The much ballyhooed launch of the iPhone turns out to have been much more of a flop than the long lines and all the hoopla in the press would lead you to believe. While there have been claims of as many as 500,000 iPhones sold in the first days, the reality is that during the first two days of the launch, only 146,000 iPhones were actually activated, and the numbers rapidly plummeted following the initial frenzy.

An independent security research outfit has found a gaping security hole in the iPhone. They have found that someone needs only embed the correct malicious code on a web page, and when an iPhone visits the web page, it will essentially cooperate with any instruction given to it through the code.

This website gives you cash for old cellphones! That’s right, they will buy used cell phones, and give you cash for them! And they make it so easy, they even send you a free, postage-paid box to send your old cell phones back to them!

Forget plain old mobile phone tracking. FlexiSpy is a cell phone tapping and spying software that, once slipped on to your cell phone, sends all of the data from your cell phone to the person spying on you. It also allows them to turn on your cell phone’s microphone so that they can remotely listen in on what you are doing, and on your calls! It currently works with all Nokia 60, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile phones, and, according to FlexiSpy, more phones are being added all the time.

Some of the most hardcore computer geeks – and those who simply can’t live without full access to the Internet for more than 5 minutes – wanted to know this about the iPhone: is it possible to tether a laptop or other computer with the iPhone? In other words, is it possible to use the iPhone as a modem for one’s computer? And the answer is…

If you have a Sprint cellular phone and Sprint cell phone service, or are considering getting a cell phone fro Sprint, you’ll want to know just how the Sprint phone company treats customers of their Sprint wireless phone service when they call Sprint PCS customer service. Because customers calling the Sprint customer service phone number too often are being terminated by the Sprint/Nextel service!

A man in China has died after his Motorola cell phone exploded in his shirt pocket with such force that it broke his ribs, sending a shard of broken bone directly into his heart.

Of all of the nifty mobile cell phone games we’ve seen, this one is really nifty! Taking its cue from the Wii, this game utilizes the camera in your cell phone to detect motion, and lets you aim and throw lawn darts, in 3D!

Here is the hands-on Apple iPhone review (sometimes called the Cingular iPhone or the AT&T iPhone – there is no Verizon iPhone Verizon users, for you – so sorry!) they don’t want you to see and you won’t see in any of the other Apple iPhone reviews: it’s the 7 bad things about the Apple iPhone that they don’t want you to know. Thanks to our exclusive interview with Shawn King, of the Your Mac Life Show, who spent time up close and personal with the Apple iPhone / Cingular iPhone / AT&T iPhone a week before its release, and to some digging on our part, we bring you the 7 things about the iPhone that you’ll never see in an Apple ad, because they don’t want you to know about it.

This has to be the ultimate in free call forwarding services. Grand Central, as part of their beta, is offering all of their “one number to ring them all” service completely free.

Dog gadgets abound, including dog GPS, and an automatic feeder with a built-in webcam. You can also get dog sunglasses, a special doorbell door chime for your dog, an electronic dog day planner, and, I kid you not, a dog treadmill. Oh, and let’s not forget the dog pedometer to go with that treadmill.

What’s better than absolutely free cell phones? How about this? Amazon will pay you to get the very same fabulous cell phone that we ourselves use! Now that is truly one of the best cell phone deals ever!

Wow! Two great things happened here at TIP HQ this week! First, one of our websites, IndigNation.org got chosen as a Cool Site of the Day! Second, we just rolled out our new free Internet Patrol Mobile! Get the Internet Patrol on your cell phone free! Check that out [destination content has been removed at other end :~( ].

Authorities in Pakistan and Afghanistan say that people are in a frenzy because of a rumour of deadly virus being transmitted by cell phone. The deadly cellphone virus rumor is being blamed on the Taliban.

The cell phone stun gun is a stun gun that is made to look like a cell phone, only deliver a powerful, stunning charge instead of a telephone call. But just how safe is it to carry these things?