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Add Best Buy to the list of retailers running out of iPhone 3Gs to sell. The consumer electronics giant warned its staff last weekend that supplies of Apple's popular handset are running low, and that some stores may run out of iPhones for a few weeks by the end of June, according to a report by Sam Oliver of Apple Insider.

Apple introduced on Friday a free iPhone and iPad app that lets you locate a lost or stolen iPhone, at a cost - you will need to have an Apple MobileMe subscription that runs at $99 per year.

I'm pleased to announce that the Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported to Apple's iPhone platform, with support for the first and second generation iPhones as well as the first generation iPod touch. This is a rough first draft of the port, and many drivers are still missing, but it's enough that a real alternative operating system is running on the iPhone.

Orb Networks today announced the availability of Orb Live Events, a customizable iPhone application that enables any content owner to broadcast their live content on these popular handsets. Live Events provides content owners with a proven iPhone player, already approved and available in Apple's App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch. In contrast to using other solutions, which can cost millions and take months to implement, a content provider or broadcaster can get up and running in as little 24 hours with the Orb solution.

We found a video showing an iPhone running World of Warcraft. It looks surprisingly full-featured, but this isn't a standalone app- more of an evolution of what we've seen before.

I've gone on record defining the iPhone to really be a mobile computer that can also make cell phone calls. It uses OS X, the Macintosh operating system to run software such as productivity, game, Internet applications and more. A platform is an underlying computer system on which application programs can run. On personal computers, Windows, Linux and the Mac OS X are examples of different platforms. Sometimes just the OS itself can be referred to as a platform. Conversely the hardware itself can also be called a platform and in my opinion, the iPhone absolutely is a computer platform.

The iPhone Dev Team has announced "significant 3G progress" towards a 3G unlock, modifying iPhone 3G baseband and even running modified baseband code, but the unlock itself remains elusive.

If first day sales are an indication, Verizon just hit a grand slam home run with its iPhone.

The latest and greatest jailbreak tool has been released and it supports iPhone OS 3.1 on the 3GS hardware. Before you get too excited, keep in mind it will only work if you've already jailbroken your iPhone 3GS when it was running 3.0 or 3.0.1 firmware.

What's this? An iPhone running on the Linux operating system? It was only a matter of time.

We love the iPhone, you love the iPhone (most of you do anyway) and so do millions of other users around the world. It's a great device that empowers users to do almost anything from making calls to checking email, from updating your status on Facebook and Twitter to sending text messages and running a host of cool applications.

Developers at Citrix have been doing some guerilla marketing at Macworld Expo, holding impromptu demonstrations of forthcoming app allowing iPhone users to run Windows. The app is actually an iphone version of the company's XenDesktop thin client software. The virtualization software supports most Windows XP and Vista applications.

If the phrase "wedding apps" makes you think of shrimp cocktail, you have some catching up to do. As the iPhone slowly takes over the country, savvy software developers have created applications - "apps" - that run the gamut from fun to functional. Their latest target: brides-to-be.

The iPhone 3G might steal the show with 3G network features, but the 2nd Generation iPod Touch is prepped with a faster processor. Handheld Games Corp, developer of games for the mobile platform, reported to Toucharcade that the performance of the 3D game TouchSports Tennis on iPhone 3G was noticeably different from that on iPod Touch. To run consistently, device-specific optimizations have been added to the 3D game.

Summer is long over and lots hackers and geeks have spent a lot of time again behind their computers. The results are very interesting at times, like the just released first Linux OS port for the Apple iPhone.

The iPhone 3G unlock is now available. The unlocking software is called yellowsn0w, runs as an invisible application, and it's very easy to install. Here's how. Updated: Bad news. It doesn't work right.

It seems a shame to run down the battery of an iPhone by making phone calls. There are so many more interesting things to do with it since July, when Apple Inc. opened up the popular smartphone to outside software developers.

WHEN Apple's iPhone first hit the market, there was a lot of talk about what a cute device it was for consumers - but utterly unthinkable for serious business use.

We have discussed on a number of occasions that Apple are set to unveil its new Tablet device, the iSlate handheld computer at the end of this month. The latest rumors say that the device will run on the new iPhone OS 4.0, which will then be implemented on its 2010 smartphone.

If you own a small business and want to run an ad in an iPhone app, hold onto your wallet-or at least wait until the initial excitement dies down.