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How to know if your iPhone battery is on Death Row (154 diggs) The ugly truth about your iPhone battery? It's got a lifespan of less than two years, but may not even last that long if you're careless. Here are expert tips to help you take better care of it - and then know when to send it to that recycling bin in the sky.

Silicon Sweatshops: iPhone manufacturers suffer nerve damage (366 diggs) The mysterious illness began with an odd tingling of the fingers one week, a creeping numbness in the feet the next. Sometimes, deep and painful muscle cramps would wake the factory workers from their dorm beds. Weeks later, many of the workers simply couldn’t walk right, staggering across the factory grounds.

Movies on Your iPhone? Apple Buys Several Projector-Related (236 diggs) We've known for some time that Apple would like to cram a projector into its next iPhone, but are they on track to really do so? It looks that way, at least according to a handful of patents Apple has applied for.

25 Things You Can Remote Control With Your iPhone (413 diggs) One of the more interesting things you can do with the iPhone is use it as a remote control for other devices. Since the iPhone App Store launched almost two years ago, developers have created hundreds of remote control applications.

NPR, WSJ will be Flash-free Web sites for Apple iPad (328 diggs) Steve Jobs' master plan of killing flash is slowly starting to work.

Keyboard dock, other iPad accessories will be MIA on April 3 (275 diggs) The launch of the WiFi iPad is only a couple weeks away, but only two of the advertised accessories will be available on that day. The rest have been delayed until May, and one seems to be missing from the store altogether.

Owe Someone Money? Just Bump Your Phones (378 diggs) PayPal's new iPhone application promises to make it easier to exchange money without cash or checks.

Nexus One is a Complete Flop Compared to iPhone/Droid (497 diggs) Flurry compares sales of Apple iPhone vs. Google Nexus One vs. Motorola Droid over their first 74 days, in which Apple sold 1 million units.

Dead iPad battery? Apple not replacing, just sends new iPad! (298 diggs) Check out the company's opening line: "If your iPad requires service due to the battery's diminished ability to hold an electrical charge, Apple will replace your iPad for a service fee." Hear that? REPLACE. Better back up your iPad data before sending off into the land of no return!

Google pays Web pioneer to bash Apple (474 diggs) Tim Bray isn’t as well-known as Sir Tim Berners-Lee, but the guy has had a leading role in defining the Internet. His name tops the list of editors on the official specs for the Internet’s XML language, the basic building block for all Web pages.

40% of Blackberry users willing to trade in for an iPhone (667 diggs) BlackBerry users tended to have fierce brand loyalty, but the iPhone is apparently changing that. And, while more BlackBerry users are planning to switch to an iPhone, Android-based devices are starting to garner more attention as well.

iPhone browsing to be faster with Opera -- if Apple approves (597 diggs) The company behind the Web browser Opera is weeks away from submitting it to Apple's iPhone store for approval, a spokesman said Friday. The result, according to the Norwegian company, would be a browser up to six times faster than the iPhone's default Web tool, Safari. The open question is is whether Apple will approve the application.

How Apple Blew Its Chance To Own AdMob For $600 Million (339 diggs) Apple had a chance to own mobile advertising company AdMob for $600 million, but blew it, the New York Times reports.

OS X Virtual Showdown: Parallels 5 vs VirtualBox 3 (483 diggs) Virtualization is becoming a bigger factor in everyone’s computer experience. One place it seems to be gaining popularity is a Windows client running on a Mac. This arrangement allows a Mac OS X user to have access to the huge Windows library of titles. So, it does make sense for a Mac user to at least consider virtualization as a practical tool.

Apple's iPhone OS 4.0 Might Deliver a Multitasking Solution (532 diggs) One of the biggest complaints surrounding Apple's iPhone OS is the lack of multitasking support, and it's a valid one. But if the latest rumor proves to be true, critics will soon be silenced, or at least redirect their disgust squarely on the lack of Flash integration.

With More Than Enough Apps, Apple Pushes for Quality (425 diggs) Apple's recent purge of sex-tinged iPhone apps, combined with its lesser-known ban of cookie-cutter apps, signifies the company's new focus on quality,rather than quantity, in its App Store.

Apple COO Cook gets $22 million Bonus Filling in for Jobs (326 diggs) The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple's Chief Operating Officer, Tim Cook, received a bonus worth $22 million for his work filling in for Steve Jobs' during the CEO's 2009 medical leave.

Apple Sells 51,000 iPads in First Two Hours? (633 diggs) The iPad officially became available for pre-order earlier today and while plenty of you are still debating about whether or not to pre-order, it appears as if the device might already sold 51,000 units in just two hours via pre-order. Wow.

Top 9 Classic Games on the iPhone (407 diggs) Note: To keep things fair, the original versions of these games had to be at least five years old to be included.

DING! Round 2: Foursquare & Gowalla both update iPhone Apps (323 diggs) In this corner, with a big head start, a huge user base, and tons of features, it's ... Foursquare! In this corner, with millions of dollars in funding and a great-looking new design ... Gowalla! The two have been going blow-for-blow in the location-based social gaming fight. Who Wins?

It's Time to Declare War Against Apple's Censorship (688 diggs) The App Store censorship horse may have been beaten to dead, but the German media --now under Apple's fire-- isn't surrendering. Hopefully, their blitzkrieg will be successful, and the European Union will open an investigation that the US would follow.

iPhone Developer Ngmoco Justifies the Freemium Model (293 diggs) While Ngmoco has emerged as one of the iPhone's top original developers, they've also lost a lot of fans by sticking with a model they call "freemium," even to the detriment of some of their most popular games.

Publishers fight Apple over striptease iPhone app (292 diggs) Shake the phone and the girl loses another item of clothing. Apple wants a German girlie publication to modify its striptease iPhone app so that the girl stays covered by a bikini. Publishers are angry. "Today they censor nipples, tomorrow editorial content," one said.

Apple's Long History of Lousy First Reviews (437 diggs) Though the iPad has drawn some harsh reviews, it's hardly the first Apple product to get trashed (at first). A look back at 25 years of "flops"

Apple's Secret iPhone Developer Agreement Goes Public (531 diggs) The first rule of the iPhone developer program is: You do not talk about the iPhone developer program...