research's Business Mobility Market Data, global mobile data services revenue are expected to increase by 17 percent in 2010, and through 2014, mobile data services revenues will grow at a Compound Annual Growth rate of 12 percent.

Revenues from mobile broadband are expected to be at their highest from 2010 to 2014 in North America, but the largest share of mobile broadband services revenue will go to mobile business customers in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, where 2014 revenues will increase to 27 and 26 percent of total spending respectively.

The Asia Pacific area, application download revenues will see its greatest growth amongst mobile business customers The highest portion of average revenue per user spent for these applications will come from business customers in Western Europe and Asia Pacific.

ABI practice director Dan Shey said:

Photo courtesy of BoyGeniusReport.com, who got a hands-on with the new phone.

On October 30, Verizon Wireless will roll out its new Android-based Motorola phone, and the new website for the phone takes direct aim at Apple. They don't even try to hid their contempt for Apple, and the site is full of direct attacks on them. Most notably, the site reads (in an Apple-like font with an Apple-like graphic):

idon't have a real keyboard
idon't run simultaneous apps
idon't take night shots
idon't allow open development
idon't customize
idon't run widgets
idon't have interchangeable batteries
everything idon't
droiddoes

The new Verizon Droid site also utilizes Flash, which was recently announced for all major mobile operating systems, except the iPhone. In order to run Flash on Android phones, you'll need Android OS 2.0, which the Droid has.

While Motorola manufactured the Droid phone, they don't make an appearance on the website. This is purely a Verizon vs. Apple thing, and NOT a Verizon vs. AT&T (the exclusive carrier of the iPhone) or a Motorola vs. Apple thing.

Hewlett-Packard acquired Compaq back in 2002, since then they have kept the name alive, but haven't given it a real marketing push. In recent years the brand has been relegated to overseas markets and sold as a second-tier PC in warehouse style stores. Now HP is looking to revive the brand in the U.S., launching a series of ultracheap computers to meet the needs of consumers tightening their belts amidst a downtrodden economy.

HP is now looking to position the Compaq as not only the label for cheap computers, but also as a brand with mainstream U.S. appeal. On Thursday the company announced the rollout of a line of ultra-inexpensive PCs, including laptops and deskstops.

The first offering is a 15.6-inch laptop featuring AMD Sempron CPU, 2GB of RAM, 160GB hard drive, DVD burner, and discrete graphics. It runs off Windows 7 Home Premium, and is priced at just $399. That's the MSRP, and not one of those get up at 5am and wait in a long line in the hopes you might get one of the 15 in stock at the store kind of deals.

Desktop buyers will find an even better deal, offering the Compaq Presario 4010f with similar specs and a 250GB hard drive starting at $309 after a $100 rebate.

Today, Apple sent out an invitation to members of the media, alerting them of a media event to be held on September 9. While the invites declined to provide any information on what products will be unveiled next week at t event, speculation is that Apple will reveal a refreshed line of iPods.

Apple has held media events in September regularly in recent years to show off new and refreshed iPod models for the holiday shopping season. In 2007 they launched the iPod Touch, and the iPod Nano in 2005. This year it is expected that they will launch updated Nanos and Touches with digital cameras. The Touch may also have a video camera say analysts.

Apple could also use the event to launch the much-rumored, but never confirmed tablet device. However, analysts do not anticipate the launch of this device until later this year or early next year.

Speculation has been mounting for some time that Apple is due to be releasing its first tablet computer in the coming months. Last week the Financial Times said that the device may be announced as early as next month. Today, Mashable tipped us off to a story in Barron's which quotes an analyst who claims to have seen the device "first hand."

Barron's does not name the analyst, who claims that he has seen a prototype of the device. He doesn't give any details about the device's specs, but comments on the device's playback of high-def video and how it is close to a final design in Asia.

Like FT, Barron's mentions the tablet "could be announced in September for a release in November." They speculate the price to be around $699 to $799.

At this point we'd be shocked if they DIDN'T announce a tablet computer before Christmas.

25-year-old Sun Danyong committed suicide last week after a fourth-generation iPhone prototype that he was responsible for turned up missing.

A recent engineering graduate, Sun had landed a job handling product communications for the electronics manufacturing company, Foxconn in Shenzhen. He was charged with shipping iPhone prototypes from Foxconn to Apple.

According to reports coming out of China, Sun got 16 prototypes from the assembly line at a local Foxconn factory on July 9th. At some point over the course of the next few days, he discovered that one of the phones was missing and suspected that it was left at the factory. However, he was unable to find it. On Monday, July 13, Sun reported the missing phone to his boss, and then on Wednesday three Foxconn employees illegally searched his apartment. They have also been accused of detaining and physically abusing Sun during the investigation, but this has not yet been substantiated. Surveillance videos in Sun's apartment building showed that on Thursday just after 3am, he jumped out of a window in his apartment building to his death.

Foxconn, which is based out of Taiwan with factories throughout Asia, makes Apple's iPhones and iPods, as well as numerous other hardware devices for other international technology companies.

Every move Apple makes is documented in the press and online on various websites. There are entire blogs dedicated to following the latest Apple rumors and speculation. Because of the way Apple works - relying on the element of surprise to build up excitement for product launches - there is immense pressure on its business partners to help it maintain secrecy. Until now, the missing phone has been merely speculation on gadget sites.

You know those iPhone commercials that declare "There's an App for that"? Porn, yes there is an app for that. At least there was for a day before Apple decided to pull the plug after the widespread attention it received.

The application for Apple's iPhone and ITouch was "Hottest Girls". It had cost $2 to download and featured 2200 naked women in various states of undress.
Was there demand for porn on the go? Was there ever! The application was being downloaded so much that it killed the servers from the company selling the software.

On Monday T-Mobile announced that the first follow up to their G1 "Google Phone" will go on sale in early August. Dubbed the "myTouch 3G", it will be a touch-screen phone and will lack the physical keyboard of the T-Mobile G1, which was the first phone that used Google's Android software.

It's clear that T-Mobile is hoping to have created a major competitor to the Apple iPhone. Even the name of their new Google phone is reminiscent of a similar Apple product - iTouch vs. myTouch - and the lack of a physical keyboard with this model brings them all that much closer to having something pretty similar to the iPhone.

The myTouch, which was created by HTC, looks a lot like an iPhone and even has many of the same features. It will be available for $199 with a two-year contract, and will ship with software that allows it to connect to corporate e-mail servers. T-Mobile believes that the myTouch will appeal to a much wider audience than the G1.