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[Feature] SMS Popup Messages Lead to Ruined Birthday Party; Angry Boss and Pissed Off Girlfriend

This past weekend, we had the privilege of hearing one of the most hilariously unfortunate iPhone stories we’ve ever heard. I know what you’re thinking, some sort of hardware issue, bad reception or an iPhone 3G problem, but no. Far worse, this story revolves around the tiny little SMS bubble that pops up when [...]

Eight Idiots Actually Bought That $1000 iPhone App

An iPhone application, costing down-loaders $999.99, has recently vanished from the Apple App Store, reports the L.A. Times Blog.

While Apple requires first hand approval before any program will be added to the App Store, some useless applications have scathed through the screening process. The most recent example would be the now defunct application, I [...]

iPhone 3G Going for $1000 or More in the Philippines

Apple’s iPhone 3G has been an extremely sought after device. With Apple’s decision to introduce the iPhone in other markets globally, variations in actual device prices, rate plans and subsidizing specifics are natural. However, some countries have been a little unluckier than most. The Philippines is one of the unluckiest, with users having to pay [...]

Additional Airport Frisking may Attempt to Combat Piracy

“Music fans might soon have their iPods searched by Customs officers at airport checks and face jail if a large amount of pirated music is found on them.” Reports News.com.au.
“The push for the unprecedented searches of travelers’ laptops and MP3 players has been revealed in a leaked discussion paper relating to a treaty being negotiated [...]

Bring Your Gear into Battle with a Monolab Design Trunk

Cleverly described as a 4TB iPod, this modern case seems to be fit to take on anything…including impending doom.
Four years in the making, Ismael Ghalimi had found that the stress of traveling with his equipment had become far too much of a burden on both himself and his workstation. Built from German [...]

Woman Finds Rare iPhone Production Line Photos in Her New iPhone 3G’s Camera

A geeks equivalent to a groupie’s glimpse of the backstage at a Rolling Stones concert has been unleashed at ReMoveTheLabels.com: photographs straight from the iPhone production line. According to the site, a poster’s mom purchased the new iPhone 3G only to find three pictures awaiting her on the on-board camera. Two are far [...]

Jobs + Gates + light sabers = best game ever

Feeling bored? Well there’s no better way to spend your long and arduous day at work then to play this game. Stick it to your boss and have some fun.

Off-shore Mac Clones are seriously off-shore

A company dubbed Open Tech announced this week that it would follow in the erroneous foot steps of Mac Clone maker Psystar. Upon browsing the company’s website, I was intrigued to see a .tk domain extension. Out of natural curiosity I set out find find out what country this belonged to. After [...]

Live coverage of iPhone 3G release in the Netherlands.

T-Mobile  is currently showing live streaming coverage of the iPhone launch event outside one of their shops in Rotterdam.  Complete with hoards of people, press and paparazzi I must say that it looks more like a red carpet premier for a summer blockbuster movie than the release of a mobile device.
Click here to check it [...]

Exactly 2:03am PT; Do You Guys Have Any Nails Left?

Come on Mobile Me !!!!!!!!!

“All Things Paczkowski” bender leads to complete insanity.

Perhaps it was one too many coffees or possibly just a John Paczkowski overload, but this morning Aviv went a little insane. After watching 50 consecutive episodes of Digital Daily, he apparently thought he was becoming All Things Paczkowski. Below is the video that I was graced with being forced to view upon [...]

Apple handing out passwords like candy.

This morning, Marko Karppinen,  head of a Finnish software development firm found himself on the wrong end of a security breach. After attempting to log into his Apple Developer account he was startled to see that not only had his password changed but also his email address associated with it.
Sounds like the work of a [...]

[update][photos] First Man in New Zealand iPhone Line; Will be first in entire world to get iPhone 3G

Apple sure knows how to attract the crazies. Like Jonny Gladwell from Auckland, New Zealand.
MacDailyNews reports that “He’s pitched his tent and stands at the head of a line (of one, so far) outside an Auckland Vodafone shop where he hopes to become the first man in the world to buy an Apple iPhone 3G.”
New [...]

O2 Offers Home Delivery for the iPhone 3G.

It’s hard enough for those of us stateside to swallow the fact that the U.K.’s O2 is giving the new 3G iPhone away for FREE (*as long as you sign up for their $89 plan), but now the British cell phone service provider is offering pre-order options on their website that include- get this- delivery [...]

Horrifying iPhone Interface Shots Invoke Night Terrors

Here is an interface shot of the TripLog/1040™ for iPhone that Stevens Creek Software makes.

Stevens Creek Software claims to be “a leading provider of software solutions for the iPhone.” And as Jim posts in the Outpost weblog, “there are no official iPhone applications available yet, one is left to wonder how they know they’re [...]

[photos] iPhone 3G insanity officially commenses. NYC lines form one week early.

Well, the insanity has officially begun! Some very eager Apple fans (10 to be exact) have formed a line outside Apple’s flagship Manhattan Store. This 1970’s inspired group is claiming appreciation for Apple’s new iPhone 3G because it allows for “independence from being tied down to office chairs in order to get your work done, [...]

Mobile Me accidentally ships to .Mac customers. FedEx sent to pick it back up.

“Apparently someone at Apple HQ got a little trigger happy on shipments of MobileMe. According to reports, the company mistakenly mailed boxes of the all-syncing, ever-loving software to at least a couple of current .Mac users ahead of schedule. When Apple was alerted to the gaffe, the user was told that a courier would be [...]

Traveling Brits be warned; international download rates through the roof.

UK consumers that are planning on nabbing up the iPhone 3G on July 11th could be hit with some rather shocking cell phone bills when downloading music or programs overseas.  While Apple and it’s British provider O2 have utilized the unlimited download facility as a marketing ploy within the UK, yet a far different data [...]

[video] [updates x2] Bus Passenger Violently Attacked for iPhone.

Police are searching for a man who attacked a passenger on an Ohio bus for his Apple iPhone. The assaulter assailant is still at large, however, the victim managed to hold on to his iPhone! Maybe he was watching UFC right before the attack. Keep your eyes peeled towards the end of the video, there’s [...]