iPhone

At last year's Office 2.0 Conference (which CNET sponsored), attendees were delighted to discover that the price of admission included an iPod Nano, cleverly preloaded with the conference schedule.

This year, organizer Ismael Ghalimi is raising the ante. All conference attendees get iPhones.

The phones will be part of experiment at the conference in Web-based group collaboration (the iPhones being, as we've said before, hardware for Webware), which Ghalimi explains on his site. Also, the logistics of ordering and shipping the phones to attendees is being done with Web 2.0 products and services, a Webware experiment … Read more

Tom Krazit has an informative piece up about the "disagreement" between AT&T and Apple on the iPhone numbers.

Apple reported 270,000 units (to clarify, that's all iPhones -- accessories were included in the revenue number but not the units) shipped in the first 30 hours while AT&T says only 146,000 were activated.

Of the potential reasons Krazit lists, the Macalope suspects the lion's share of the discrepancy between the two numbers is due to the activation woes and the fact that Apple is including units that it shipped to AT&… Read more

If you have ever wondered just how much to tip your server after a restaurant meal, this iPhone app is for you. Simply enter the total cost, use a five-star rating system to rate your service, then select the number of people (if you're splitting the cost). We like this app, but question whether people will pony up $1.95 for a 3-month subscription to use it. Register with Kudit to get a 15-minute free trial.

iPhone Link: http://www.kudit.com/applications/tipcalculator/

Web site link http://www.kudit.com/

The Q2 financial results that Apple reported today once again show how unstoppable the iPod/iTunes (and now iPhone) juggernaut has become.

Recall that Apple hasn't released a major new update to its portable music player since the iPod video and Nano models debuted in 2005. The 2006 updates were fairly minor, adding capacity but no significant new features. Even so, and with the iPhone getting most of the press and garnering the most excitement among the Apple hardcore, the company sold 9.8 million iPods in Q2, up from 8.1 million in the previous year. Add to … Read more

Reuters reports that Apple is announcing iPhone sales figures of 270,000 for the second calendar quarter. Now the question is why don't AT&T and Apple's numbers agree? [Update from conference call: Apple does seem to be blaming it on activation problems. So 46% of iPhones had activation problems lasting longer than 30 hours? Wow.]

Also, another great quarter overall with record Mac sales and iPod sales up 21% year-over-year.

The Macalope eagerly awaits the first silly pundit to point out -- again! -- the dire news that iPod sales were down for the second consecutive … Read more

Apple seems to be doing pretty well these days.

For its fiscal third quarter, the company reported profits of 92 cents a share after the close of the stock market Wednesday, 9 cents higher than Wall Street was expecting and 26 cents better than the company's own projections. And the magic number? Apple reported selling what appears to be 270,000 iPhones during the two days before the quarter ended on June 30.

UPDATE 2:14 P.M. PDT: Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer has confirmed 270,000 iPhones were sold in those two days.

Revenue for the quarter was $… Read more

Michael Gartenberg asks Is the iPhone a success or a flop?

The launch of the iPhone was the first move in what is likely to be a long game for Apple, trying to gauge the overall success based on two days of incomplete data is silly.

Gartenberg doesn't even mention the fact that the iPhone launch was plauged with activation problems. Needless to say, the Macalope is bullish on the iPhone. We'll see what this afternoon's quarterly conference call brings.

[Disclaimer: the Macalope holds an inconsequential number of Apple shares.]

If you're the type to monitor Apple sites for any sign of a rumor or news story, this will probably be old news. But for those of you who don't mind waiting to hear the news from another source, it looks like Quanta -- a prominent Taiwanese cell phone manufacturer -- has scored the right to manufacture the next version of the iPhone. Wow. Now that's some interesting news isn't it? Uh, sure.

Why in the world do people care when Apple signs a contract with a manufacturing company? I think it's one of the … Read more

I got my hands on XtremeMac's latest in-car iPhone power adapter, the InCharge Auto. As luck would have it, CNET car tech writer Kevin Massy loaned me his trusty desktop car lighter power supply to see if the adapter was worth its salt.

The result? It works! In fact, the adapter's standard USB connection will likely work on other USB-chargeable products as well.

For just $20, this seems like a good solution for charging you iPhone between destinations.