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One side effect of having a glut of applications is that the iPhone is beginning to infringe on the territory of other devices. Such is the case with iPhone eBook application Stanza, which, a recent Forbes article suggests, may be more popular for occasional eBook reading than single-purpose devices like the Amazon Kindle or Sony Reader.

A new application, called Scoop, has been released in the iPhone App store for the rock-bottom price of $0.99. Scoop is virtually a clone of the web-based DIGG application (read after the fold for quick review). In fact, it uses DIGG’s API for all of its data. And therein lies the problem. Based on Digg’s API License Agreement, access to their API

The latest iPhone 2.2 firmware has one hidden feature that should please Japanese iPhone customers: the inclusion of 461 emoji characters. Emoji are picture characters that are very popular in the Japanese mobile market. One analyst even specifically cited the lack Emoji support as one of the…

Apple co-founder, CEO and man-who-can-do-no-wrong-for-the-moment Steve Jobs (left) introduced new versions of every product in the company’s iPod music and video line, including a new iPhone-like touchscreen music and video player that has a full Internet browser and the capacity to download music.

They say you get what you pay for. Unfortunately, even with the second release of the Audi A4 Driving Challenge for your iPhone or iPod Touch, the price tag is still fairly representative of the quality of the game.

Make VOIP calls from your iPhone and iPod Touch using Fring. Fring is available from the app store

(un)Official Apple IPhone Developer Forum emerges in response to Apple’s recent SDK NDA dissolution. Developers converge to share and collaborate in the fastest growing IPhone SDK Forum on the web.

A new tool called iPhone Backgrounder is now available for jailbroken phones which allows you to run official App Store apps in the background. The timely release comes just as Apple’s missed the September deadline for background push notifications.

I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve been dieing for some VoIP Skype on my iPhone. Surprisingly, the company has yet to launch an iPhone app. Fortunately, an app called Fring emerged today, which includes all the popular IM applications including Twitter, and you guessed it, Skype and it allows VoIP calls!

A US federal judge has shut down some attempts by Apple and AT&T to dismiss a class action lawsuit that accuses the two of violating antitrust law with their iPhone exclusivity agreement, pushing the complaint closer to a possible trial.

A US federal judge has shut down some attempts by Apple and AT&T to dismiss a class action lawsuit that accuses the two of violating antitrust law with their iPhone exclusivity agreement, pushing the complaint closer to a possible trial.

Fring allows you to chat and interact with others on a variety of networks including Skype, MSN, GoogleTalk, AIM, Yahoo, Twitter, ICQ. In addition, Fring offers voice over ip (VoIP) using the iPhone’s WiFi connec

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Apple was supposed to have the Push Notification service in place in September, but September has passed and there is no fix in sight. Hopefully it will come out soon because, for businesses, developers, and people addicted to instant-everything, at this point the iPhone is not the solution they were looking for.

One unpublicized feature introduced by Apple’s latest iPhone software updates is the ability save Web apps to the home screen and have them launch in full-screen mode without the Safari wrapper, essentially mimicking the experience of a native app.

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About half of National Public Radio’s mobile visitors (about 700,000 to 800,000 per month) use iPhones, writes American Journalism Review. NPR Mobile, on the iPhone, provides new user-friendly options for listeners.

This normally peaceful suburban town is still reeling following the news Monday that a local resident, whose name is being withheld by police pending a full investigation, left an iPhone unattended for more than three hours in a car parked in the hot sun.

This normally peaceful suburban town is still reeling following the news Monday that a local resident, whose name is being withheld by police pending a full investigation, left an iPhone unattended for more than three hours in a car parked in the hot sun.

Apple Inc. will no longer force iPhone software developers to sign a nondisclosure agreement that many had said was hampering their ability to work.

This easy-to-follow video tutorial from CNET explains how to create iPhone ringtones using just the iTunes software – the steps stay the same for both Mac and Windows computers.

