Good to know this is how Astronauts spend their time in space. Actually, I'm kinda serious. If you're up there and can't take a moment to enjoy the infinite fun that Zero G provides...well...I just feel bad for you.

[TodaysBigThing]

After some prodding from John Kerry earlier in the week, the FCC is going to investigate exclusive deals struck between phone makers and mobile carriers, to see whether or not they stifle consumer choices and the development of new technology.

According to PC World, FCC Chairman Michael Copps hinted that if they do discover unfavorable effects as a result of exclusive handset deals, they won't be opposed to regulation. Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar also rambled on, saying something about how if Microsoft and IBM had exclusive deals Google would have never existed. Um, what?

But there's a twist! AT&T's Paul Roth fired back at this line of thinking, mentioning that exclusive deals prevent the mobile handset world from completely devolving into a lowest common denominator mentality when it comes to new tech. Both sides have valid points, I suppose. So let the battle begin. [PC World]

Hey Chicago iPhone 3G and 3GS users. Want to help us out? Download the Speedtest app for your iPhone, and run it. Why Chicago? Because AT&T's been testing 7.2Mbps there.

Just download the app, run the test, and take a screenshot (home and power buttons). Then send us the screenshot via your iPhone mail client to tips@gizmodo.com with the subject "Chicago Speedtest", and we'll crunch them together to see what the average is. Make sure to let us know whether you're using 3G or 3GS! Oh, and make sure you have Wi-Fi off or the numbers will get all funked up.

Feel free to send in as many entries as you like, if you're moving around during the day and want to get a reading a home, work and on the train.

This is embarassing. Jack Yates has been sentenced to six months in jail for pirating the horrible Mike Meyers movie The Love Guru. It might have been worth it for Star Trek, but come on, The Love Guru?

Yates was working at the Burbank distribution company hired to cut promo reels for talk shows when he made a copy of the DVD and uploaded it to the internet. Of course, he blamed his grandmother.

When confronted, Yates accused co-workers and Paramount employees of putting the contraband copy on the Internet. But videotaped footage showed Yates making the unauthorized copy of "The Love Guru" at work before leaving the building and then going into his car, Assistant U.S. Attorney Erik M. Silber said. Yates subsequently blamed his grandmother, saying that he showed the movie at her birthday party and she then gave it away to a cousin who gave it to a friend who was the former roommate of the man who is believed to have uploaded the movie, but has not yet been charged. In his plea agreement, Yates confessed to making a copy of the comedy and later distributing it to others.

A true american hero! Keep fighting that good fight! [WSJ via Gawker]

Bandai is taking a new approach in the herculean task that is enticing nerds to exercise. This pedometer/calorie counter casts you as a 16th century Samurai hell-bent on controlling Japan.

You can choose between three daimyo characters from the Sengoku, or Warring States. The more you walk, the closer you and your foot soldiers will come to conquering Japan. Although, something tells me Samurai wouldn't need a nap after five minutes on a treadmill. [Bandai via Impress via Tokyo Mango]

iPhone 3.0 has landed, and the first apps with the new features are squirming their way through the App Store's clenching gates of approval. How are they? Well, for starters, they all look awfully familiar.

Given that the firmware update has only been live for two days now, the vast majority of 3.0-utilizing downloads are just refreshes of older apps. In fact, you can expect that the be the case for a while; iPhone 3.0's new features are nice, but most of them aren't the kind of thing you'd build an entire app around. So, here are the best of the updates:

Leaf Trombone: World Stage: Apple demoed this thing way back in March, but that was pre-3.0, and most importantly for this App, pre-multiplayer. That's the big update here: iPhone faux-trombone duets which can be played over Bluetooth. The "World Stage" aspect of World Stage is still intact, putting your performances in front of an anonymous audience for cheering and heckling, though it's been padded out with some fluffy notification integration. It's a buck, accompanied by a solid free version.

Textfree: Intended as a text message client replacement, this is one of the first mischievous uses I've seen for the iPhone's push notifications. The app itself has been around for a while, but needed to forward texts to your email address in lieu of proper backgrounding/notifications. Now, it works all the time. It's free for 15 texts a day, six dollars for unlimited.

Flick Fishing: Despite sounding like the king of all junk apps, Flick fishing isn't so bad, if you're a fan of fish, nature or accelerometers. With 3.0, it gets multiplayer and some in-app purchases. Completely bewildering fact: this is one of the top 10 most downloaded apps ever. What the hell, people?

