MarketWatch reports that negotiations between Apple and China Mobile, that nation’s largest carrier, are making progress toward an iPhone 3G launch in the country with over 600 million possible subscribers.

While China Mobile’s CEO, Wang Jianzhou, was legally unable to speak about the contents of the talks, he did say they are still interested in [...]

Mega-store Wal-Mart (along with Sam’s Club) will join Best Buy in offering Apple’s iPhone 3G to their customers just days after Christmas, according to new reports. It’s strange to wait until after Christmas, but that’s what will happen, according to some leaked memos to employees.

In an email to clients on Wednesday, JRPG Research analyst [...]

New Yorker Avi Koschitzki has tossed his own lawsuit in with the ever increasing pile, accusing Apple and AT&T of the usual iPhone crimes (lousy reception and speed, lackluster software updates, etc) as well as a new complaint: hairline cracks in the iPhone 3G’s casing on new units. It’s been complained about before, but this [...]

In what will no doubt be the first among several who will offer this (it’s about time!), American Airlines is now the first airline to officially offer mobile boarding passes at a few airports but it shouldn’t take long for this to be available at all airports, across all airlines. Perhaps a few years, but [...]

While Apple has yet to start selling the iPhone in all seventy countries it announced at last June’s Worldwide Developer Conference (a little premature in the announcement), that hasn’t stopped them from trying to nail down deals in other countries, even some who many thought might never carry the iPhone.

Case in point: True Move, Thailand’s [...]

A listing on the Apple’s career pages suggests the company has pledged itself to releasing the iPhone in China, one of its most elusive markets up until now. The posting made Thursday for an iPhone Quality Assurance Engineer in Beijing doesn’t try to mask its likely role as a position designed to service the iPhone [...]

Apple’s iPhone 3G dethroned the long reigning king of the handsets, the Motorola RAZR, as the leading handset purchased by adult customers in the U.S. during the third quarter of the year, according to market research firm NPD, which is a huge victory for the smartphone in its battle for mainstream penetration.

The news puts an [...]