Microsoft’s hype-driven search decision engine interface has now been optimized for the iPhone and iPod touch, as well as a bunch of the usual touch-based suspects, including the Zune. Features include easy tabbed homepage navigation and tabbed search results organization.

It is easy to see the iPhone as a mixed blessing for a wireless provider, with insanely high data rates on one side and insanely high sign-up rates on the other. Do Apple and Verizon want each other?

Palm said, “Tit” and now Apple’s answered with a cursory “tat.” The ongoing war between the two companies over iTunes syncing rumbles on with neither side apparently willing the concede let alone play nicely with the other.

Although I’ve yet to put it to the test, there’s a lot to like just reading through the changes made to this open source project. Have a look at what’s been added and, just as important, what’s been fixed in this milestone release.

Four years and much snarky criticism after Apple began using handheld point-of-sale (POS) terminal running Windows CE, the company has finally turned a corner and is now in the process of rolling out and iPod touch-based system. Same software, but the new hardware is much more capable and, surprisingly, one heckuva lot less [...]

The upcoming Android mobile phone from Motorola is being hailed as the best thing since sliced iPhone. Is it all based on nebulous futures and hype, or are there some facts behind the latest iPhone killer?

First, what are we [...]

The Mac tablet breadcrumb trail now leads down under with media companies in Oz, off the record of course, reporting that the mothership’s been round to pitch their phantom device. This latest report adds weight to rumors that the Cupertino, California-based Mac, iPod and iPhone is preparing to remake the publishing business, bringing [...]

The TomTom car kit has at long last hit the Apple store, and presumably other retailers. The big question at this juncture will be, is the car kit worth the $199 price tag being asked?

The car kit for the [...]

Are you annoyed that your iPhone includes many records with no phone numbers? Here’s a sweet little trick — including a ground floor primer on copying, compiling and running an AppleScript — to synchronize only Address Book entries that include telephone numbers.

If you’re a space junky, and we know you’re out there, it’s no longer a question of keeping up with and in touch with National Aeronautics and Space Administration news and happenings — it’s how close you can be and the continuity of the contact. Here’s a free tool for keeping your finger [...]

With forty-plus million iPhones and Touches in the wild, it would seem that Amazon should be worried that their Kindle app for the iPhone would hurt sales of the actual hardware Kindle. Will it?

When the Kindle app for the iPhone appeared [...]

Going on a trip and you’re getting ready to print? Stop, don’t kill that tree! Here’s a cool money (and tree) saving trick for caching Google Map driving directions on your iPod touch.

This should be pretty straight forward:

Riding on a wave of sexy, cool, and competent, the Apple iPhone is moving almost stealthily into the corporate smartphone domain, long seen as the home turf of the RIM Blackberry.

Since its inception, the Blackberry from Research In Motion (RIM) has been [...]

The prior television ad released by Verizon in the smartphone marketplace was a virtual love-in with the iPhone. Their latest, however, shows love for the new Android while dissing the iPhone.

When last seen, Verizon and its CEO were solidly on board with [...]

When Apple enabled app upgrades at the time it introduced the 3.0 iPhone operating system, they were very clear that paid in-app upgrades would only be possible in paid apps; free apps would remain free.

They have now changed their tune [...]