Should IT Departments Be Worried About the iPhone?

There is no doubt that WiFi-enabled smartphones like the iPhone have corporate IT departments on edge. Numerous experts and analysts have observed that the iPhone is not intended to be an "enterprise" device, and very few benevolent CFOs are going to approve the purchase of pricy iPhones for their employees. Yet CIOs know that millions of them are going to be coming into the workplace anyway.

published on Monday, the 2. April 2007, macnewsworld

June 11 iPhone date uncertain: report

The alleged June 11th iPhone release date is likely the result of confusion, research has revealed. Telephone calls placed to 25 of the company's stores spread across the country presented contradictory information, with many asserting only that the Apple device would be ready sometime in June. Some pointed to delays to July or September triggere...

published on Friday, the 30. March 2007, macintosh-news-network

Apple iPhone to be Released on June 11th?

CNet's Gadgets Blog claims that Cingular has confirmed the release date of the Apple iPhone.Now Cingular is confirming that the release date will be June 11. A customer service manager at Cingular (we called 800-947-5096 and were tra...

published on Friday, the 30. March 2007, macrumors

Dvorak to Apple - Stop The iPhone

eldavojohn writes "John Dvorak is advising Apple to cease all efforts on the iPhone, citing the mobile handset business as a 'buzz saw waiting to chop up newbies.' With Apple's image as a 'hot company that can do no wrong' on the line, Dvorak warns that the extremely fad-prone marketplace for cell phones will quickly turn the 'hot' iPhone passe'. Unless the company has several new models in the pipeline to release after the original offering, he says, they're likely to fail. 'If it's smart it will call the iPhone a "reference design" and pass it to some suckers to build with someone else's marketing budget. Then it can wash its hands of any marketplace failures.'"

published on Thursday, the 29. March 2007, apple-slashdot

iPhone Generated One Million Inquiries

A Reuters story reports on comments by AT&T Chief Operating Officer Randall Stephenson during a speech on Tuesday. While AT&T/Cingular is not accepting pre-orders for the iPhone, they have set up a email signup list to find out when th...

published on Tuesday, the 27. March 2007, macrumors

AT&T receives 1 million inquiries on Apple iPhone

Cingular Wireless, the mobile unit of AT&T Inc., has received around a million requests from customers who wish to receive additional information on Apple Inc.'s upcoming iPhone handset when it becomes available. Cingular, which is undergoing a re...

published on Tuesday, the 27. March 2007, appleinsider

iPhone Games in the Works... from 3rd Party Developers

Businessweek discusses Apple's entry into the "casual game" market with the iPod games, first introduced in September 2006. Casual games are described as "play-it-for-15-minutes-and-fo​rget-about-it games" that are frequently found on m...

published on Friday, the 9. February 2007, macrumors

iPhone Rivals Putting On Their Game Faces

Pablo Gonzalez, a Prada shoe-wearing cell phone connoisseur who jumps from one new handset to the next, is ready to ditch his $1,000 touch-screen cell phone for Apple's iPhone when it becomes available in June. Tark Abed, on the other hand, just got the new Samsung BlackJack smartphone a month ago.

published on Sunday, the 4. February 2007, macnewsworld

iPhone: Revolutionary or Rip-Off?

The day after Apple launched its iPhone, Padmasree Warrior, Motorola's chief technology officer, wrote on her blog on Motorola's corporate Web site that she is a fan of Apple's creativity and that she liked the cell phone's new look. Then Warrior, whose company is the largest U.S. cell phone maker, began to find fault with the iPhone, saying it lacks "revolutionary or disruptive" technologies.

published on Thursday, the 1. February 2007, macnewsworld