If you own an iPhone, you will want to learn some of the cool iPhone tricks. If you are a new owner of an iPhone, then congratulations! You now have a very handy and powerful piece of technology that can virtually do it all. And it is so easy. With your new iPhone, everything can be done with your index finger. So let the tapping begin.

RIM is rumoured to be working on a brand new operating system and handheld device to meet the challenge of the iPhone.

The BlackBerry maker is said to be developing a new 9000 Series platform that will be targeted at the consumer market, according to Carmi Levy, an analyst at AR Communications.

Succumbing to the hype and buying one of the most buzzed-about consumer products in ages - from a corporate titan like Apple, no less - doesn't exactly scream "Stick it to the man!" yet I've been feeling like a bit of a rebel since buying my iPhone.

"Wait a minute," you might be saying to yourself, "I thought they weren't selling the iPhone in Canada yet?"

True enough. But if you simply can't wait until Rogers (the only wireless carrier in Canada whose network supports the iPhone's technology) starts selling it here - and it still hasn't announced when or even if that might be - there's no reason that, with a little resourcefulness, you can't get your hands on the most highly coveted high-tech gift of the year.

Apple and T-Mobile have been forced to allow an unlocked version of the iPhone to be sold in Germany, after the operator Vodafone won a court injunction.

Apple's unique tactic for its first foray into the cellular handset market has been to sign an exclusivity deal with one operator in each country where the iPhone has been released. In the UK that operator is O2, in the US it is AT&T, in France it is Orange and in Germany it is T-Mobile. Although the exact terms of these deals remain murky, it is clear that Apple uses their exclusivity to negotiate a share of the revenues generated by iPhone contracts.

apple’s iphone strategy was dealt a fresh blow today when its exclusive partner in germany - europe’s largest market - was forced to make the gadget available on rival networks.

t-mobile said that it would, with immediate effect, make the phone accessible to other mobile operators.

the move followed a legal challenge by vodafone which claimed that the exclusive deal — under which customers were forced to sign up to a 24-month t-mobile contract — breached local competition laws.

Apple has been forced to release a version of the iPhone in Germany that is not locked into a specific network or contract, scuppering its exclusive deal with Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile.

Following a preliminary injunction, T-Mobile said that it would sell an unlocked phone for €999 (£717) until a final decision is reached. It will continue to offer iPhones locked into a two-year contract for €399.

Ya gotta love those European courts. T-Mobile said today it will sell the iPhone in Germany without a contract in order to comply with an injunction issued by a court hearing a lawsuit brought by rival Vodaphone. If you want it without a contract, you can have it for 999 Euros, or more about $1,477 given today’s exchange rate. With a contract it will go for 399 Euro, or about $590.

The issue is exclusivity. Vodahone is challenging the right of T-Mobile and Apple to offer the phone on an exclusive basis, which sounds a lot like the one big complaint that consumers in the U.S. had when the iPhone first hit the market: They didn’t like that it worked only on AT&T. Funny how you don’t hear that complaint all that much of late. Additionally. Vodaphone is challenging T-Mobiles practice of selling the phone with a so-called SIM lock that prevents SIM cards from other networks from working in the phone.

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