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 […]

According to a new survey, the average teenager’s iPod has about $800 of pirated music on it: On average every iPod or digital music player contained 842 illegally copied songs. The proportion of illegally downloaded tracks rises to 61 per cent among 14 to 17-year-olds. In addition, 14 per cent of CDs (one in seven) […]

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 […]

Live webcasting startup Flixwagon announced today that it was testing live “high-quality” video streaming from unlocked iPhones to the web, using Flixwagon’s alpha client. Here’s Flixwagon’s announcement: While we don’t condone or recommend unlocking iPhones, as avid iPhone users ourselves we wanted to experiment with ways to enable flixwagon on the iPhone, until the official SDK […]

While the Steve Jobs keynote at the WWDC was underwhelming to many, there’s been a lot of interesting related news that’s come out in the last two days: Most iPhone apps are going to be free – Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, took some time Monday following Steve Jobs’s opening keynote to chat with 20 Apple […]

The Apple Keynotes podcast offers video of the company’s most important announcements, including CEO Steve Jobs keynotes. It hasn’t been updated with today’s keynote yet, but it has the last two Macworld keynotes & the March 6 iPhone Software Roadmap event.

Apple today killed off its much-maligned .Mac service and introduced MobileMe, a service that delivers push email, push contacts and push calendars from the MobileMe service in the cloud to native applications on iPhone, iPod touch, Macs and PCs. In a nutshell, your apps will automatically get synced, via MobileMe, so that your desktop, laptop, […]

Apple today updated the iPhone, introducing the iPhone 3G. The iPhone 3G is an evolutionary, rather than revolutionary update. The phone’s network speed is about twice as fast, at least where AT&T has coverage, and Apple has added GPS positioning. Apple has also added Exchange support, to attract business users. On the downside, Apple has […]

Startup software developer Plum Amazing has announced that Plum Record for the iPhone will be available as soon as the iTunes AppStore comes online. Apple hasn’t made an official announcement on this when the AppStore will be available, but it’s expected to open next week. Plum Record is an audio recording application for the iPhone. While […]

One of the stranger iPod accessories we’ve ever seen that still manages to have some practical use is the RadioRaft floating stereo. It’s a completely submersible iPod dock and stereo system. Your iPod goes inside a waterproof iPod dock, and you control the sound using waterproof controls. The system has 400 watts, 5 speakers and […]