Based on the iPhone’s current growth trajectory, it could catch and surpass Nokia (NYSE: NOK) for the top spot in the global smartphone market by 2013. This is according to Generator Research, a small firm, which counts Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) as clients among…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs is back at work, but the company still can’t shake questions about whether it may have misled investors about the status of his health. Seven months after the SEC began an investigation into Apple Inc.‘s public comments on Jobs’s medical condition, the inquiry continues,…

—Al-Jazeera: Doha-based Arabic TV news al Jazeera has launched its first iPhone app costing $2.99, which is made in partnership with VOD company Livestation and indexes text news in English. Via ipodnn.com. —Audioboo: The British “audio blogging” platform has become the second iPhone app to integrate with Spinvox’s voice-to-text technology,…

When Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) launched the App Store one year ago, no one knew how much it would change the way content is distributed in the mobile industry. But today, just a year later, we are starting to see what is likely just the beginning of a major revolution. On…

One week-plus into owning an iPhone 3GS—and more than a year into reading, writing and editing iPhone app stories—I couldn’t think of an app announcement that would grab my attention, but Barnes & Noble has done it. The free B&N Bookstore iPhone app isn’t the flashiest but flash it at…

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The new iPhone 3GS may have only offered a small number of upgrades, but that didn’t stop consumers from flooding AT&T’s web site and retail locations to make “iLaunch 2009” one of the largest periods in the company’s history, achieving its best-ever sales day in storesaccording to an internal memo…

Telefonica-owned O2 has won the exclusive UK distribution rights for the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre smartphone, according to a report from Guardian.co.uk, which says an announcement is due next week. Reports have linked the two companies to a UK tie-up for the some time and it would be quite a…

A Chinese company, which owns the trademark “i-phone,” may make it difficult for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to sell a similarly spelled product in the same market, reports IDG News Service. Apple has said it hopes to enter the very large market within the next year, and is rumored to be…

If you plan to use advertising to promote your iPhone app, don’t expect to break the top 100 without paying a pretty penny. To do so, it will cost $1,875 a day, according to Adwhirl, which aggregates a handful of ad networks to help publishers monetize their apps on the…

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Counterfeiters have had two years to polish their iPhone look-a-likes, and today, are nearly impossible to identify on the outside, reports CultOfMac.com, which evaluated a video shot by MacMedics and clones being sold on eBay (NSDQ: EBAY). The knock-offs, which typically produced in China, are thin, boast a large display…

It’s been two years since Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) first started selling applications for the iPhone through the App store. In that time, investors have flocked to the opportunity, pumping slightly more than $100 million into 17 companies. The figures are being reported today by “the ChubbyBrain database,” which keeps a…

Every time you hit the “r” instead of the “t,” and accidentally type “thsnks” instead of “thanks,” you probably wonder why someone isn’t working on a better solution for entering text on a mobile phone? Well, actually, someone is. Swype has been quietly trying to fine-tune the keyboard for seven…

This week Skype released two updates, one for Windows Mobile and another for the iPhone. With the new Windows version, the application comes out of beta and includes two new features: SMS and file transfer. But it was Skype’s iPhone app that got all the attention on the company’s blog…

Rupert Murdoch has already said News Corp (NYSE: NWS) intends to charge “handsomely” for its WSJ iPhone and Blackberry apps eventually. How much and when? Still unclear but WSJ.com is surveying iPhone users about their willingness to pay for what is now a completely free product. The idea seems to…

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What to make of the iPhone game Sally’s Spa, which for two weeks was the App Store’s top selling paid application? The WSJ Digits blog takes its best-selling status as evidence that the App Store is now drawing in a wider demographic from the store’s usual base of “business people,…

With Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) demonstrating that there is almost as big of a market for the iPod Touch as there is for the iPhone, it’s no wonder that Dell is considering crafting a pocket-sized device that will connect to the internet (but won’t be capable of making calls). The WSJ…