iLive has announced the formation of its Studio Series business line, designed to fill the growing need for high-end iPod accessories and peripherals. The Studio Series includes the iHT8817DT DVD Home Theater System with 5.1 surround sound, an on-board slot-loading HDMI DVD player and a motorized iPod docking drawer. This fully self-contained home theater system […]

AT&T & LG Electronics have announced a new phone, the trax, that gives users access to subscription music services such as Napster and eMusic. The phone offers an alternative to the computer-centric approach championed by Apple with its iPhone/iTunes offering. The trax is a multipurpose clamshell-shaped phone that connects to AT&T’s 3G UMTS/HSDPA network. Besides […]

The Financial Aid Podcast’s Christopher Penn has released a free .php script, the Podcaster iPhone Kit, that can be used to generate an iPhone-friendly page for your podcast. Here’s how Penn describes the script: This simple little web page parses your podcast’s XML feed and slaps it into a nice page designed to render well […]

A developer, not satisfied with using his iPhone for podcasts, video podcasts, YouTube videos and phone calls, has ported the InfoNES core to the iPhone, along with Mario, Zelda, and other NES roms. While it demonstrates the¬†computing and gaming capabilities of the iPhone,¬†even the developer¬†admits that the use of virtual controllers for gaming “…while cute, […]

There are a few undocumented changes to the iPhone’s features hidden in the device’s recent update: In the Favorites list in the Phone module, the iPhone‚Äôs equivalent of a speed-dial list, you can now have 50 entries instead of 20. In the email module, you can now automatically BCC yourself on every message you send, […]

According to ChangeWave’s July 18-20 consumer cell phone survey, Apple’s Internet-media saavy iPhone is changing the game within the telecom industry. Even though it’s been on the market just a month, the Apple iPhone is already registering in ChangeWave’s survey results. Among respondents who say they plan to buy a cell phone in the next […]

Research firm Forrester has released a new report looking at the state of the “mobile web” – custom web sites developed for cell phones – and says the iPhone will put the slimmed-down mobile sites out of their misery. According to Forrester’s Vidya Lakshmipathy: On June 29, 2007, Apple released the highly anticipated iPhone to […]

“A high-end cell phone shouldn’t have to have low-end customer service,” says Mindy Bockstein, chairwoman and executive director of the¬†New York’s¬†Consumer Protection Board. The Board announced complaints against Apple, echoing an iPhone¬†lawsuit filed recently by an Illinois man. The iPhone’s battery must be replaced by Apple when the battery no longer holds a charge. Apple […]

An Oakbrook, Illinois man is suing Apple and AT&T over the planned obsolescence of the iPhone’s battery, which is designed to rechargeable to full capacity 300-400 times. According to the suit: The battery enclosed in the iPhone can only be charged approximately 300 times before it will be in need of replacement, necessitating a new […]

iPhone hackers are buzy trying to free up some of the capabilities of the iPhone. One of the most interesting projects developed so far is srelay, a SOCKS proxy server.¬†¬† srelay running on your iPhone turns it into a gateway that you can use to connect your laptop to the Internet using the iPhone’s EDGE […]