The company designated as Apple’s only (so far) retailer and service provider in China says that they expect that the iPhone will attract a 10 percent market share of China’s 3G users.

After years of obstacles being placed in the way by local lawmakers at the behest of South Korean handset manufacturers, Apple is finally going to be allowed to sell the iPhone there.

There are some clues lurking about that Apple may be thinking about getting into the computer game business, following up on the newfound popularity of the iPhone and Touch as gaming platforms.

Sometime next week, what is arguably the most overpriced app for the iPhone, TomTom, will add a very basic feature for its genre – pronounced street names. Should we be excited?

In what could be seen as at least a minor surprise, it was announced earlier this week that some Radio Shack stores will soon begin selling the iPhone, both the 3G and 3GS models.

Those of you who have been waiting with bated breath for malware to make its way to the iPhone may resume breathing; a worm named ikee has made its appearance on the Apple handset.

It seems that nothing, not even a tenacious worldwide recession, can keep the smartphone market from growing and the Apple portion of it from growing even faster than the overall niche.

The Motorola Android phone may or may not be an iPhone killer (probably not) but it looks like this first solid platform for the Google Android operating system will heat up the smartphone wars.

Although the reception to the iPhone going on sale in China was warm, the event does not seem to have engendered the sort of sellout reception that a new model iPhone introduction does in most markets.

It is easy to see the iPhone as a mixed blessing for a wireless provider, with insanely high data rates on one side and insanely high sign-up rates on the other. Do Apple and Verizon want each other?