What Apple’s Lost iPhone Says About Access Journalism

Staff / Truthdig Apr 21, 2010 It goes like this: A 27-year-old Apple employee left what appears to be the next iPhone on a bar stool. Someone picked up the super-secret device and, long story short, sold it to a gadget blog. And thus a corporation’s highly sophisticated control over the journalists who cover it briefly and symbolically imploded. (continued) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

WSJ: Apple Working on 2 New Phones

Staff / Truthdig Mar 30, 2010 Citing unnamed sources, The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple is working on not one but two new iPhones, including a device that will run on Verizon’s network. Engadget says one device could be called the iPhone HD. (continued) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Prudish Apple Bans Bikinis

Staff / Truthdig Feb 23, 2010 If you're looking for sex appeal, there isn't an app for that. Apple is killing applications on its iPhone and iPod Touch that show women in such obscene dress as beachwear. Despite parental controls, mature-content warnings and a lack of anything truly provocative, the company apparently decided things had gotten too raunchy. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘iBailout’: Pocket Activism

Staff / Truthdig Feb 4, 2010 The creator of "iBailout!!" says he wants to put his socially conscious games in front of a mainstream audience that might not normally engage with politics and activism. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Behold the iPad

Staff / Truthdig Jan 27, 2010 After months of breathless anticipation, techies everywhere have a new gadget/cultural phenomenon on their hands in the form of Apple Inc.’s new tablet, the iPad. Apple CEO Steve Jobs was on hand to do the unveiling honors at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Wednesday morning, and based on the results, you can bet the lines will be forming in front of Apple stores yet again. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The White House: Now Available in iPhone-Friendly Format

Staff / Truthdig Jan 26, 2010 Top White House press-wrangler Robert Gibbs cheerfully unveils the new White House iPhone app in a new promotional video released Monday for the occasion. As jaunty music plays in the background, Gibbs sets the scene in the video by declaring that users can watch him "set the White House press corps straight every day" with the app. Such a card, that Robert Gibbs. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

2,000 Angry Chinese Workers Don’t Care About the Apple Tablet

Staff / Truthdig Jan 20, 2010 Apple has a big event planned for the end of the month, when the company is supposed to unveil its rumored tablet and perhaps a new iPhone OS, but the workers who make screens used by Apple are a lot more concerned about getting paid and whether they've been made to work with hazardous materials. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Now You Too Can Be Among the Powers That Be — Thanks to ‘iBailout!!’

Staff / Truthdig Jan 6, 2010 Leave it to the good ol' US of A to produce this sort of thing: An enterprising gaming company by the name of Hands-On Mobile has created an iPhone game that allows users to play the part of the money-gobbling Fed In this digitized satire the Fed actually eats angry citizens But fear not (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The iPhone Goes to War

Staff / Truthdig Dec 17, 2009 The iPhone is getting outfitted for battle. Raytheon, that clever military contractor, has developed an iPhone application called the One Force Tracker that helps soldiers track each other and their enemies, orient themselves and communicate using an interface similar to Facebook. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Frustrated Subscribers Target AT&T

Staff / Truthdig Dec 15, 2009 Thanks to the runaway success of the iPhone, AT&T has the largest wireless network in the country -- and the lousiest. Fed-up subscribers, who pay the telco about $30 a month just for data (and another $40 or so for voice), are planning an assault this Friday called Operation Chokehold. (continued) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The iPhone as Musical Instrument

Staff / Truthdig Dec 5, 2009 It was a sonorous synthesis of computer science, musical innovation and some of the best kind of product placement imaginable when Stanford University professor Ge Wang convened the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra on Thursday. Here we have a group of people who have figured out how to play compositions including Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" (performed near the end of this YouTube clip) on their smartphones. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

A Phone to Die For

Staff / Truthdig Jul 23, 2009 After losing a prototype iPhone, a Chinese product manager for Apple's overseas manufacturer killed himself by jumping from his apartment window. Apple doesn't directly manufacture its products, but the company's notorious and sometimes belligerent devotion to secrecy isn't playing well in light of reports that Sun Danyong, 25, was harassed before his death by security personnel from his employer's parent firm. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )