Is the iPhone killing the 'Net? That's the question posed by Oxford University Professor Jonathan Zittrain in his new book, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It....

Zittrain argues that today's Internet appliances such as the iPhone and Xbox hamper innovation. That's because these locked-down devices prohibit the kind of tinkering by end users that made PCs and the Internet such a force of economic, political and artistic change.

While sales of the BlackBerry have so far showed no signs of slowing in the face of an economic slowdown, one analyst believes the popular device could face new pressure from another angle -- Apple's iPhone.
Charlie Wolf of Needham & Co. started coverage of Research In Motion Wednesday with a hold - or neutral - rating.

In a note to clients, the analyst called the maker of the BlackBerry line of smart phones "the best in the business at what it does." But he cautioned that new applications being developed for the iPhone could give the device an advantage, especially in the consumer market, where RIM has seen most of its latest growth.

We just came across a few more interesting 3G iPhone details. Industry sources told TG Daily that the device in fact will launch at WWDC 2008, in two or possible three different configurations, and prices starting at $399. There are a few other tweaks, which, however, may be less than you would expect from a next-gen iPhone.

We aren't quite sure about the reasons why we are suddenly getting a lot more information about Apple products than we used to in the past and whether these are intentional leaks or just leaks that Apple just has to deal with as it is growing into a much larger entity than it was a few years ago.

Palm's facing deep challenges to compete with Apple's iPhone, while Reseach In Motion's BlackBerry also seems set to lose marketshare to the device, at least in the consumer market, an analyst reports.

Needham & Co. analyst Charles Wolf has commenced coverage of Palm and RIM, and notes both companies face challenges as iPhone wins hearts and minds in the consumer and enterprise markets.

A right ripper rainbow of 3G iPhone rumours is relentlessly raging across the radiant Internet, perpetuated by rapscallion rumour-mongers bent on raising expectation to raucous new heights. If it's all true, it's quite radical, but if not, it could well be outrageous.

But with Apple so set in its ways of doing whatever it pleases, whenever it pleases, to whomever it pleases, what users want and what they get are two very different things, dependent entirely on the desires of one man: Steven Paul Jobs, CEO of the 21st century's greatest technology company to date.

Today's rumor, courtesy of Daily Tech, actually has a fair amount of detail. According to what it heard from a little birdie, Apple plans to stick with the 8GB and 16GB options for the 3G iPhone, as well as the pricing for those models, and announce the new phones at the Worldwide Developers' Conference in early June.

The new iPhones, however, would be about 2.5 millimeters thinner than their predecessors, and have a slightly different exterior finish that's less "plasticky," according to Daily Tech.....

Developers who eagerly downloaded Apple's beta release of the iPhone developer's kit found themselves without a connection this morning, as the package timed out before a replacement was issued.

Developers, of course, shouldn't be using their primary phone to run beta software on - but these days everything is a beta, and few of the hundred thousand people who have downloaded the SDK will be serious enough to have bought a second iPhone just for development purposes.

So this morning they got a rude awakening and a reminder to separate development and daily machines. Or at least they did if they weren't using their iPhone as an alarm clock.

The upcoming iPhone 2.0 software is just around the corner and we all may be surprised how Apple's unified communication solution could merge mobile communication with VoIP, PCs, Macs, iPhones and even Apple TVs. We took a hard, long look at the information that is available right now from reports as well as patent filings to give you an outlook what Apple might be up to, why we are quite certain that VoIP and videoconferencing will be the iPhone's new killer applications....

What everyone seems to hope for at this time is some kind of VoIP solution, such as Skype, that will enable iPhone users to place free phone calls over Wi-Fi network....

A major U.S. financial institution will test Apple Inc.'s iPhone 2.0 beta for potential use by internal end users, despite raising red flags about inadequate security on the next-generation device three weeks ago.

"I'm awaiting my device as I type," said a high-ranking official at the financial company in an e-mail today. The official, who asked not to be named and that the company remain unidentified because of corporate policies, said several users will test the device across various security, network and Microsoft Exchange support teams.

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