Note: See update at the end of this article. AT&T has just announced a fantastic perk for iPhone owners with AT&T contracts, free WiFi for iPhone customers on the nation’s largest Wi-Fi hotspot network. This opens up more than 17,000 hotspots, including Starbucks, to iPhone users to use for free on their iPhone, laptop or […]

Ever since Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone 3G, we’ve been waiting for this moment – the time when Tom Dickson from Will It Blend? destroys the over-hyped, twice-as-expensive, underpowered device in one of those monster Blendtec blenders. Fortunately, it didn’t take long: OK. Maybe we’re just a little bitter that 3G coverage is non-existent in […]

Apple today put the iPhone 3G on sale and officially launched the App Store with more than 500 downloadable applications. While the iPhone 3G is an important release, the App Store transforms the device from being a cell phone to being a platform. For people interested in new media, today marks the day that the […]

https://videopress.com/v/bMa9CH71/fmt_dvd Raanan Bar-Cohen has announced the imminent release of WordPress For iPhone: The WordPress for iPhone App is nearly ready to go. It supports WordPress.com blogs as well as self-hosted WordPress.org blogs running version 2.5.1 or newer. Timing wise, with the launch of Apple’s iTunes App store this morning, we expect to see this showing […]

First reviews of Apple’s iPhone 3G are getting published by Apple’s traditional press partners, and they are, to no surprise, generally favorable: Walt Mossberg: “I’ve been testing the iPhone 3G for a couple of weeks, and have found that it mostly keeps its promises. In particular, I found that doing email and surfing the Internet […]

Apple & AT&T stores are expected to open at 8am Friday, July 11th to launch the iPhone 3g. While the company hasn’t released an official press announcement, it doesn’t need to. There are already people waiting in line at some stores, and the launch is likely to be the most heavily hyped tech introduction of […]

Despite Steve Jobs’ best efforts to spin the new iPhone 3G‘s cost, the real user costs are starting to emerge, and it’s not pretty. The iPhone 3G isn’t just more expensive to buy with an AT&T contract, but it’s more expensive to buy if you plan on using it “unlocked”: Subscribers can buy the iPhone […]

Time‘s Jeremy Caplan writes that the “iPhone’s next frontier” is – OMG! – porn. iPhone porn that threatens today’s youth. Check out the drippingly lurid intro to Caplan’s article: “Apple may be golden because of the iPhone, but the soon-to-be-updated device is also increasingly the source of forbidden fruit. Steve Jobs’ company is keeping a […]

Some people are wondering about the prospects for the iPhone 3G – because 91% of Japanese reportedly will not buy an iPhone! Tech-On reports: “According to a survey by iSHARE, 91.0% of Japanese mobile phone users are not planning to purchase Apple Inc’s “iPhone” mobile phone. This research was conducted in the wake of the […]

Six Apart, creators of Movable Type, today introduced a free web application, Blog It for iPhone Powered by TypePad. Built specifically for iPhone’s Safari browser, Blog It for iPhone is designed to let you post blog entries or status updates, from wherever you are, to more than a dozen different online services. Blog It for […]