Cody Taylor

Art on the iPhone using Brushes application – scenes of New York City.

Digg’s Kevin Rose is again peddling his Apple rumors, this time in regards to the upcoming 3.0 preview scheduled for this Tuesday. He was dead on last time around—can he do it again?

An anonymous reader writes “A few days ago, Inner Fence released a paid iPhone app called Infinite SMS, which let iPhone users employ Google’s free SMS gateway to send SMS messages without paying their service providers. The resulting surge in traffic on Google’s SMS gateway forced Google to block all third-party applications from using the free SMS feature — including Google’s own GTalk client.”

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Everybody loves the iPhone, but follow Apple’s strict rules or it’s ‘No soup for you!’

As Apple gets ready to preview its new software developers’ kit and an updated iPhone operating system next week, there could be some changes to the company’s App Store too.

Okay so there’s an app for just about anything. But how many of these are actually good? Here are some of the best ones for ebooks, music, browsing, games & more.

Apple’s just confirmed iPhone 3.0 firmware is already rumored to add MMS picture messaging and data tethering. Also, Sirius XM has said it plans to give its radio subscribers an iPhone app, and Maine is negotiating a major deal to lease 100,000 MacBooks for its schools.

Research in Motion (RIMM (http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=RIMM)), HTC and Samsung all grew their smartphone market share last year, but none as fast as Apple, whose sales increased 245%.

The iPhone 3.0 countdown is officially on: Apple has announced plans to reveal the next generation of its iPhone operating system at a media event next Tuesday. While the company’s keeping up its usual wall of mystique, we’ve compiled a list of some of the most discussed features users want to see. I’m no psychic, but some of these seem to be shoo-

By streaming its music, sports and talk channels to users of the iPhone and iPod Touch, Sirius can give its existing subscribers another way to access content and let new customers sign up without buying new radios. Sirius also sees opportunities to bundle its satellite radio service with TV packages from…