Teachers across Europe must be sighing with relief after hearing this. The EU Committee wants to ban every single device that transmits information wireless both inside and near schools. Imagine what that will mean for homes right next to schools. All cellular phones, tablets, laptops, and (in theory) anything that connects to a network without using cables is set to fall under the ban.

They also give absolutely no basis for doing this, citing previous cases where tobacco and asbestos have lead to big health problems and significant costs for the countries or companies involved.

While this isn’t officially law, at least for now, it could fully end up taking effect sometime in the future. Is this justifiable at all? Leave us a note in the comments below after the break.

[Source: EU Committee website - PDF]

Firefox Home is a way for you to view your bookmarks, history, open tabs, and the Awesome Bar of your computer’s Firefox browser on your iPhone and iPod touch, albeit that Firefox Home isn’t actually a browser. The app has not been submitted to the App Store, but seems likely to pass (after all, Opera Mini did).

Source: Mozilla Blog

8 bit lovers and Apple fanboys can finally rejoice today, now that the Digital Music Synthesizer is now available for the Apple II. The device is a wavetable synthesizer designed solely for live performances and comes with ten voices including trumpet, bass, square wave, sine wave, and sawtooth wave. Not only that, but sequences can be recorded for later, and there’s no monitor required. The synthesizer also supports Apple IIe, IIc, IIgs, and IIc+ models, and is available for $20, a reasonable price for something that does so much (not that we’re endorsing it – we don’t have an Apple II).

Source: 8 Bit Weapon

Over at Geekbench, an interesting benchmark recently popped up for an unreleased MacBook Pro (model 6,1) running a dual core Core i7 humming along at 2.66Ghz. Interesting? So is the operating system, which isn’t the current build of Snow Leopard, 10C540. Other results worthy enough to mention are that it’s running 4GB RAM and a final score of 5260, which makes current generation MacBook Pros seem like slugs – ranging in scores from 3500 to 4200 on the Geekbench tests. But are these authentic?

Considering that the security over at the Apple campus is so tight, we doubt that these are genuine results, and could’ve been done with some intricate hackintosh or that someone would’ve been dumb enough to post their results online for the whole world to see. But until they’re released, you can dream into the stars with Apple rumors, no?

See that? That’s the invitation sent by Apple an hour ago to some in the press and for an event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco at 10AM. We can’t be there this time, but we’ll link to a liveblog for your reference the day before.

Most predict that it will finally be the launch of the rumored Apple tablet, but there’s a chance it might be 22″ touchscreen iMacs, or another iPhone – it’s all shrouded in mystery.

Update: Looking at this closer, the border looks kind of like a tablet, and the paint is not finger-painting, it’s spray-paint with an Apple logo at the center. It looks like it’s the back of the Apple tablet, which would be in several colors – meaning customizing it might be huge. Does that mean the end of jailbreaking?