iPhone News Desk

Of the nearly 1.4 million iPhones sold since it was introduced in June, an estimated 250,000 of them were purchased by people trying to unlock them so that they can use the iPhone on a cell phone carrier other than Apple's dedicated partner, AT&T. This admission came yesterday fr... (more)
SYS-CON.com Newsflash: Virgin Mobile USA, Inc. announced today that its initial public offering of 27,500,000 shares of Class A common stock has been priced at $15.00 per share. The shares are expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange today, October 11, under the s... (more)
The Apple iPhone, which has already come under intense criticism for failing to allow third-party programs and for its incompatibility with the Flash and Java platforms, has a new challange to overcome in the form of a class-action lawsuit filed against it by a California residen... (more)
A vast majority of users of Blackberry, Blackjack, Pearl, Nokia, Treo, LG, Motorola Q, iPhone and all smartphones say they now use them solely for e-mail and text messaging with an occasional disappointing peak at the web. This failure is largely due to the hassle of typing lengt... (more)
 AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West, which will take place September 23-26, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California, will present a session by Dylan Schiemann entitled: "Dojo on the iPhone." Click here to register for the conference Click here to submit ... (more)
SoonR announced the SoonR mobile AJAX-enabled interface supports accessing files and applications including mail on a Mac or PC from Apple’s iPhone. “Our vision of the future of mobile applications really shines with SoonR on the iPhone,” said Martin Frid-Nielse... (more)
Etelos announces a new way for people to access their Customer Relationship Management System - through their iPhone. "Etelos CRM works great on the iPhone" Etelos CEO Danny Kolke said. "It allows you to get access to your tasks, projects, appointments or any of your other busine... (more)
So the rumors were right. Apple has delayed the launch of Leopard, its next-generation Mac OS X, a competitor of Microsoft Windows, until October, four months past its June 11 due date. In a statement issued late Thursday after the market closed Apple blamed it on the iPhone. En... (more)
Funambol, the mobile open source software company, will begin inviting consumers to join the new myFUNAMBOL portal to access free mobile e-mail, contacts, and calendars on everyday cell phones. myFUNAMBOL also provides the first over-the-air mobile contacts application for the ne... (more)
AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West, which will take place September 23-26, 2007, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California, will introduce a new dedicated track for iPhone AJAX developers. Apple's iPhone has been one of the most eagerly awaited consumer e... (more)
Synchronoss Technologies, Inc., a provider of on-demand transaction management software to Tier One communications service providers (CSPs), has announced a multi-year contract with AT&T to support the launch and ongoing operational support of the Apple iPhone. Synchronoss manage... (more)
Zoho went live with iZoho, which provides iPhone-optimized access to Zoho’s online office applications. iPhone users who visit www.izoho.com can view Zoho Writer documents, Zoho Sheet spreadsheets, and  Zoho Show presentations – and edit Zoho Writer documents – ... (more)
Apple has got itself a couple of pretty, sexily anorexic, redesigned aluminum and glass 20- and 24-inch all-in-one iMac desktops available with a wireless keyboard. They're easier to recycle and priced competitively at $1,199 and $1,799 to start, $200-$300 cheaper than their pred... (more)
Asked at the end of his keynote address on Day Three of AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California yesterday what he thought of the fact that Java doesn't run on the Apple iPhone, Robert Brewin - Sun's CTO and VP of Software - replied... (more)
Wireless carriers O2 in the UK, Orange in France and T-Mobile in Germany are going to handle the iPhone in Europe under unusual 10% revenue-sharing arrangements with Apple, according to a story in the German edition of the Financial Times. Paris Match then waded quoting Orange ow... (more)
A study of the iPhone UI and rebuilding it in AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) using Adobe Flex 3. AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) is a cross-operating system runtime that allows developers to use their existing web development skills to build and deploy Rich Internet Applications t... (more)
The introduction of the iPhone was marked by huge publicity and the scrambling of all sorts of web services to roll out support for the unique features of the iPhone. The breakthrough browser in the iPhone provides the best mobile browsing experience to date. Not only does it sup... (more)
"Phones should be open to anything," claims a flyer being distributed by Apple in the wake of Sun's recent claim about Apple: "Fundamentally, they don't like open systems." "The best devices have no limits," the flyer - found on 2nd avenue in New York City and promptly posted on ... (more)
Elias Corporation has launched Applists.com version 2.0. Version 1.0 was released on July 18, 2007. “Our goal is to get great apps into the hands of iPhone and iPod Touch owners the instant they need them, and to do so in the easiest, most intuitive, and respectful way poss... (more)
SYS-CON Media has launched two new developer titles – iPhone Developer's Journal and Silverlight Developer’s Journal. Silverlight Developer’s Journal is an online journal with quarterly print editions. Jesse Liberty, senior program manager in the Silverlight ... (more)
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