The iPhone could hamper or enhance productivity in Australian businesses but whatever happens, the ZDNet.com.au iPhone resource guide contains everything you need to know about Apple's highly anticipated mobile device.
Praised for its ease-of-use and market leading Web browsing experience, the current iPhone draws criticism for its less-than-ideal mobile data speeds and absence of basic mobile phone functionality, like MMS messaging.
When our colleagues at CNET.com reviewed the iPhone they made the following comments. "Despite some flaws, the Apple iPhone sets a new benchmark for an integrated phone and MP3 player."
Google is making its Google Talk instant-messaging application available for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch, however these new applications come in light of new security scares.
Optus will sell Apple's 8GB 3G iPhone for the outright price of AU$729 and AU$849 for the 16GB model, when purchased with Optus prepaid SIM cards.
Samsung is warning its customers that NAND flash memory might be hard to come by for some time after Apple placed a large order, according to a report out of Taiwan.
Monday was the last day on which Windows XP will be sold as a boxed product or licensed to PC manufacturers.
Telstra customers won't have to feel left out any more, now that the telco has announced that the iPhone will be winging its way to its stores 11 July.
Analyst firm S2 intelligence has predicted the end of proprietary phone and software bundles, suggesting that new open-source phone operating systems will create universal compatibility and lower the cost of handsets within three years.
As Bill Gates steps down from full-time work at Microsoft, well-wishing cheers and not-so-nice jeers are echoing from Silicon Valley.
The attempted standardisation of mobile Linux has been put on hold indefinitely, after the Linux Phone Standards Forum announced it was to merge with the Linux Mobile Foundation.
Canonical on Tuesday released its first publicly available developer edition of Ubuntu for mobile internet devices.
An iPhone debugging tool has been released that reveals the inner workings of Apple's popular gadget.
Early this decade, Microsoft weathered unrelenting criticism over a controversial set of technologies known as Palladium, which the company envisioned as creating a kind of secure vault to store passwords or medical records.
Given the hype around anything with a single-letter prefix — m-commerce, e-learning, iPhone — last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android mobile phone platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.
The explosively popular BlackBerry has recently had a new incarnation: the BlackBerry Bold. Will it be an iPhone killer? Check out our photo gallery and decide for yourself.
Work is coming along at the soon-to-open Sydney Apple store, although the high-security site is wrapped up to resemble a Steve Jobs skivvy.
With all eyes on the Australian iPhone release, HTC has stolen some of the limelight with the release of the Touch Diamond. Coming in glossy black, with a large touch screen and an array of features, everything about this phone screams iPhone rival.
If you listen to Intel, the last hold-outs against the x86 instruction set are about to fall — with super-powered Nehalem swarms mopping up the high end of massed Power PC supercomputers, and sneaky little Atoms nibbling away at the ARM embedded market.
Industry analysts are always predicting what will happen in the future. David Braue went back in time five years to see how analysts expected the mobile comms market to evolve, and then compared it to what actually happened.
If the world's largest chip manufacturer wanted to impress the world, what would it do? Our inside photo gallery from the Intel developer conference in Shanghai reveals the world's smallest motherboard, fondling robots, fuel cells, medical technology and Intel finally unleashing the power of the Atom.
Symbian is the mobile world's dominant operating system, but can it walk the walk in the business world or will it always be the poor cousin to Windows Mobile in the enterprise? David Braue finds out.
Alan Noble is the engineering and site director for Google Australia. ZDNet.com.au sat down with him to find out about the future of Web, and what Google really thinks about Microsoft's move into online applications.
Earlier this month, Telstra put out a press release trumpeting that it's come up with a new phone coaching service to help people who are "bamboozled" by their mobiles. Another excellent example of wrongheaded thinking from the mobile industry.
During a trip to the US four years ago, I rented a car fitted with an XM satellite radio — which gave me well over 100 radio stations, each carrying a continuous stream of crystal-clear talk radio or music in a surprising array of genres.
So we have answers. The iPhone is coming to Oz, it's 3G, it's cheaper, and it's available via multiple carriers.
Keen news readers would have heard about the strong earthquake that rocked south-western Greece on Sunday. Fewer may have realised that the quake was not so much an act of God, as an act of Jobs.
I can't wait for the new iPhone to come out — mainly because I'm so dog-tired of listening to the never-ending screeds of rumour mongering nonsense speculating on what functionality the device will have that come out every single day. So I've decided to join in. I'm 100 per cent convinced the new iPhone will run Vista and have WiMax connectivity. In fact I'd bet my house on it.
What a week it's been for mobiles.
Last week, I lamented the growing tendency to slam perfectly valid technologies as unsuitable for new uses, just because they prove to be unsuited for applications for which they are inherently unsuited.
Great to see so many constructive comments on here — definitely a case of the facts speaking for themselves.
The founder of Apple community site MacTalk has either uncovered the biggest Australian tech news story of the year. Or he's one mischievous bugger.
The introduction of new ICT technologies triggers a learning process that creates significant innovation across the Australian economy.
eBay shows off auction app for iPhone
10 June 2008
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Apple MobileMe = Exchange?
10 June 2008
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Jobs unveils GPS for the 3G iPhone
10 June 2008
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A small world for the latest iPhone
10 June 2008
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iPhone SDK makes public debut
7 March 2008
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Jobs unveils iPhone App Store
7 March 2008
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Salesforce.com apps for the Apple iPhone
7 March 2008
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iPhone malware 90 percent certain, say experts
10 December 2007
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Steve Ballmer on the iPhone
25 October 2007
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Opera browser for mobile phones mimics iPhone's Safari
4 October 2007
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Apple iPhone - a first look
2 July 2007
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Apple's iPhone will be released on Friday -- but only in the US
28 June 2007
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Top 5 reasons to love the Apple iPhone
24 June 2007
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The 5 worst things about Apple's iPhone
21 June 2007
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Does the iPhone's lack of e-mail compatibility threaten security?
20 June 2007
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