At Scripting News, pioneering podcaster Dave Winer is highlighting a service from BlogTalkRadio that makes podcasting a no-brainer: A new service from BlogTalkRadio… Call their special phone number: 646-200-0000. It records the call. When you’re done it creates an RSS 2.0 feed with an enclosure that’s an MP3 of the call. The address of the [...]

Last week, when Sprint announced that it was laying off 4,000 employees, we suggested that Apple’s iPhone was killing off those jobs. A lot of people took issue with the suggestion, saying that Sprint’s lousy customer service was to blame. Sprint’s customer service IS terrible. We used to be Sprint subscribers, and found that going [...]

Apple will introduce a 3G version of the iPhone next year, according to AT&T Inc. Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson. “You’ll have it next year,” said Stephenson. He said he didn’t know how much more the new version will cost than the existing model, which sells for $399. Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs “will [...]

Verizon Wireless today announced that it will provide customers the option to use, on its nationwide wireless network, wireless devices, software and applications not offered by the company. Verizon plans to have this new choice available to customers throughout the country by the end of 2008. “This is a transformation point in the 20-year history [...]

Apple and T-Mobile today announced that T-Mobile will be the exclusive carrier of the iPhone when it makes its debut in Germany on November 9. The iPhone is scheduled to go on sale on November 9 and will be sold in Germany through Telekom Shops of Deutsche Telekom and the T-Mobile web shop. The phone [...]

iPhone hackers are buzy trying to free up some of the capabilities of the iPhone. One of the most interesting projects developed so far is srelay, a SOCKS proxy server.¬†¬† srelay running on your iPhone turns it into a gateway that you can use to connect your laptop to the Internet using the iPhone’s EDGE [...]

Can’t afford an iPhone? Then get your mom to knit one! That’s what Greg at daddytypes.com did: My mom was insanely cool even before she knitted an iPhone. Last week, as the hype was peaking, I braced for reports of kids across the country grabbing for their parents’ new iPhones; it was a drool-soaked disaster [...]

Apple sold about half a million iPhones this weekend, estimates Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster. Going into the weekend, Munster thought Apple would sell 200,000 on Friday and Saturday. Sunday night, though, Munster estimated that Apple sold about 500,000 units from 6 p.m. Friday through the close of business Sunday. Jaffray also reported that 95% of [...]

Marketcircle has a free, open-source Mac application, iPhony, that provides a pixel-accurate web browsing environment, powered by Safari, for developing web sites for the iPhone. Here’s an example screen shot from iPhony browsing the New York Times. Note that the image shows up larger than life on your computer, because the iPhone’s display packs pixels [...]

The Wall Street Journal has an interview today with Steve Jobs and AT&T Chairman Randall Stephenson about the debut of the iPhone. One of the highlights is Jobs not-so-humble take on the iPhone’s interface: “One of the things we feel is this is the biggest breakthrough in user interfaces in 23 years. Since the Mac [...]