CNET News - Apple

Rickrolling iPhone worm is never gonna give you up

Caroline McCarthy — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:07:00 PST

iPhones that have been "jailbroken" are potentially vulnerable to a worm that replaces the device's default wallpaper with, yes, a photo of pop singer Rick Astley.

Apple said to be working on 'world-mode' iPhone

Jonathan Skillings — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:42:00 PST

The AppleInsider blog says it's gotten wind of a "hybrid iPhone," due in the third quarter of 2010, that would work on both GSM and CDMA (hear that, Verizon?).

Originally posted at News - Wireless

Smartphone market unfazed by recession

Lance Whitney — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:26:00 PST

A record 43.3 million smartphones shipped in the third quarter, according to a new report from IDC.

Originally posted at News - Wireless

Steve Jobs, Fortune's CEO of the decade

Sam Diaz — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:01:00 PST

Love him or hate him, you have to admit that Apple CEO Steve Jobs has had a helluva decade.

Apple, RIM grab market share from Nokia

Lance Whitney — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:10:41 PST

Facing competition from Apple and RIM, Nokia has gone from 50 percent share of the Wi-Fi handset market to 35 percent in the past year, says new In-Stat report.

Originally posted at Crave

Parallels 5 boasts huge speed improvement

Jim Dalrymple — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:04:00 PST

Virtualization software that allows Intel-based Macs to run Windows and Linux adds 70 new features and is even faster than Apple's Boot Camp, Parallels CEO says.

Apple reaches 100,000 apps, 2 billion downloads

Jim Dalrymple — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:51:00 PST

Company's App Store hits another milestone as it surpasses 100,000 applications available in less than 16 months since its launch.

Hacker breaks into jailbroken iPhones, asks for $7

Elinor Mills — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:29:00 PST

A hacker asks victims to pay $7 to get instructions for fixing a security hole in their jailbroken iPhones.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

China Unicom: 5,000 iPhones sold in first weekend

Erica Ogg — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:11:00 PST

While the numbers don't come close to the original iPhone's first-weekend sales in the U.S., the Chinese carrier has other factors to contend with.

Originally posted at Circuit Breaker

Intel comments on iPhone sync glitch

Brooke Crothers — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:27:00 PST

The chipmaker says it is investigating a glitch that prevents an iPhone from synching with certain PCs and circuit boards that use a new Intel chipset.

Originally posted at Nanotech - The Circuits Blog