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Just last month we had reported about Stuart Hughes releasing the world's costliest iPhone 3GS in the world. Now the company is out with its synonymous iPod Touch.

Apple (NSDQ:AAPL)'s iPhone has the top touch screen - most responsive and accurate - beating out hot rivals including Motorola (NYSE:MOT)'s Droid and Google (NSDQ:GOOG)'s Nexus One, according to an independent testing firm.

Yes, Google Voice for the iPhone is finally here, albeit as a Web app, allowing you to place calls from your Google Voice number, send free text messages and view transcribed voicemails. While most of the app's core functions remain intact, there are certain limitations to the Web app.

Apple iPhone is the most popular smart-phone on the market today. And this is so for a good reason: its incredible technical capabilities and endless supply of apps are so far unsurpassed by the competition. But iPhone comes with a significant cost. Besides paying for the iPhone you are also obliged to get quite expensive plans with only a few preselected network carriers. This can be a significant problem for your budget. But now there is a definite solution for this problem.

Motorola DROID It's the first device to run using the greatly improved Android 2.0 operating system and Motorola has gone a long way to address most of the shortfalls that were inevitably leveled against previous Android phones in comparisons to the competition.

The Chronic Dev Team has released the greenpois0n untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1. It took an extra 48 hours for the jailbreak to be released for those using Windows systems (meaning, most of us), but that's now here as well.

Martial arts is a big part of my life, and conditioning goes hand in hand with most of what I do during my daily training. Sparring, interval training, circuit training-these and other segmented events require a flexible timer and audible tone to spare me the hassle of keeping an eye on my watch.

Among the most anticipated features is the addition of stereo Bluetooth-audio streaming (A2DP), which will allow current second-generation iPhone and iPod Touch owners to experience the cutting edge of mobile technology.

Considering that it's turned out to be one of the most successful products in consumer electronics history, the volume of nay-saying on the iPhone has been constant and ongoing - many dismissed the phone when it came out, when it was announced, and even when it was just a glimmer of a hint of a rumor.

Mophie are back, with the third incarnation of their Juice Pack iPhone battery cradle. The Mophie Juice Pack Air claims to have answered most of the criticisms of the earlier models, while still offering to almost double iPhone 3G runtime. Is this a must-have cradle, or just a cradle of filth - SlashGear set to finding out.

For Apple's iPhone to truly be a world-class smart phone, it needs to be everywhere in the world. But iPhone isn't officially distributed where it needs to be most: China, the world's largest cell phone market. Recent noise about possible future iPhone deals with U.S. carriers shouldn't drown out the silence about China.

Apparently there really is an app for everything, even one to tell you when to go to the bathroom. Yes, the iPhone has apparently replaced the brain.

a leader in customizable, patented 2-way GPS Personal Location Services (PLS) solutions, and theKalika Group, one of Nepal's largest and most respected business conglomerates, have entered into a binding exclusive agreement which provides for the deployment of GTX Corp's proprietary GPS technologies and product line to the territories of Nepal, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Bhutan - a vast marketplace comprising of an emerging, dynamic economy with a combined population of over 1.5 billion.

The Fall Atlanta Home Show (www.AtlantaHomeShow.com) is a highly anticipated annual event where the latest and most innovative features, products and trends are showcased, and where homeowners can see new products demonstrated and meet the professionals who offer them. The 2009 Fall Atlanta Home Show will be held Friday-Sunday, Sept. 25-27 at the Cobb Galleria Centre in northwest Atlanta.

As the walls that divide television, computers, and cell phones crumble, it is increasingly clear that any device's fate will be decided by its ability to gather and present information on demand. And the cell phone has emerged, for now at least, as the single most important device in the global marketplace. Nokia has never managed to leverage its position as a world leader in handset sales to achieve similar dominance in the United States, where it has only 7% market share

Like it does in most countries, Apple has a preferred wireless carrier in the United Kingdom. In this case the carrier is O2, but that may not be the case for long, at least for the iPhone 3G.

Pricing in Apple App Store: no country is the same Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 Currently, the prices for paid applications in the Apple App Store are highly fluctuating. Developers seem to be in search for the best pricepoint for their application and experiment to find out what works best. The content in the Apple App Store is also very country specific. We made an overview of the total price of the 100 most popular paid applications in a selection of countries: Price of the total top 100, per country Total price of the paid top 100, per country * based on daily exchange rate There are large differences between countries. In Europe, the top 100 total price varies from €199 in Greece, up to €252 in Portugal. A difference of over 25%. The United States price is even lower, but greatly affected by the Dollar - Euro exchange rate. The content of the App Store varies per country; not the same applications find their way into the top listings in different countries. This has a big impact on the total price of the apps per country app store. We will keep track of these developments. More detailed info on country specific developments is available in our monthly Distimo Report. Tags: Apple App Store, paid applications Posted in Apple App Store | No Comments »

TwitterFon, the popular iPhone and iPod Touch Twitter Client, released a long overdue update to their app that introduced several new features, the most noticeable being ad support for the free version. But if you think you can get around the introduction of advertisements by skipping the update, you may want to reconsider due to the number of general usability issues that slow functionality and often times crash the app.

Apple is advising iPod and iPhone owners to choose natural fibers rather than synthetic materials, install an air humidifier, and avoid touching their PMP, in the hope that it will prevent static electricity shocks. The advice, part of a warning added to the company's support site this week, blames "extremely dry air" for most static build-up, and denies any particular susceptibility of iPods and iPhones to the condition.