Following up on a recent rumor, Skype has made it official: Skype for the iPhone will be making its first appearance in the App Store on Tuesday, and to RIM's BlackBerry device in May.

In early January, rumors leaked out, and at Macworld, Apple announced, that tiered pricing was coming to iTunes, but didn't announce exactly when, although they did say "April." The LA Times has reported that, although Apple has not publicly announced the date, the company has been telling the music industry 4/7.

AdMob's latest Mobile Metrics Report (.PDF), released Tuesday, shows that 50% of the United States smartphone web traffic is coming from iPhones.

TBD! Yes, it's unfortunate, but the best Apple would say for the iPhone 3.0 OS release date is "summer." More on that later. And no "one more thing" today (you know what you were hoping for!). However, on Monday, Apple detailed the upcoming iPhone OS 3.0 software, with Scott Forstall, Senior VP of iPhone Software to give us a preview.

On Thursday, Apple sent out invitations to a Tuesday, March 17, 10 AM PDT special event in Cupertino to discuss the iPhone 3.0 OS and a new SDK. The invitation doesn't mention new hardware, just new software. Perhaps this means I will be spared the temptation to buy a new iPhone this year. My wallet hopes.

Apparently tiny wasn't enough of a description for the iPod Shuffle, as Apple on Wednesday unveiled a new miniscule version of their smallest iPod.

Yesterday, there were rumors spreading about a March 24th event to announce new Mac desktop product. Today, it seems the rumors about the event were wrong, but not about the products, as Apple announced updates to its iMac, Mac mini and Mac Pro lines as well as updates to the Airport Extreme and Time Capsule products.

In order to enjoy DVD movies, video files and YouTube videos on the iPod nano, you need to rip the DVD movies and convert the video files to the video formats iPod nano recognizes, and then transfer the output video files to your iPod nano with the sync of iTunes Library.

Google on Monday released a beta (what else?) of Google Sync for the iPhone, Windows Mobile and phones that support SyncML. BlackBerry users already had a version of Google Sync for their devices.

Sifting through the latest 2.x firmware has led some to confirmation that in (probably) six months or so we should be seeing a new iPhone 2.1 model. Whether that's an announcement, or a release, is still TBD.

It was 25 years ago today, January 24, 1984 when the Macintosh first went on sale. According to Apple's Super Bowl ad, it was set to revolutionize personal computing, and it did.

How much information should companies be expected to make public on issues like - say - their CEO’s health? Individual exchanges have their own rules about disclosure.