Notice to conspiracy theorists the world over: the disconcerting news that Apple's iPhone has a hidden Big Brother feature which secretly tracks and relays personal phone usage has indeed been put to rest.

Recent discoveries promulgated that the iPhone, Apple's first mobile phone product, has a hidden feature cleverly stashed away among the codes of the mobile phone's "Stock" and "Weather" widgets. And for some people, it has caused much distress.

It was speculated that this feature enables the iPhone to record personal phone usage and the IEMI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) numbers of all iPhones currently in use worldwide. In this manner, software savvy analysts thought that the iPhone gave Apple a means to spy on you.

Unfortunately, these only remain as rumors. Other analysts have run special code to monitor the information an iPhone sent out during normal phone use.  As it turns out, the information that the Apple phone did send was not alarming. In fact, software running on the iPhone would sent out their own unique identifiers, too.