Can’t afford an iPhone? Then get your mom to knit one! That’s what Greg at daddytypes.com did: My mom was insanely cool even before she knitted an iPhone. Last week, as the hype was peaking, I braced for reports of kids across the country grabbing for their parents’ new iPhones; it was a drool-soaked disaster […]

Coders are meeting this¬†weekend in San Francisco for the first-ever iPhone Developers Camp, a Barcamp-style unconference to learn about iPhone development. “It’s going to be the largest gathering of iPhone owners–we’ll probably have at least 150 iPhones in the same room,” promises event organizer Raven Zachary. “The Friday after the WWDC [Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference], […]

It’s beginning to look like the cell phone industry may be iPwned by Apple’s iPhone: iPhone reviews¬†have been nearly universally glowing. Other cell phone introductions, which might have generated some buzz a short time ago, are suffering in comparison to Apple’s new mobile phone. Unofficial reports put iPhone sales at over one million in less […]

The Open Mobile Video Coalition has issued an open letter to technology companies urging them to adopt a single standard for digital TV signals for cell phones, PDAs and other mobile devices. The coalition is made up of mainstream broadcasters, including Fox, Gannett, Telemundo, NBC, Tribune and others. The current terrestrial digital TV system was […]

LG Electronics and YouTube jointly¬†announced today an agreement to provide YouTube services on LG handsets. The agreement promises to let users not only view videos on the phones, as on Apple’s new iPhone, but to shoot and upload videos directly to YouTube. For upcoming YouTube-enabled handsets, LG will introduce a new user interface for accessing […]

Apple has run out of iPhones at more than half its stores less than a week after introducing the combination iPod music player and handset in the U.S. AT&T has also sold out of the phone in almost all its 1,800 stores. Buyers emptied Apple stores in 10 states, with 95 of 164 stores reporting […]