Twittelator: There's some smart 3.0 leveraging going on here, with an inbuilt media/web browser, wide video and audio support to complement the new voice recorder and the 3GS's camcorder function, a Tweeter-tracking map feature, and a few more. No push though! Five bucks is a tough sell next to the free Tweetdeck, although previous users upgrade at no cost. Also, guys: What happened to your free version?

AP Mobile: Another early app gets a refresh: this one seems hell-bent on testing the practical limits of push notifications. It says it'll only send "Breaking News" alerts, though I'm not sure what stories qualify. I'm guessing it'll take some fine-tuning, or else it could lead the way towards Push Alert Fatigue Syndrome, which I'm pretty sure we'll be writing about in a week or so. Free.

Bomberman 2: Volcano Party: The price reduction from the first version is enough to recommend this one, and the 3.0 features—mostly (synchronous!) Bluetooth multiplayer—are a huge bonus. As with most of the real-time multiplayer games, there's no 3G support for latency and networking reasons. Three dollars.

Evernote: The free, does-it-all notes app now taps into 3.0's Google Maps API, and organizes notes by location. Sound recording now much better, if a little redundant, and a raft of other features—mostly interface improvements—abound.

This Week's App News on Giz:

• First iPhone App with In-App Purchasing: $1 App, $10 Per Month

• Sirius/XM iPhone App Is Now Live (Also)

• MLB Streaming Full Live Games to iPhone Over 3G, Starting Tomorrow

• TweetDeck for iPhone Lightning Review

• Ngmoco's Xbox Live-esque iPhone Service Set to Launch Tomorrow

• 94 God-Awful iPhone Apps Designed in MS Paint

• iPhone 3.0 Features Slightly Clueless "Objectionable Content" Warnings

This list is in no way definitive. If you've spotted a great app that hit the store this week, give us a heads up or, better yet, your firsthand impressions in the comments. And for even more apps: see our previous weekly roundups here, and check out our Favorite iPhone Apps Directory and our original iPhone App Review Marathon. Have a good weekend everybody.

So you braved the lines (or sat patiently for the mailman) today and received the iPhone 3GS as your reward. Fantastic. But what do you think of it now that you have had some time to kick the tires?

Colby Curtin, a 10-year-old girl suffering from terminal vascular cancer, told her mom that she wanted to live to see Pixar's Up. But before she could visit the theater, her condition became too unstable for her to be moved.

Colby's family called Pixar, guessed a name of an employee to break through the automated operator and explained the situation to the first person they reached. A Pixar employee flew out immediately with a DVD, toys and posters in hand. From the OC Register:

Colby couldn't see the screen because the pain kept her eyes closed so her mother gave her a play-by-play of the film.

"Do you think you can hang on?" Colby's mother said.

"I'm ready (to die), but I'm going to wait for the movie," the girl replied.

At the end of the film, the mother asked if her daughter enjoyed the movie and Colby nodded yes, Lisa Curtin said.

Colby died later that evening, hopefully fulfilled in at least some small way. [ocregister]

The 1.0.3 update to your Palm Pre doesn't add any new apps, but it does fix a few things in Gmail, Contacts and Calendar syncing. Here's the changelog:

Feature changes to existing applications
Calendar

* Events created in your Google calendar-either in Calendar on your phone or in Google online-that contain a symbol or accented character in the event name can now synchronize. Previously, including a symbol or accented character in an event name prevented the event from synchronizing.
* Changes made to Google events on the phone now sync with Google online within a few minutes.
* The sync interval for Google events has been decreased from every few hours to every 15 minutes.

Clock

* If you create a weekday alarm on a weekend, the alarm sounds only on weekdays. Previously the alarm would sound on the weekend also.

Contacts

* Changes made to Google contacts on the phone now sync with Google online within a few minutes.
* The sync interval for Google contacts has been decreased from every few hours to every 15 minutes.

Email

* Power performance in areas where wireless coverage is sporadic or unavailable has been enhanced.
* Non-SSL Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) mail servers are now supported.

Other

* Miscellaneous updates for Email, Phone, and other applications.

See this chair? It is designed with the comfort of your genitals in mind. Don't believe me? Just listen to a no-nonsense Finn describe its advantages over close ups of comfy, comfy balls.

[Today's Big Thing]