The creators of the Independent Games Festival (IGF) have launched a new $10,000 prize for iPhone game development as part of the 2009 Independent Games Festival Mobile event. This marks the first time they have offered this contest. IGF has partnered with ngmoco, a game publisher founded by Neil Young and Alan Yu, both of [...]

Japan’s Softbank Mobile has signed its first major corporate contract for the iPhone 3G, which could be a huge step for the device there. The deal will see 1,000 phones put into the hands of the top corporate bigwigs, states top technology consultant BearingPoint. BearingPoint said it is adopting the iPhone with the aim of [...]

Apple’s iPhone 3G apparently created a rather large migration: 30 percent of all the smartphone’s buyers bailed on their existing carriers and moved to AT&T in order to purchase the device, according to an NPD Group report released today. AT&T has been the iPhone 3G’s exclusive carrier in the U.S. since the smartphone was released [...]

Apple, along with Telcel, the official iPhone carrier in Mexico, are now offering the iPhone 3G contract-free as of October 3rd. This expands the range of countries that can get an iPhone without a contract. It sports all of the features that were available in the contract version, with the exception of the data plan, [...]

In an unexpected move, Apple announced on its site that it is discontinuing the NDA for iPhone programming. Link here: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/ The reasons were that they felt they needed to protect Apple’s innovations from being stolen by others. But they (finally) acknowledged that it placed too much of a burden on the very people who [...]

AT&T Inc. have announced that it will launch iPhone™ 3G in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands on October 17th. AT&T is making it easy for customers to prepare for their iPhone 3G purchase by posting “Get iReady” tips and frequently asked questions at www.att.com/iphone. The site also includes a link for customers to [...]

Numerous articles here have mentioned how the iPhone is on the march across the globe. Well..maybe not everywhere, for logistical reasons. And the bitterness is appearing on the blogs of countries that were not able to host the iPhone. Here’s a blogger from Slovenia who details why the iPhone may be little more than an [...]

In a very interesting twist, Apple has made an unlocked version of the iPhone 3G available in Hong Kong, letting consumers pick whichever carrier they so choose. This is in sharp contrast to Apple’s policy for the almost everywhere else on the planet. Unlocked iPhones are rampant worldwide, but that isn’t something that Apple has [...]

Canada may soon be getting the big box iPhone treatment. Many people don’t know it, but FutureShop is actually owned by Best Buy, so when their big US brother started selling the iPhone 3G, many guessed it was only a matter of time before Canada got some big box attention. Says MacNN: “Canadian retailer Future [...]

Vodacom has announced that the iPhone 3G has launched in South Africa, initially available to prepaid and contract customers in all major cities of the continent. “With iPhone 3G, Vodacom can further fulfill the strategy to deliver compelling and engaging Internet services via mobile to our customers,” said Shameel Joosub, Vodacom SA managing director. “With [...]