College handing out iPhones to freshmen

Abilene Christian University will be delivering an Apple iPhone or iPod Touch to all members of its incoming class in 2008. Freshmen will use the iPhones or iPod Touches to receive homework alerts, an...

TalkShoe chat comes to Apple’s iPhone

Community chat service TalkShoe has come to iPhone, bringing live phone calls together with online chat. The service presents users with a Web-based interface to host live discussions, according to Ya...

iBank 3 adds iPhone, Leopard support, more

IGG Software today released iBank 3, a major update to its financial management application, adding support for the iPhone and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard technologies. iBank for iPhone is a web-based iPhon...

Encyclopedia Britannica comes to iPhone

Brittannica engineers have released an application for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch that brings thousands of articles covering all subjects at i.eb.com to the portable devices. The application boasts...

Nuvio sues Garmin over Nuviphone trademark

Garmin's Nuviphone is emulating the iPhone in more than just functionality, as business phone service provider Nuvio confronts the GPS Company with a lawsuit over trademark infringement. In a move tha...

Jailbreak for iPhone 1.1.4 released

Hackers on Wednesday released the first publicly available "jailbreak" solution for version 1.1.4 of the iPhone software. A little more than 24 hours after the release of Apple's latest iPhone softwar...

O2: iPhone fastest selling, highest satisfaction

O2 today revealed that the iPhone is its fasting selling device for the UK, noting that the device has helped it achieve 9.5-percent revenue growth during the final quarter for 2007. While O2 did not ...

iPhone mod adds haptic feedback when typing

In an effort to make typing on the iPhone more familiar, the University of Glasgow has unveiled a hack that provides vibration feedback when a virtual key is pressed, simulating the effect of typing o...

O2 rises on iPhone-driven profits

The UK division of O2 is growing primarily on iPhone sales, new data indicates. While the company is still reticent to disclose just how many iPhones it has sold since the November 9th launch, it wil...

AUO to produce cheap iPhone touchscreens?

Taiwan display specialist AU Optronics may have developed an inexpensive touchscreen technology that could drive down the price of the iPhone as well as other smartphones and similar devices, says a c...