The Voice of Rosen

As the "death of the newspaper" gets continuing coverage (mostly on television), new apps bring the New York Times, USA Today, and now The Wall Street Journal, to your iPhone.

The brouhaha over the voice search capability in the latest version of Google's new iPhone app.

Apple's latest iPhone commercial showcases Shazam, an app that listens to music playing nearby and tells you which song it is... sometimes...

Gmail started misbehaving for some people right around the time the Android was introduced (coincidence?), but attempting to resolve this problem led to the discovery of a cool way to make Gmail work better on your iPhone.

The small AC plug that attaches to the iPhone's USB charging cable is being recalled. Apple warns iPhone owners not to continue using it to charge their phones, given the danger of electric shock. An exchange program will commence soon.

Jott was a very cool web application that converted your voice recordings into text and forwarded them to wherever... for free. Then the company decided it wanted to make money. How did Jott change the landscape of texting as a social interaction tool, and did their curtailing of their free service change it back again?

After persistent pressure from developers, Apple promises an SDK for the iPhone by February 2008.

One of Verizon Wireless's new phones, the Voyager from LG, seems to be a combination of their existing enV phone and Apple's iPhone. Does it live up to that description?

If this is the answer, what was the question? Given Microsoft's history being behind the curve on just about everything, is this parody really that farfetched?

Apple provides a developer's guide for the iPhone.

Not quite a day zero exploit, but close enough...

And unto us a phone is born...

Dribs and drabs of information about the "God Machine" taunt and tease iPhone wanna-haves.

My wife Celia decided to try out the new Ocean phone from Helio. Here is her review.