Vodafone has made an official, albeit brief announcement indicating that the company has signed an agreement with Apple to sell the in ten of its extant markets around the world “later this year.” Among the designated countries: Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey.

Interetingly, Telecom Italia also […]

Representatives of Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, the firm behind a $100 million venture capital for official iPhone application development, told iPhone Atlas that its managers have been been overwhelmed by the response and subsequent slew of applications submitted for iFunding.

Since the program’s inception, KPCB has received more than 1500 applications. Due to the immense […]

Before selling your iPhone on eBay, sending it to Apple, or otherwise sharing it, note the following: performing a “Restore” operation on the iPhone does not delete personal data from the device. In fact, mail, contacts, and various other data remain intact on the device after a restore, making the process unsuitable as a preparatory […]

Various reports indicate the emergence of free wireless internet access for iPhone users at Starbucks and possibly other businesses that offer AT&T Wi-Fi services. In locations where access is available, a specially formatted for iPhone website allows you to enter your 10-digit wireless number to gain access. It’s not clear whether access is limited to […]

With Apple’s self-imposed June deadline for a public iPhone OS 2.0 release looming, hackers are working hard to ensure that tools for unlocking (allowing it to operate with non-sanctioned wireless carriers) and jailbreaking (allowing full read/write filesystem access and installation of unofficial third-party applications) the device remain intact after the OS upgrade is released.

Now the […]

It’s been months since Steve Jobs and Apple announced the iFund, a $100 million investment initiative managed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers that will provide venture capital for “market-changing ideas and products that extend the revolutionary new iPhone and iPod touch platform” Several of our readers submitted applications to the iFund, but have yet […]

Check Point has announced the availability of Check Point VPN-1 for the iPhone. The product enables an encrypted connection between the iPhone and their VPN-1 gateway protecting in-transit data according to the vendor. The software according to Bob Egner, Vice President of product management was developed to answer the increasing requests for a secure means […]

The latest build of iPhone OS 2.0 (5a258f), now available to developers who have been accepted into Apple’s $99 iPhone Developer program, includes a feature dubbed “Import SIM Contacts” that presumably does as its name implies, extracting contacts stored on the SIM and copying them to the iPhone’s internal storage. Theoretically, this would allow SIM […]

AT&T introduced a new Text Accessibility Plan (TAP) for the iPhone today developed with the help of representatives from the hearing and speech impaired community. The plan was developed for people who are deaf, hearing impaired or have another speech or hearing loss disability.

The cost of the iPhone only TAP is $40.00 per month. TAP […]

Rogers Communications, the largest wireless carrier in Canada, will soon be carrying the iPhone. Atypically, however, the announcement comes directly from Ted Rogers, President and CEO of Rogers Communications, with no co-announcement from Apple and scant detail. Rogers’ statement reads only:

“We’re thrilled to announce that we have a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone […]