There is always something to write about Apple and the iPhone, the near-launch iTablet or the malfunctions at the AppStore approval, a growing pain for developers and the bad publicity it generates for Apple.

The AppStore approval process is a joke, a sour joke and Apple should take care of the whole system, shut it down and relaunch it, this is something that will make developers jump ships and while the …

Apple today introduced some new features into the iTunes music player, some will please the fans, other will pass it, but iTunes 9 is a polished new music jukebox, paired now with some social network stuff that make it even more interesting and attractive.

The new features in iTunes 9 are:

• iTunes LP: the next evolution of the music album delivering a rich, immersive experience for select albums on the iTunes Store …

Speculation about a new iTablet being developed by Apple is rampant, the blogosphere has been prototyping, faking and visualizing what it will look like and how it will transform our mobile life, but while the general perception is that an imminent introduction of a new bigger and better iPod transformed into a new iTablet is around the corner alongside the old model, Apple could kill the iPod Touch as We know …

I have been reading about the Palm Pre everywhere, even in religion newsletters, everybody is crazy about the Palm Pre features, multitasking, the WebOS and one hundred more features plus the ability to mimmick an ipod to get synced using iTunes, but the party is over for Palm, now is Apple party and while the Pre is a powerful device, Palm is not a newcomer, it is Apple who is trying …

While today buzz is all about the Palm Pre, don’t count Apple out of the mobile revolution and being Apple is always a strange-everything can happen situation, so now people is starting to move their heads towards some amazing iPhone 3.0 news and rumors and the most interesting one is the 4GB iPhone version with a price tag of $99. It seems that Apple will try to crush the competition out …

Since its creation Palm has been a follower and with the introduction of the Palm Pre, Palm was hoping to take on Apple shiny Apple believing that the iPhone success blinded Apple out, but contrary to what Palm and its executives thinks, Apple isn’t sleeping nor wasting time and tomorrow we will see what Apple has been cooking these months.

Rumors talk about new copy and paste feature, faster web browsing …

LivingSocial, an interest-based social discovery network for sharing reviews of books, music, movies, games, restaurants, albums and beer, today announced the launch of its application for the iPhone. Now, LivingSocial’s 6.8 million users will have access to more than 98 million catalogued items on the go, and be able to publish reviews and photos instantly through their iPhones.

Just in time for the holiday shopping season, LivingSocial for the iPhone is …

Chinese manufacturers are not wasting any time to monetize their iPhone clones, dozens of them have surfaced on the net but the clearer winner is the Ciphone-i88i, here the specs:

CiPhone i88i Hot Spots:
iphone 3G face
Bluetooth
Silde to unlock
TV-out function
JAVA 2.0
FM radio
E-book reader
Language :English/Chinese

Features
1.3.5 touch screen, 260k QVGA ; PX: 240*320
2.300 group contacts
…

In today’s technology roundup: iPhone 3G bids top $1 000 on eBay, Apple shares fall on forecast, Intel cuts chip prices, and Apple’s MobileMe meltdown.

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Before the iPhone 3G was announced earlier this week, it sounded like the Samsung Instinct from Sprint would be quite the bargain at just $199. And then Steve Jobs stole their thunder. To counter the pricing on the upcoming Apple iPhone 3G, it has been announced that the Instinct will be even cheaper. And it’s coming this Friday.

Set for launch on June 20, the Samsung Instinct will be available for the super low price of $129.99. In …

The intarwebz is still abuzz with all sorts of news and discussion surrounding the iPhone 3G, but the suits at HTC aren’t at all concerned about competing with Cupertino’s high-speed hotness. Peter Chou, CEO of HTC, is saying that the iPhone 3G will have a “limited impact” on HTC’s sales and on its bottom line.

The HTC Touch Diamond is pretty awesome with its svelte appearance and nifty use of the integrated accelerometer, but given that the iPhone …

Now that the iPhone is turning itself in a real threat to PSP and Nintendo DS, Apple should seriously consider entering into the full time game development to provide amazing games to the new mobile gaming platform.

To become a mobile game developer Apple should consider to two different approaches:

1. Create a Mobile Gaming Division
It’s not an easy task to find good game programmers grazing on the pasture. All major game developers are hunting down every creative …

For the first time, in my life as a mac user, Apple puts its pants on and goes to hunt. Everytime a new upgrade of any Apple product, there is an automatic price reduction, but this time is totally different, Apple is on a mission, not just to sell 10 million iphones this year, but to posititon the iphone as the premier mobile platform, even if they (Apple) have to shake the devil’s hands.

The business orientation …

At 2 days from WWDC and with fresh rumors about the new major update to Mac OS X (10.6 – Snow Leopard), here is a small list of some weird marketing ideas/events to promote Mac OS X to the masses.

The ideas/events should focus in bring a clearer idea of the advantages and capabilities of Mac OS X Leopard, here some ideas:

X Games:
Celebrated in February and March gathering worldwide attention because these games are oriented to a …

HTC Corp. today unveiled its advanced next generation business phone, the HTC Touch Pro™. Bringing a beautiful new angle to mobile business productivity, the HTC Touch Pro utilizes similar styling and functionality of the highly anticipated Touch Diamond™ and introduces a variety of business-focused enhancements that make getting work done on the go quick and easy.

“The HTC Touch Pro and Touch Diamond have created a new generation of HTC touch devices that make the promise of the …

Today big rumor is that the .mac service will be relaunched and rebranded. Apple .Mac service is an excellent plus to any mac user, it provides an image gallery ideal for those that want to be in touch with friends and families, Sync, iDisk, email account, 10 Gigabyte of hosting space, iLife integration and the most important feature Back to My Mac, that lets you monitor, control and access your mac remotely, but the only drawback is …

Hop-On, Inc. today announces that its GSM cell phone, the Hop1800, is now available in the United States for $10 USD, and worldwide. One of the new breed of ultra convenient cell phones, the pre-paid HOP1800 is ideal as a backup cell phone, when traveling abroad, or for anyone looking for a super affordable cell phone that does one thing extremely well: make phone calls.

“Though the iPhone is an amazing device, I challenge anyone to make …

There is a new iPhone killer in town and this time is the closer resemblance of an iphone, it has strong features, good looking and what is worse, it comes to give the iPhone the fight of its life. This is the Samsung Instinct (m800), which is going to spoil the launch of the next generation of iPhone this june, it is set to be on the street at the end of june, coinciding with Apple rumored …

Napster today announced the launch of the world’s largest and most comprehensive MP3 store at www.napster.com/store.

Napster’s download store is more than 50% larger than any other MP3 store and boasts not only the largest major label MP3 catalog in the industry, but also the largest library of independent music available anywhere. All Napster download sales in the U.S. will now be in the user-friendly, DRM-free MP3 format, which is compatible with virtually any MP3 player or music …

iPass today announced service availability for Windows Mobile 6 devices. Users of the iPass Mobile Office service for enterprises and iPassConnect™ mobility service for individuals can now connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi using their Windows Mobile 6 smartphone and handheld devices. iPass plans to support the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch later this year and intends to support Wi-Fi-enabled Blackberry devices as well.

“The popularity of consumer-driven handheld devices changes the paradigm for enterprise IT by …