The same geniuses who brought you the iJailbreak solution for Apple’s latest iPhone and iPod Touch 1.1.3 firmware have gone that additional mile of tweaking and created iJailbreak Mobile: now you can enable unofficial third-party software on your cellphone or PMP without even needing to use yo…

Here in the UK it’s not strange for the iPod Touch to be described as “all the best bits of the iPhone” with the less-successful parts (the non-3G phone, the relatively-poor camera, and of course the carrier lock) omitted; Needham & Co analyst Charlie Wolf is willing to go one…

UK Apple partner O2, who hold the exclusivity contract on the British version of the iPhone, have today announced a refresh of their iPhone-specific monthly tariffs that could see users with up to three times the amount of included voice minutes and SMS text messages as before.  While the two entr…

I predicted December 27 that the “main event” at that summer’s Olympic games — now 200 days away — will be the “clash within the Chinese Communist Party, which will use biometrics, surveillance, censorship and an army of goons to suppress info about China’s many problems, versus journalists and to…

A new home theater remote-control from Tvcompass called the SR 1500 Digital Media Remote runs Windows CE, CONNECTS TO THE INTERNET via WiFi and enables sofa potatoes to surf the web. Tvcompass will sell the device through satellite and cable operators and others, who can customize the remote. consid…

The February issue of “National Defense” magazine reports on the use of iPod software that speaks Arabic and Kurdish and enables soldiers to communicate with locals. What’s new: The software will soon be available for CIVILIANS!

The search for the missing iPhones continues, with analyst Tony Sacconaghi of Bernstein Research throwing more numbers around in what at least partly looks like an attempt to justify his ongoing warmth toward Apple stock.  Sacconaghi suggests that a whopping 27-percent of the iPhones sold in 2007 h…