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Software

Sensis Launches White Pages iPhone App

3:42PM Nick Broughall | I can’t remember the last time I used the White Pages. Or the Yellow Pages, for that matter. But if you’ve got a need to look up somebody’s phone number and want to do it from your iPhone, Sensis has launched its White Pages iPhone app. It’s free. [iTunes]
Gadgets

First-Ever Phone Directory and Instruction Manual to Be Auctioned

2:10AM Addy Dugdale | This is the world’s first phone directory—and it’s going up for sale next month in New York at Christie’s auctioneers. The Telephone Directory, Volume 1, Number 1, for New Haven, Connecticut, aptly enough, is, at 20 pages, more of a pamphlet than the kind of thing that big strong men rip in half to make the ladies swoon (and us geeks shrug and say, “SFW?”) But the funniest thing about The Telephone Directory (apart from the estimated price) is the first eight pages—which are instructions on how to use the telephone.