With nearly every computer application, song, movie and TV show worth wanting, and a lot that isn’t, available for “free” via peer to peer sites and BitTorrent trackers worldwide, it shouldn’t surprise you that piracy of App Store applications is a growing problem. One company that tracks who’s using their apps says 60 percent of the active installations haven’t been paid for.

The patent application watch continues with another application from Apple for the iPhone, this time for a biometric sensor for the popular Apple mobile platform.

Apple’s US wireless network partner is using yet another inducement to move excess 3G iPhone inventory ahead of the release of an updated mobile operating system and updated handset models that could appear as soon as June. As the economic downturn continues to bite home, however, will Apple and AT&T need to do even more to get people buy?

Specials they and specials they go. Still, with contract-free iPhones already on sale and more on the way, plus the likely June release of a new Apple handset, every little move Cupertino and its partners will be highly scrutinized.

Signs are beginning to point to lower inventory levels for the iPhone 3G, and that in turn points to the end of that model’s life and the introduction of a new version of the iPhone.

International phone and roaming charges getting your down? Relief might be just around the corner—a port of world’s best known and most widely used VOIP solution is expected to be announced at a tradeshow next week.

The Apple iPhone and its partner the iPod touch continue to generate the largest amount of IUnternet traffic of any mobile platforms by a significant margin, as calculated by AdMob.

If you can not successfully describe your app or game in five seconds or less, then your efforts are likely doomed from the start. Sound unreasonable? Read on to find out what it’s all about.

Humor is the best medicine and variety is the spice of life, and just the stuff you will find in these two great pics that are really the same thing. Put a smile on your face, drolly please, and prepare yourself for animated iterations of the New Yorker’s famously wry cartoons

When the next iPhone version is released, it seems likely that it will feature something that users have been clamoring for: faster 3G data transmission speeds.