Cody Taylor

When those Apple advertisements tout “there’s an app for just about anything,” they aren’t kidding. The latest example? A new iPhone application which just debuted in Japan’s App Store transforms the handheld into a full-blown web server. The application allows your iPhone to appear just like any other web server on the web.

A recent carrier update delivered to U.S. iPhone users through iTunes contains two small files for use with AT&T’s future MicroCell signal-patching device. The update to the iPhone’s carrier settings arrives on the heels of AppleInsider’s report on AT&T’s 3G solution to patch iPhone dead zones just last week.

Get your immune system ready. Dysentery will be on the rise soon.

Microsoft’s answer to portions of Apple’s MobileMe service was expected to be called SkyBox, but the company is now rebranding the mobile data sync service as My Phone, according to pages posted to the company’s Windows Mobile website.

In a slightly left-field move, Archos has announced plans to release a new version of its Internet Media Tablet range… but this time it’s a smartphone.

Your next cheap phone might be a Linux phone – but you might never know it. The LiMo Foundation announced Monday that Verizon Wireless and other global carriers will be rolling out Linux-based phones in 2009, possibly including low-cost devices capable of running advanced Web apps.