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Sun Microsystems is known for many things, but it is probably best known for Java. The promise of Java is that programmers can write an application once and run it on any machine, or device, that has a Java Virtual Machine (a virtual environment that runs on a computer which includes the Java runtime, so […]

The Google Phone has arrived, sort of, but not in the long-rumored embodiment that many had expected. Google announced this morning that it has developed a new mobile OS called “Android”—a result of its acquisition of a mobile software company of the same name in 2005—that will allow the company to get Google’s mobile apps […]

When our friends at Engadget.com first got our hands on the UK iPhone back in September, it was already running the 1.1.1 firmware. The same firmware which helpfully bricked a number of hacked iPhones Stateside upon later release. Now T3 is claiming that the UK iPhone — set for release on November 9th — is […]

AT&T on Friday launched an international plan for the iPhone, offering users who travel overseas frequently some relief from expensive roaming charges that have led to at least one lawsuit against iPhone maker Apple. The plan gives iPhone users 50 Mbytes of data per month to browse the Web, check e-mail, and access other information […]

The phone company said yesterday that its third-quarter net income rose 41 percent as the cellphone helped bring in new customers. AT&T’s wireless unit added two million subscribers in the third quarter, an increase of 47 percent, for a total of 65.7 million subscriptions. The wireless growth offset a 4.7 percent loss of the San […]

LONDON — The U.K.’s largest mobile phone operator by subscribers, Telefonica SA’s O2 unit, has been awarded exclusive rights to sell the iPhone, which combines a mobile phone, alongside an iPod music and video player and Internet browsing. It will begin selling on Nov. 9 for £269 ($536). The multiyear deal, announced Tuesday by […]

 
As we’ve been following in our previous post on the topic, earlier this afternoon iUnlock, the first free, open source iPhone SIM unlock app, was released to the underground just 74 days after the iPhone’s release. Developed by the iPhone Dev Team, it’s not (yet) for the faint of heart and it takes a little […]

SAN FRANCISCO–September 5, 2007–Apple® today announced that it is on track to sell its one millionth iPhone™ before the end of September, and to make iPhone affordable for even more customers this holiday season, it is lowering the price of the most popular iPhone model with 8GB of storage from $599 to just $399.
“The surveys […]

O2 has beaten its rivals to win the exclusive UK rights to offer Apple’s iPhone. The tie-up, the mobile phone industry’s most sought-after deal in years, marks a major coup for the 18 million-customer group. The final contract is expected to be signed imminently. The phone, which should be on sale in time for Christmas, […]

CEO Steve Jobs announced during his keynote address at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco that developers of third-party applications will be able to create Web applications for the iPhone using Safari, Apple’s Web browser.
This gives developers the chance to create iPhone applications using common Web development standards such as Ajax ahead of the […]