Apple appears to have opened a veritable Pantera’s box with its decision to fight hackers with an update that could turn your iPhone into an iBrick. We tested the update and it worked perfectly on an unhacked, locked iPhone. The update adds several great new features, including the iTunes WiFi store, which is more useful […]

Sun is calling out Apple for it’s decision to leave Java off of the iPhone. Apple’s stance was called a mistake by a Sun Microsystems executive Wednesday at the AJAXWorld conference in Santa Clara. “I think it’s a mistake. I think it would provide a lot more flexibility in applications being developed,” for the iPhone, […]

Apple today released a statement warning buyers against unlocking their iPhones: Apple has discovered that many of the unauthorized iPhone unlocking programs available on the Internet cause irreparable damage to the iPhone’s software, which will likely result in the modified iPhone becoming permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iPhone software update is installed.¬† Apple plans […]

It looks like Apple’s controversial iPhone price cuts have turned the phone and portable media player into a hit: iPhone carrier AT&T said sales of the iPhone have increased since Apple announced the price cuts. “The price cuts are going to help us,” said AT&T’s Ralph de la Vega. “We see a very significant uptake […]

Apple and T-Mobile today announced that T-Mobile will be the exclusive carrier of the iPhone when it makes its debut in Germany on November 9. The iPhone is scheduled to go on sale on November 9 and will be sold in Germany through Telekom Shops of Deutsche Telekom and the T-Mobile web shop. The phone […]

Apple and O2 announced today that the iPhone – aka the “Jesus phone” – will debut in the UK November 9th. O2 will be the exclusive UK carrier for the iPhone. Unique to the UK, iPhone users will have free access to the UK‚Äôs largest single public Wi-Fi network, covering over 7,500 cafes, restaurants, airport […]

Troubled free music site SpiralFrog made its debut today, after months of delays and management changes. The site, which lets visitors download music and videos free of charge, hopes to find success with a business model based on offering DRM’d music to users via an ad-supported site. “We believe it will be a very powerful […]

Here‚Äôs a roundup of portable media news for Sept. 17th: EMusic offering MP3 audiobooks – eMusic is offering more than a thousand books for download, with many of them cheaper than on iTunes. For example, ‚ÄúThe Audacity of Hope,‚Äù read by author Barack Obama, will cost $9.99 on eMusic compared with $18.95 on iTunes. This […]

Since the introduction of the iPhone, we’ve been lamenting the fact that Apple has left its √ºber-phone out of the revolution in user-generated content: User-generated media is one of the biggest trends on the Internet. So why isn‚Äôt there a keyboard accessory for these devices, so people could use them to edit their blogs? Why […]

Apple announced this morning that it sold its one millionth iPhone yesterday, two and a half months after its introduction on June 29. ‚ÄúOne million iPhones in 74 days‚Äîit took almost two years to achieve this milestone with iPod,‚Äù said Steve Jobs, Apple‚Äôs CEO. ‚ÄúWe can‚Äôt wait to get this revolutionary product into the hands […]