Apple has missed a self-imposed deadline for bringing background-processing capabilities–of sorts–to the iPhone.

The Ultimate battle of the touchscreens

t’s official: The iPhone is more popular than Amazon.com’s Kindle. And not just in the obvious categories like listening to music, browsing the Web or the other applications where Kindle barely competes. Now, the iPhone is also muscling into Amazon’s home turf: reading books.

Google unveiled the first Android-powered cell phone last week, a T-Mobile-branded device dubbed the G1. Comparisons to Apple’s iPhone were immediate — and that is a good thing for Android, when you consider what a raucous and contentious week it was for iPhone developers.

The Obama ‘08 iPhone app is, almost surprisingly, not a cheap sticker masquerading as an application. No, it’s actually a glimpse of the potential of grassroots politics and gadgets, distilled in a slick, blue-stained little app that couldn’t possibly have come out of the McCain campaign (no offense guys).

Thanks Google for putting up your 2001 search index because otherwise we wouldn’t have found the true iPhone, a forgotten gem from the last century. Back then it wasn’t made by Apple, but with its 56K Built-In Modem, high resolution display, qwerty keyboard and 800-entry address book, it got a Best of CES award and provoked exactly the same reactio

Do you still think iPhone is a savvy and cool uber gizmo. But that’s not tur its lack several sought after feature which are fulfilled by the main competitor Instinct. Read out the full story for details.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Nintendo Co Ltd will launch a DS machine that can take pictures and play music, hoping to cement its lead over Sony’s PlayStation and encroach into the territory of Apple Inc’s iPod and iPhone.

Tell iPhone users to visit http://www.barackobama.com/iphone and download the Obama ‘08 free application. Use it to organize your contacts and make calls into key battleground states.

Boasting many of the iPhone’s features, the 5800 XpressMusic handset targets the young by offering a year’s worth of free music downloads.

Perchè dovrei comprare un iPhone, anche essendo un Geek, e proprio per ciò con il desiderio di evolvermi tecnologicamente? Questo il mio pensiero! Parola di Valerio Villari!

The number of people who use their phones to cruise the Web is surging worldwide, with the figure in the U.S. rising 36% over the past year, to 40 million. It’s easy to forget with all the euphoria surrounding the iPhone. Nokia is still far and away the biggest and most influential player in this industry.

The 5800 XpressMusic touchscreen phone could be considered the first serious rival for the iPhone and it seems that Nokia may be trying to beat Apple at its own game: Take the fest features of your competitor, fix the most obvious mistakes and wrap the whole product in a stylish package. Is Apple falling behind?

The chief executive of Nokia (NOK1V.HE: Quote, Profile, Research), the world mobile phone leader, gave credit to new competitors from the computer world on Wednesday, but said his company was set to respond to all challengers.

Apple’s exclusive iPhone wireless carrier AT&T said this week it’s in no hurry to begin deploying a fourth-generation wireless network, as it believes there’s two to three years of “runway” left in its current and future 3G technologies.

Nokia today at a special event launched the 5800 XpressMusic, the company’s very first touchscreen phone and the company’s only close competitior to the iPhone. The handset carries an extremely sharp 640×360, 3.2-inch haptic display, 3G, GPS and Wi-Fi — but it won’t reach the US until sometime in 2009.

Nokia 5800 tube is released into the world. Check the features and pics of the touchscreen Symbian based phone. It’s known to be the iPhone killer mobile, with 3.2 inch screen, 3.2 MP camera and first time a touchscreen mobile on Symbian S60 platform.

Two trends in cellphones are combining to create a new security risk. On the one hand they are becoming more powerful, and more like computers. On the other, they are universally relied upon.

Nokia has finally unveiled its first touch screen Symbian S60 device, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. Earlier everybody thought that this mobile phone was supposed to be XpressMedia Nokia 5800. But now Nokia has given this device a name that will prevail, Nokia 5800. This new Nokia touch screen device will come up with two configurations one for the Eu