Apple reports that the Worldwide Developers Confrence slated for early June will be hosted by “A team of Apple executives, led by Philip Schiller”, and that means that Steve Jobs will not return from his medical leave to kick off this much-anticipated event.

In their press release they also said they would be discussing the new Snow Leopard and iPhone 3.0 operating systems, without a whisper of any new iPhone technical upgrades. Of course, … Read More

MU Journalism applicants won’t have to worry about trying to justify buying a new iPhone (or iPod Touch) for their new semester of school, the associate dean of the school Brian Brooks, as done that for them.

Now considered a necessity by this school official, he explains that these gadgets are specifically helpful for education in this article from Columbia Missourian.

“Lectures are the worst possible learning format,” Brooks said. “There’s … Read More

During the newest beta release to developers Apple has instructed that all iPhone Apps, new and current, now need to be compliant with the new 3.0 firmware due out this summer, even though it is still in Beta.

“Beginning today, all submissions to the App Store will be reviewed on the latest beta of iPhone OS 3.0. If your app submission is not compatible with iPhone OS 3.0, it will not … Read More

The seemingly random acceptance of some, but not other Apps is a constant source head-scratching ponderings for lots of App Developers. It seems that there is no definitive reasoning behind why some Apps get approved, and others slip through the cracks.

Alkalai Media documented on their blog the recent submission (and subsequent re-submissions) of their app of funny slightly vulgar sound effects, called “CrudeBox”, to the App Store. It was … Read More

Users of BluWiki have been discussing an open-source alternative for iTunes for a while now, and have received take down notices by Apple demanding they stop the discussion. It seems that Apple is none to pleased about users possibly using something other than iTunes with their iPhones and iPods.

The EFF and Odioworks have filed a lawsuit against them, citing that it’s not illegal to reverse engineer a product and generate … Read More

Amazon has tightened it’s grip in the eBook market this week by aquiring Stanza, the popular iPhone App from Lexcycle.

Obviously Amazon is wanting to gain eBook customers among the millions of iPhone  users that have already begun to see the iPhone as a superior eBook reader to Amazon’s own Kindle. Lexcycle’s Stanza is one of the most popular iPhone Apps with reportedly over a million downloads and around 100,000 eBooks … Read More

Firstly I want to congratulate Shelfish for commenting on the post, and to Richard Smith for tweeting me, you’ve each won a pair of Acoustibuds! I’ll contact you shorty to get your shipping details.

Now, because you can never have too many Twitter Apps, I’m here to tell you about another one. Now, it’s no where near the leagues of Tweetie or TwitterFon, but does one thing really, really well. Direct … Read More

So, maybe you didn’t win the Scosche Headphones, and maybe you really, really want a pair of in-ear buds but you don’t have  $30-$200 to drop right at the moment. Maybe you’re like me and cannot, possibly abide regular ear buds because of your tiny oddly shaped ears (TMI?) and they just don’t fit right, ever. In any/all of these cases, I have great news for you, Acoustibuds exist!

Small … Read More

Everyone knows how much I love Google, and mostly that is because they often give extra special attention to iPhone users, with lots of their services being Optimized for the iPhone. (Except when it comes to Google Latitude – coming soon to iPhone indeed!).

In fact, Google launched a specific Gmail interface just for iPhone users back in January 2008 (which somehow we missed to report because we were too … Read More

I was talking to a coworker about how much fun Apps are on my iPhone, and showing her a few of my choice favorites. She was coming up with fun ideas of her own “there should be an App for drinks!” she said, and my jaw dropped. I had just read one day previous about how Cocktails+ has a one-week limited sale of it’s App being free, so I thought … Read More