“BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart will start selling Apple’s populariPhone on Sunday, the chain said, confirming earlier reports by employees.

Bentonville-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will become the second independent retail chain after Best Buy Inc. to sell the phone. It is also sold at Apple Inc. and AT&T Inc. stores.

Wal-Mart will sell the phones for $2 less than the regular price with a two-year contract: $197 for the 8-gigabyte model, or $297 for the 16-gigabyte model. Best Buy is discounting the phone by $9.

Reports that Wal-Mart would sell the phone, but not the exact launch date or the terms, surfaced early this month through store employees who had been briefed.”

Source: Yahoo!

Good news to everyone not near an Apple, Bestbuy, or AT&T store! Wal-Mart will now be carrying iPhones. Everyone has a Wal-Mart around don’t they? Now when you are out picking up the groceries you can snag one of these 

The wait is almost over. Straight from the dev-team’s mouth, the iPhone 3G has been successfully unlocked through SOFTWARE, just like the original iPhone. The updated unlocking tools are set to hit the net new year’s eve. Maybe your new year’s resolution will be to try every cellular network you possibly can with your iPhone. Here’s a bit from the dev-team about the unlock:

• The target release date for the unlock is New Year’s Eve 2008.
• This unlock method is available to iPhone 3Gs that have 2.11.07 baseband or earlier, we did warn you.
• You can tell what version baseband you have by going to Settings->General->About->Modem Firmware
• The unlock requires a jailbroken 3G iPhone.  It’ll be installable via Cydia and so it doesn’t matter if you have a Mac or PC.
• Please refrain from updating your baseband, regardless of what version you’re at.  We’ll have complete directions on New Year’s Eve.
• We’ll stream a live demo of the unlock before Christmas (see the update at the end of this post)

“We made some significant 3G progress this week.

Here’s a screenshot of a 3G iPhone whose baseband has been modified.  And even though it’s modified — and fails the integrity check — it’s still running.  Can you guess where the patch was made?

Now that the festive update at Apple's "Let's Rock Event" In SanFransisco, lets get a good review on what went on.

First was Apple's iTunes. They have announced that iTunes 8.0 is ready to go. Now this new update of iTunes will most likely contain normal updates and Compatibility Added for iPod Touch 2nd Gen, and iPod Nano 4th Gen. 

Second, is the new iPod Touch and iPod Nano Models.

The iPod Touch seems to have some minor improvements, and hopefully a price drop, but since we are all into it, Apple Redisigned the package to a familiar plastic box of goodies.

Now the iPod Nano on the otherhand, has inherited some traits from our Touches. It seems that now, Apple used the Accelorometerin the new iPod. So now this amazing technology isn't iPod Tocuh/iPhone exclusive anymore. They also made some major changes…

Now the third thing I wanted to review is the new iPod Tocuh 2.1 Firmware. Now this firmware is not aavailible yet, but will be a free upgrade to all 2.0 users, and the same nominal fee of $9.99 for 1.1.x  users. Here are the new features.

It Appears that apple has released iPod Touch firmware 2.0.2, with the usual, bug fixes.

[Download ]

Via [iPhone Dev Team Blog]

But i thought Apple was perfect???

Via [Suedehead’s Emporium ]

MSNBC wrote:

Firefighters battled a blaze for more than three hours at Apple headquarters, according to an Msnbc report. The fire was first reported at 10 p.m. Tuesday night, and the fire was contained by 12:30 a.m. Wednesday. Flames under an air conditioning unit continued to burn for an additional hour.

The Santa Clara County Fire Department said the three-alarm fire scorched the roof and the second level at one of the six buildings on the company's northern California campus in Cupertino. It was extinguished early Wednesday morning. No one was injured.

Senior Communications Dispatcher Rafael Salcedo said he fire was "not very big, but there is going to be a lot of smoke damage.

 

Good news to the Windows user in the family with an iPod Touch/iPhone (including myself)! Winpwn 2.0.0.4 now available and jailbreaks the 2.01 firmware for all the world to love. When I say Love, I mean it. 2.01 is much better then 2.0 in many ways.

-The whole iPod touch/iPhone seems more responsive.

-The much anticipated Installer app is now available.

-The keyboard seems less buggy.

-Includes the newst Cydia. 

-iTunes dreaded "Back up" before syncing is much faster. 

Download the latest WinPwn HERE

Get ready because the good ol' devteam is coming at you later today (as promised) with the official Pwnage tool for you 2.01 members! Macbrew will keep you updated with the news as it becomes available. When WinPwn comes out I will make a video for everyone showing how to do this "pwning"

UPDATE 1:It is…."sparkling" im told by the Dev Team. 

UPDATE 2: Ha HA! Well, i feel stupid. After installing the 2.0 pwnage tool use the "Search for updates" button.  It SHOULD have an update.

UPDATE 3: Download HERE