Apple/Macintosh News

Strong sales of Macs and iPhones boosted Apple's earnings for the third quarter of 2008.

Apple appears to be having trouble keeping its new iPhone 3G in stock in the U.S., as reports suggest few phones were available in Apple's stores.

InformationWeek - The hacker group's PwnageTool 2.0 software allows iPhone users to load non-Apple-approved applications on their handsets.

Pent-up demand for the iPhone 3G is manifesting itself on auction site eBay.

It's true that Asian cellphones often get the newest features long before their North American counterparts, but the latest Japanese version of the iPhone 3G has something that hopefully won't be deemed necessary any time in the near future.

Apple recorded another record quarter in terms of Macintosh sales, but analysts attending Apple's announcement were concerned about a new product to be announced that will apparently hurt Apple's margins.

DENVER (Billboard) - When it was unveiled in June, Apple's new iPhone didn't appear to offer anything new for music fans. But thanks to the subsequent launch of the App Store on iTunes, iPhone users can download a host of applications to add new functions to the device. Many of them are music-oriented and all are made specifically for the iPhone.

BANGALORE (Reuters) - Industry and investor concerns about the health of Apple Inc's Chief Executive Steve Jobs have not dimmed more than a month after he appeared dramatically thinner at the firm's annual developers' conference, The New York Post said on Monday.

Apple on Monday posted a profit of $1.07 billion on revenue of $7.46 billion for its fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2008, making it the best June quarter in the company's history in both revenue and earnings. In a statement, Apple CEO Steve Jobs also indicated that the company is preparing several other products for release in the coming months, which will help future quarters.

InformationWeek - Apple's iPhone 3G may be hogging the headlines, but there is a slew of other smartphones from HTC, Samsung, RIM, Nokia, LG, and GPS-maker Garmin, that can offer the same, if not better features.

zCover on Friday announced that it is shipping its iSAglove 3G cover for the iPhone. It costs $29.99 and joins zCover's line of iPhone accessories.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Motorola Inc has sued a former executive for allegedly violating a non-compete agreement and threatening to reveal its trade secrets by taking a job with Apple Inc's iPhone division, the cell phone maker said in a lawsuit.

Motorola is suing a former executive now employed by Apple's iPhone sales division, charging him with the theft of trade secrets.

Oops, again. AT&T once more announced free hotspot access for iPhone owners early Friday on its Web site, but then quickly removed the posting. The exclusive carrier for Apple's iPhone made a similar blunder in May.

InformationWeek - Saying Apple wasn't prepared for the demand, a Piper Jaffray analyst predicts iPhone 3G shortages for two to four weeks.

InformationWeek - Google executives reportedly said the company was making its own branded mobile phone to compete with Apple's iPhone.

After previous misfires, we probably should have just assumed that this morning's promise of free Wi-Fi for iPhone users was just too good to be true. It was.

Samson Technologies has introduced the StudioDock 3i, a set of studio monitor speakers with a dock connector and USB interface. The StudioDock 3i costs $149 per pair.

Some are useful. Many frivolous. A bunch will waste your time. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Bottom line: The App Store turns the iPhone into an important new computing platform.

Smartphones like the iPhone are the next major computing platform. But who will standardize the market?

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Enthusiastic new iPhone owners are starting to sound like the cast of long-running stage musical: "I Love you, You're Perfect, Now Change."

Apple's new iPhone App Store already has customers talking and picking their favorites -- and bad-mouthing others. Earlier this week, Apple reported that App Store downloads exceeded 10 million in the first weekend. It said the store had more than 800 native applications, of which 200 were free and more than 90 percent were less than $10.

A new open source project allows computer users to add surreptitious location tracking to their systems. Windows, Mac and Linux versions are available.

Readers discuss the pros and cons of Apple's iPhone 3G, and gush over their favorite PC keyboards.

Apple has toppled Acer to become the third largest PC vendor in the U.S., according to a survey from Gartner.

InformationWeek - A group in Brazil has unlocked the phone to run on other carriers' networks, and a hacker team has enabled independent apps to run on Apple's latest handset.

Apple Computer again cracked the top three in U.S. PC sales for the second quarter, according to surveys released Wednesday by both Gartner and IDC.

Macintosh clone maker Psystar is feeling the heat. In a suit filed in the U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco on July 3, Apple Computer asked the court to "[require] Psystar to recall all such products sold to the public as a result of Psystar's infringement of Apple's copyrights."

InformationWeek - Obsessed users are sure to spot even minor imperfections, but the wide spectrum of problems suggests Apple may have quality control issues with its newest gadget.

TOKYO - Kentaro Tohyama is proud of his new iPhone. He stood overnight in line to get it when the device became available in Japan for the first time. But the 29-year-old computer engineer isn't about to part with his made-in-Japan cell phone either.