A joke about the iPhone lasted barely 15 seconds on last week's Saturday Night Live TV show. But it generated substantial buzz in the technology world, touching a raw nerve about the Apple handset's connectivity as provided by AT&T. Full Story »
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Full Story »
Apple's iPhone was the most popular U.S. mobile device in 2009, followed by the BlackBerry 8300 series, but despite all the new smartphones flooding the market, Motorola's trusty Razr flip-phone was still the third most-popular phone of the year. Full Story »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - IPhone app developer Tapulous says its sales have approached $1 million a month, providing fresh evidence of the growing success of start-ups designing programs for Apple Inc's mobile device. Full Story »
Operation Chokehold, the coordinated attack on AT&T's wireless network, was both a success and failure on Friday. The success was in further highlighting the complaints of iPhone users against the carrier; the failure was that it didn't appear to have much effect on the AT&T network. Full Story »
Widespread reports that the iPhone has grabbed a dominant market share position in Japan may be a bit premature. Full Story »
Is the end in sight for Windows Mobile? A number of recent surveys show that market penetration for Microsoft's mobile platform is stagnant, even as support for Apple's iPhone, Research in Motion's BlackBerry, and mobile devices based on Google's Android are growing by leaps and bounds. Full Story »
Apple's iPhone isn't only gaining fast on the company's U.S. turf, but sweeping across the international market at an amazing pace, according to the monthly Mobile Metrics report from mobile advertising network AdMob on Friday. The application-rich and user-friendly handset gained an astonishing 350 percent in market share in Japan this year and 300 percent in France. Full Story »
Regardless of the results of Operation Chokehold -- blogger Fake Steve Jobs' call to overwhelm AT&T's wireless network at Friday afternoon -- the point has been made, at least according to the site that spearheaded the effort. Reports on The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs blog and at the Operation Chokehold Facebook page reported some slowdowns, but they weren't overwhelming and couldn't be attributed to the protest. Full Story »
San Francisco - What's on your holiday gift list? If you said a Google Phone or a 27-inch iMac, you may have to wait 'til next year (or longer). Still, there's plenty of holiday cheer to go around. Full Story »
We’ve all experienced some form of holiday shopping panic: “There’s only of months/days/hours left before Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa! What am I going to do?” Well, Macworld's here to help with the Mac lover in your life. We’ve polled our staff of contributors to get their ideas for gifts that you can, if necessary, pull out of your festive hat at the last minute with a minimum of fuss (and muss). Full Story »
Verizon Wireless is gearing up to launch the Palm Pre early next year and is also making upgrades to its network to accommodate the Apple iPhone, according to reports today. Full Story »
You would be right in many ways if you said that Twitter clients figuratively cost ten cents for every twelve apps you can round up. They typically compete in terms of redesigning the Twitter experience instead of bringing new features to it. Kiwi 1.0 from YourHead, however, is one of those rare standouts that deserves to be on the premium shelf. Full Story »
In a one-two punch for iPhone voice-recognition apps, Nuance Communications has issued Dragon Search, a speech-to-search app that follows the company's recent release of Dragon Dictation, a voice-dictation tool. Full Story »
Synology has released the DiskStation DS210j, a network-attached storage (NAS) device for storing your photos, videos, music, and other files. The DS210j can also be used with Mac OS X’s Time Machine. Full Story »
The iPhone has leapfrogged Windows Mobile to jump into the number two position for smartphone platforms in the United States. That news could be the straw that breaks the proverbial camel's back for the floundering Windows Mobile operating system. Full Story »
Windows Mobile market share is falling around the world. Six months after the original iPhone launched in mid 2007, it had already surpassed Windows Mobile in worldwide browser share. Now Microsoft's U.S. stronghold is gone, too. Full Story »
Suppose someone tried to shut down AT&T's wireless network tomorrow at Noon and nothing happened? Besides in New York and San Francisco, that is the likely outcome of Dan Lyons' urging his blog readers to use so much iPhone data that the carrier becomes blocked during midday tomorrow. Full Story »
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