Battlefield iPhones to Run Facebook of War

Raytheon made an iPhone app for mapping units a combat zone, and for new types of communication, like "friending" other tanks. It'll presumably sell for, like, $50,000 in Apple's military app store, and still earn less than iFart. (Pic)

Google Phones Too Geeky for Google's Fahionista

Marissa Mayer knows her taste matters; that's why the Google VP walks the office in Armani and Oscar de la Renta. So when she showed off her cell phone in France, it should have been one of Google's. Whoops. More »

Standing Up To Steve Jobs

They apparently imagine themselves as the rebel alliance in Star Wars, and Steve Jobs as Darth Vader, these publishers quoted in Ad Age. And they're determined to escape the iTunes Store tractor beam, a gorgeous Apple tablet notwithstanding. More »

Chinese People Loved Ching-Chong iPhone App, Says Programmer

Yesterday we wrote about LuckyFortune, the iPhone app dripping in Chinese caricature. Its inventor has written in to defend that app as inoffensive, uplifting, "light hearted and fun." Chinese Americans told him so! More »

Everything Annoying in the Universe in One iPhone App

Dave Eggers, lord of twee literature, has declared he will personally save print media. But not until the author and McSweeney's publisher starts selling this lamentable little iPhone app. More »

iPhone Gets First Racially Offensive App

Apple has taken flack for over-policing its iPhone App store. But sometimes the company under-polices, as well. As with LuckyFortune, a fortune cookie app built around what can only be descrived as a "ching-chong Chinaman" theme. More »

Steve Jobs Deceives Again, Says Google Evidence

Steve Jobs and Apple famously dissembled about the CEO's health, until Jobs took a six-month medical leave. And what did Jobs do on his return? Issued a controversial statement about Google that the search company has now flatly contradicted. More »

Steve Ballmer's Two Minutes of iPhone Hate

Microsoft's CEO seems determined to live out a career of comical self parody. Steve Ballmer, who suppposedly hurled a chair in an anti-Google tantrum, has acted out his iPhone rage in a Seattle stadium. How Big Brother can you get? More »

Code Theft Allegations Can't Stop iPhone Bubble

Foursquare has raised its first venture capital investment, and it couldn't have been easy: There are persistent rumors the social networking company stole its code from Google. Plus, it wanted to invest the money in a domain name. Ooof. More »

Drudge Death Panel Murders iPhone App in Stalinist Snafu

Just as we suspected he would, Matt Drudge demanded Apple kill iDrudge, the iPhone app created by a fan to read his website. But the right-wing protoblogger then reversed himself in a stunning flip fliop. Siren time! More »

The Fevered Fantasies of Apple's Fanboys

One Wall Street analyst predicts Steve Jobs will show up for Apple's Apple's iPod event next week; others doubt it. The frenzied chatter is just one way people turn into hysterical teenaged girls before these Apple things. Especially online. More »

Drudge Fan's iPhone App Helpfully Strips Out Advertising

Oh, look at that: A self-professed fan of blogger Matt Drudge has released iDrudge, an apparently unauthorized iPhone app for reading the Drudge Report. No need to zoom in, like in Mobile Safari. Also: No ads! More »

Five Augmented-Reality iPhone Apps We'd Actually Buy

Sometime next month, new iPhone software is supposed to ease the way for "augmented reality" apps, which digitally superimpose data on the world, as seen through the phone's camera. Very cool idea and, so far, very boring execution. Think, people! More »

Testy Day at Business Insider

Looks like the languid, late summer days are not exactly relaxing the insiders over at Business Insider and Silicon Alley Insider. Editors Nicholas Carlson and Dan Frommer have a veritable slapfight going. Check out the warring headlines: More »

Measuring Steve Jobs Recuperation Through His Minions' Anguish

Steve Jobs really is getting better! Rumors that the Apple CEO is being an impossible bastard to his staff have been confirmed by the Wall Street Journal, to whom said staff leaked details of their torment. Old Steve is back. More »

A Steve Jobs Confession, a Fanboy Shock

Yes, Steve Jobs is that evil. Silicon Valley spent the past month convincing itself AT&T just absolutely had to be responsible for kicking the useful Google Voice application off the iPhone App store. Whoops, it was Dear Leader. More »

Workers of the World, Cast Off the Yoke of iPhone-ism!

T-Mobile and CB Richard Ellis were sued by employees for requiring, but not paying wages for, after-hours communication via smartphones. Past court decisions, involving pagers, have hinged on employees' ability to engage in "personal pursuits." More »

Steve Jobs' Privacy Compromised with Device He Invented

Unlike other Silicon Valley honchos, Steve Jobs is famous enough to interest TMZ. How did the celeb-stalking site catch Apple's CEO leaving his Cupertino headquarters today? Not with a pricey telephoto rig, but with one of those ubiquitous iPhones.

iPhone Avenges Burglary for Man, Boy

Apple's two-month-old "Find My iPhone" has already jailed a criminal: A 15-year-old tracked down two iPhones and a wallet stolen from two cars. "As soon as I told [a police officer] the address, he started to laugh." Revenge is priceless.

Steve Jobs Nursing Self to Health By Being Maddening Bastard Again

Apple is poised to release a tablet computer early next year, according to AppleInsider. But first, picky CEO Steve Jobs gets to have some fun driving his engineers completely insane. More »