It seems iPhone has reached the end of its stint in South Africa. Rumors have it that Vodacom has discontinued offering iPhones to its users
Pieter Uys, Vodacom chief executive, told the Business Day last month that “the iPhone for example that we would not have had even today in South Africa if we didn’t have [...]

Next Generation iPhone Case to Have Matte Finish? Enhanced 3G?

It has been a long time coming, but finally MXit has been released for Apple’s iPhone. It is available from the iTunes Appstore. MXit is the leading mobile application coming out of South Africa with over 12 million users internationally.
Here are a couple of screenshots of MXit for iPhone:

(via TechStartNews)

A tipster — a very reliable one — tells me that Skype is almost ready to launch that iPhone version, perhaps as soon as next week. CTIA Wireless, a large mobile industry trade event, kicks off in Las Vegas next Wednesday, so perhaps the announcement will be made there. I am working on getting more [...]

If you develop apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch, you can now start making those apps more social. With just a few lines of Objective-C code, your users can log in to Facebook from within your app, find their friends, then share what they do in your app back on Facebook, which opens up [...]

During the live Diggnation at SXSW in Austin, Texas last Kevin Rose gave details of how the iPhone OS 3.0 will integrate copy and paste. According to Rose to copy or cut a word you would press and hold a word and a magnifier bubble would appear, you can then drag “copy boundaries” around what [...]

Invites have begun to trickle out for a March 17th Apple event, at which they’ll be debuting iPhone OS 3.0. It has been about 8 months since the release of OS 2.0, and 6 months since Apple missed their self-imposed deadline for push notifications for background applications.

Bandwidth Blog has posted screen shots of the upcoming News24 application - read the full story here
24.com will expand their mobile strategy in the next few weeks when they launch an iPhone application for all their 24 portals which include Wheels24, Sport24, News24, Fin24 & Entertainment24. The News24 iPhone application will enable all iPhone users [...]

Apple will start selling a cheaper, ‘entry-level’ iPhone sometime this summer, for around $99 after subsidy, according to “checks,” RBC analyst Mark Abramsky said in a note this morning.

The main cost reductions would come from fewer features — not a crappy ‘iPhone nano’ or something without a multi-touch screen. Abramsky thinks it might have a [...]

Apple and AT&T are facing two more lawsuits over what customers claim is poor iPhone 3G network performance and hairline cracks in the casing.
Florida residents Onel Gonzalez and Ron J. Brayteson filed a 24-page complaint in the Southern District of Florida on behalf of themselves and all members of the class in their state, demanding [...]