iPhone used by Japanese school to keep t... If American school children have to resort to some special mosquito ringtone to use cell phones at school, a university in Japan is doing the opposite: giving cell phones to students. And not just any cell phone–the iPhone 3G. According to Asiajin, about 550 students and staff members in the School...

New iPhone video download training progr... The iPhone 3.0 operating system release will include new support for direct downloads of movie and TV content from the iTunes Store, according to people familiar with Apple’s internal training materials. Last week, a Salon blogger covered initial reports of a new iTunes Store interface for downloading...

Diagram of the life of an iPhone App Sto... Now this we can appreciate! Looking at this, if you’re familiar with the seemingly random app rejections that were (and sometimes are still) happening, you’ll get a really good laugh out of it. This writer especially appreciates the “sounds of flatulence” reference, and the “we...

Amsterdam Interactive City Guide 3D rele... Amsterdam now has an interactive city guide with 3D available for the iPhone and iPod Touch: the Amsterdam 3D Guide. This is the first three-dimensional panorama travel guide app in the world, specially developed for the iPhone. Users of the Apple iPhone don’t have to use their old guidebooks for...

Austin GDC iPhone Games Summit accepting... The 2009 GDC Austin’s iPhone Games Summit has been announced and is now accepting submissions, following a similar call for the Indie Games Summit earlier this week. Here’s the blurb from the organizers: “The inaugural iPhone Games Summit (September 15-16) at the 2009 GDC Austin will bring...

AT&T preparing for new iPhone launch... AT&T has formally announced plans for deploying its 7.2 Mbps mobile data service upgrade this year, which will support faster iPhone models expected to be released this summer. AT&T said the upgrade to “High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) 7.2 technology,” which delivers theoretical peak...

Several firms see Apple selling current ... With more and more evidence pointing to Apple’s 2009 iPhone lineup consisting of three distinct models, the Royal Bank of Canada is the second investment firm to predict that one of those models will be a repackaged version of the existing 8GB iPhone 3G that will see its price tag lopped in half. Discoveries...