Wireless syncing between both the iPhone and iPad and the program iTunes (on PCs) is finally rolling out to iDevices as part of the new iOS 5. Users will now be able to sync their iTunes libraries with their iDevice using a shared Wi-Fi network--no cord necessary. But this new iOS feature is curiously similar to an old Cydia app by the name of Wi-Fi Sync. So similar, in fact, that one college student and Cydia app developer thinks Apple ripped off his app--name, icon, and all.

Sure, wireless syncing isn't a unique idea, nor is it new (it's just new to Apple devices)--so it's not necessarily true that Apple stole some poor student's idea. But that doesn't mean they didn't rip off the name and logo of said student's application.

In May 2010, University of Birmingham student Greg Hughes submitted his app "Wi-Fi Sync" to Apple's App Store. The app was rejected from Apple's App Store because of "unspecified security concerns." Hughes told The Register that an iPhone developer relations representative named Steve Rea called him to say the app was admirable, but did things not specified in the official iPhone software developers' kit.

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