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Network limitations somewhat stymie what the iPhone and iPod touch can do with video, but that hasn't prevented developers from trying to harness the power of moving pictures on the devices. Mayakama.com's Television is a video aggregator that lets you watch 61 news (and news-ish) programs on more than 30 channels, including CNN, NBC, the Associated Press, and Cnet, as well as several foreign news services. The app also includes videos from the Onion, College Humor TV, VH1, and MTV. The app's successes and limitations show just how far developers have to go before getting video right.

A California University has created an iPhone application specifically for its students, so it could be only a matter of time before this spreads to college's everywhere.

What can you get for US$149.7 million? How about a nice Jackson Pollock masterpiece? Too rich for you? OK, how about Art, from ADS Software?If nothing else, the $1 app will run you hundreds of millions less than that Pollock painting, and you might learn a thing or two as part of the bargain.

MobiTV has struck a deal with CBS to broadcast the 2009 NCAA Division 1 Men's Basketball Tournament live on the Apple iPhone 3G-all 63 games of it.

When he was 17, George Hotz poured hundreds of hours of his summer vacation into a special project: learning the iPhone's secrets. His unpaid labor eventually paid off. With the help of a soldering iron, he was the first to unlock the iPhone, delivering the handset to international networks before Apple had a chance to.