Orange wants in on the iPhone action... UK Wireless provider Orange issued a statement today stating that the carrier will begin offering the iPhone in the UK and related territories. This effectively ends the exclusivity agreement that O2 has held for awhile now on the iPhone. Part of the statement is here from the site: “Orange, which...

In-App Purchases get a test run with TCG... TUAW has a fascinating article about a TCG called Urba Rivals getting a test run on the iPhone where players can do battle using various cards, and its worked decently well outside of the iPhone environment already. The game uses an interesting model of in-game “pack” purchases (similar to...

AT&T launches MMS feature for iPhone... As previously explained, rumored (and feared in some circles), AT&T has now activated MMS for iPhone 3G and 3GS users in the US, bringing to an close the saga began when 3.0 launched in the middle of June. According to early indications, it launched without a lot of issues and worries about it instantly...

Want an iPhone? Get it refurbished and s... AT&T announced that to clear out existing stock, they have slashed prices of refurbished iPhone 3G’s to $49 for the 8GB variety, and $99 for the 16GB flavor, and they’re still available in black and white. Now that’s savings, folks (albeit for now aging technology). Their goal...

Keep your diet on track with Foodscanner... DailyBurn has released a new iPhone app that helps track the calories you consume by scanning bar codes of over 200,000 packaged and jarred foods. It’s called FoodScanner, and we like the idea, even if the price and implementation of it isn’t ideal. But it could make a dieter with an iPhone...

TomTom app/device does the posting shuff... The TomTom Car Kit for the iPhone 3GS isn’t going to be fully baked until October according to the company brass, but all of a sudden it was posted yesteday to a few European Apple online store sites, and then it was suddenly gone, with little explanation. Nothing like a little iPhone app controversy...

GMail get pushed officially for the iPho... Despite the fact that it wears on the battery quite a bit, there isn’t anything as cool or convenient on mobile phones than push email, and GMail is among the most popular free email out there today. Before now, many apps tried to simulate and fill in the gap that was official GMail push support,...