TechWeb - InformationWeek - Apple servers were overwhelmed Friday by requests to activate the new iPhone 3G or update older models with the latest 2.0 firmware. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Microsoft's Mac Business Unit, which produces applications for the Mac platform, currently isn't planning to release any iPhone-specific applications. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - IPhone 3G customers in New York City came from as far as Russia and endured long lines and delays caused by activation glitches to get their new phones. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Apptix launched a hosted Exchange service that can deliver push syncing of e-mail, calendar, and contacts to the iPhone and other ActiveSync-ready smartphones. -- read full article
PC World - Apple stole the IT news show yet again this week with the Friday launch of the iPhone 3G in 22 countries. But there was other... -- read full article
AFP - Gadget lovers around the world on Friday crammed into stores to buy the latest super-fast iPhone G3 only to find activating the coveted devices was hit-or-miss due to Apple computer troubles.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Analysts credit the iPhone's required data plan for driving European iPhone users to the mobile Web and say the faster 3G network should push usage even higher. -- read full article
Investor's Business Daily - Apple's much-anticipated iPhone 3G arrived Friday with tech enthusiasts lining up at stores -- and many enduring problems trying to activate the devices. -- read full article
PC World - Apple's new multimedia handset is the Timex of phones. Here's a blow-by-blow account of how it took PC World's mauling and kept on calling (until we literally drove it into the ground). -- read full article
PC World - Software compatibility problems marred the launch of the iPhone 3G at Apple's flagship store in London, where customers had... -- read full article
USATODAY.com - Today is iPhone 3G day across the globe. Lines had already formed Thursday at some Apple Stores, including New York and San Francisco, where hard-core fans want to be first on the block with the new iPhone when it goes on sale at 8 a.m. at Apple and AT&T stores in the USA. -- read full article
AFP - About 1,000 tech fans -- and at least one confessed "gadget freak" -- jostled for a chance to snap up the first iPhone 3Gs in the US on Fifth Avenue Friday.
