Apparently, in addition to being a fantastic consultant and musician from Cleveland, Ted is also an app for your iPhone — one that covers the Technology, Entertainment, and Design conference.  It’s main thrust is to give you access to the podcasts and recordings made and posted during and after the conference.  Hey, this app gets my download on account of its name alone.  (And Apple selected it as the App of the Week last week, to boot.)

Tags: business, conferences, ted, video

General Motors created an official iPhone app for keeping up on company news.  Why we need an iPhone app for this is beyond me (above and beyond the trendiness of developing iPhone apps, which I understand), but I guess it will be fun to have an iPhone app dedicated to the notion of tracking GM’s trip through the financial crapper.  I wonder if the app will disappear or quit working when the restructuring committee finds discovers this little project in GM’s marketing budget.

Tags: business, corporate, general motors, gm, iphone, news, pr, software

Gizmodo’s got pictures of the new Android-based G2 phone, this time with a 3.2 megapixel camera and no hardware keyboard (ie, just a touchscreen like the iPhone and Storm).  Apparently the device is thinner than the iPhone 3G, but we’re still bothered by its lack of symmetry.  Meanwhile, it’s been reported that Android device sales are not biting iPhone sales in the slightest. Check it out.

Tags: 3g, android, apple, business, g2, google, iphone, photos

A full-blown 4 GB iPhone for $99?  Unlikely, our sources say.  Over the weekend when rumors broke of an ultracheap iPhone for the proverbial Wal-Mart shopper, we laughed.  Apple’s low-end iPod touch for three times the retail price of an iPhone?  We don’t think so.

However, getting iPhones into Wal-Marts is an important strategic move for Apple, just the same.  There are a lot of folks shopping at Wal-Mart who’ve never been, and will never go, to an Apple store.

Tags: apple, business, iphone, retail, wal-mart, Walmart

According to various reports, the iPhone has sold 10 million units since launch. As we harken back to Steve Jobs’ prediction that just such a thing would happen, it seems clear that the iPhone eco-system is here to stay. Now, can I please have media messaging?

Tags: business, iphone sales, predictions, steve jobs