Verizon’s president is one of a handful of Apple and AT&T competitors not sounding nervous and excessively defensive about the iPhone, instead seeing as an opportunity to get North American consumers interested in music-playing phones. Attaboy, Denny, stiff upper lip.

iSkin has a pretty smooth-looking faux-leather sleeve out with their new SOHO line. The […]

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Yahoo! Mail has announced that, as of May, they will be moving to an unlimited email storage arrangement. Why is this big news for Apple fans? With the iPhone’s ties to Yahoo! Mail, they’re essentially being offered unlimited email storage for free, too. We don’t suggest using this for backing up your […]

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If you’ve been wondering about the oft-ignored camera capabilities of the iPhone, About.com has a fairly comprehensive discussion of the subject. The author of the article also looks a little like Christian Slater, so for all you Kuffs fans out there, it’s worth taking a look.

Keyboard designer John C. Dvorak has an interesting perspective […]

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The ever-cromulent Jason D. O’Grady has brought up an issue being experienced by several MacBook owners: cracking cases, particularly in the lower right corner of the palm rest area.

We’ve been holding back for a few days on the story to get more accounts of the problem and see if anything else developed. A Flickr […]

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Site-sponsor Spire had their Dart featured in Macworld’s Bag of the Week feature. The Dart gets high marks for versatility and its svelte figure, and as the reviewer notes, it’s unlikely you’ll ever need to take advantage of the bag’s lifetime warranty.

Crave (which is, apparently, a CNet blog) has a nice roundup of laptop […]

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If your background is strictly as a Mac person, trying to understand the world of cellphones can be quite a challenge. It’s a whole different world of jargon to try and make heads or tails of. To help improve your education, CrunchGear has a comparison of EV-DO and HSDPA, trying to find out […]

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Low End Mac honcho Dan Knight has an interesting query in his piece, asking whether the iPhone is a Macintosh. We won’t spoil it by telling you the answer.

The internet is abuzz with rumors of an early iPhone release, most of which are based on another rumor that Apple has set component deadlines.

If you […]

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The verisimilitudinous Jason D. O’Grady has wise words on his blog. With the influx of bigger and badder laptop drives, people have forgotten that not all 2.5-inch drives will fit in a laptop, as drive height is an issue, too.

A fun post over at CrunchGear discusses making the ultimate mobile geek bag. Even […]

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MacApper has a handy article on cleaning your black MacBook. If you own one of these beauties, you know how hard it is to keep them looking presentable, and there are some recommendations here you might not think of.

Over at cellular-news is an interesting article on how the iPhone is actually helping Samsung. […]

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Hey, if we were in charge of laptop bag style, we’d just carry the thing around in a burlap sack. Tied with duct tape.
But we’re not in charge of style. Acme Made is. And they realized that most Mac users care a little bit more about aesthetics than the average Dell-toter, so they’ve been offering […]

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Up on YouTube is a clip of an iPhone demo on CBS by everyone’s favorite Apple executive…Phil Schiller. Not a whole lot of new stuff here, though interesting to hear that email configuration will be handled by simply grabbing the settings off your desktop Mac.

The always-quality MacRumors.com has some great photos of […]

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