New App Helps Users Unlock iPhone

Hackers use school vacation to best Apple's engineers and 'jailbreak' new phone

(NEWSER) - A group of teenage thorns in Apple's side have been the first to release "jailbreak" software for the latest iPhone 3GS, the Wall Street Journal reports. The hackers, in the latest round of what Steve Jobs calls "a cat-and-mouse game with his top engineers," created software that lets iPhone users unlock their phones and download applications not approved by the company. More»

(NEWSER) - Even a gadget as good as the iPhone isn't without its annoyances, although luckily bigger geeks than you have cooked up workarounds for most of them, Jared Newman writes in PC World. Some major gripes:

• AT&T: The carrier's stranglehold in the US is becoming even more irksome as foreign iPhone users start to enjoy better tethering and multimedia messaging services.
• Weak email management: An update has added bulk email management, but there's still no simple way to delete or move batches of messages.

'I've never seen anything like this,' Apple boss says

(NEWSER) - The iPhone’s new App Store has exceeded the company’s wildest expectations, tallying up average sales of $1 million per day, Steve Jobs said today in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. Apple’s on pace to make $360 million from the store this year. “This thing's going to crest a half a billion, soon,” says Jobs. “I've never seen anything like this in my career for software.” More»

Add more cowbell or find nearby restaurants

(NEWSER) - Impressed with Apple's spread of iPhone apps, Wall Street Journal tech gurus Walt Mossberg and Katherine Boehret list their favorites.

• AOL Radio: The best Internet radio player for the iPhone
• Evernote: A good port of the elegant note-taking program
• Instapaper: Instantly download Web pages for offline reading.
• Travelocity TravelTools: Allows you to check flight schedules, gate assignments, and security wait times.

PC Magazine gives you the scoop on the new slate of titles for Apple juggernaut

(NEWSER) - The best part about the iPhone 3G's debut, writes PC Magazine, is the new abundance of software for the handset. Most of the apps work on the original iPhone, too. The cream of the crop:

• AIM: Should need no introduction, although it was a major omission from the original iPhone's slate.
• Bejeweled 2: A popular time-waster gets a suitably beautiful iPhone port.