Today, I will be appearing live on This Week in Law, the great podcast hosted by Denise Howell on Leo Laporte's TWiT Network. I am huge fan of TWiT podcasts such as TWiL, MacBreak Weekly, net@night and of course the flagship show This Week in Tech, so I am really honored to be on the program today. In addition to Denise Howell and me, the show will feature TWiL regular and Chicago technology lawyer Evan Brown of the Internet Cases website and Fred von Logmann, Senior Staff Attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an accomplished IP lawyer and a crusader for free speech and privacy in the digital age who has appeared on CNN, CNBC, ABC's Good Morning America, and Fox News O'Reilly Factor. If you want to listen live today, the show airs at 11 am Pacific / 1 pm Central / 2 pm Eastern at http://live.twit.tv and usually lasts about two hours. For those of you who actually need to work today, in a few days you will be able to download the video or audio podcast on iTunes. Here is the iPhone news of note for this week:
- Foxconn Technology Group, which manufactures Apple's iPhone, has been in the news lately because of number of its workers have committed suicide. This led the Chinese weekly newspaper Southern Weekend to send one of its reporters to work undercover at Foxconn for a month. Engadget has posted a full translation of his report on the inner workings at Foxconn, plus has an editorial on the subject by Laura June.
- Robyn Weisman writes for TidBITS about some of the major iPhone game developers.
- The Wall Street Journal reports that AT&T President Ralph de la Vega laughed off the notion that AT&T will be in trouble if (when?) the iPhone become available on another carrier: "Mr. de la Vega just laughs when asked to give the date that AT&T's deal with Apple runs out. He downplays the effect AT&T will see when the iPhone becomes available to other carriers. He says about 80% of AT&T's customers are on family-talk plans or business-discount plans, which are very 'sticky.' Customers are reluctant to move away from those plans, so even if the iPhone is available elsewhere, AT&T believes it can hold on to those users."
- Yardena Arar of Macworld reviews the AT&T MicroCell, the $150 device that uses your Internet connection to give you a bubble of 3G coverage in an area that is otherwise a 3G dead zone.
- Charles Jefferies of Brighthand reviews Documents to Go by DataViz for the iPhone.
- Apple continues to make inroads into the enterprise smartphone market. AppleInsider reports that "Standard Chartered, a British bank with nearly 75,000 employees in more than 70 countries, has switched its standard corporate communications device from RIM's BlackBerry to Apple's iPhone."
- Shane Lord, an HP employee in Australia, switched from an iPhone to an HTC Desire running Android, but recently switched back. He writes in great detail on his Shasam.net blog that the problem is that the Android operating system has too many inherent flaws for any device running Android to match the advantages of the iPhone.
- Analyst guesses are often wrong so don't trust these numbers, but Donald Melanson of Engadget reports on a prediction by analyst Mike Abramsky of RBC Capital Markets that Apple is currently selling more iPad than Macs. He predicts that Apple is selling about 200,000 iPads per week, compared to 110,000 Macs and 246,000 iPhones per week.
- Speaking of analysts, Eric Slivka of MacRumors reports that Gartner believes that Apple sells 2.7% of all cellphones in the world and 15.4% of all smartphones.
- Looking for good iPad apps? Macworld published lists of its editors' 11 favorite paid apps, 9 favorite free apps and 10 favorite games.
- Looking for even more good iPad apps? Just wait. Andy Ihnatko writes for Macworld that a second wave of even better iPad apps is coming soon.
- If you want to use an iPad to make presentations in court, at CLEs, etc., check out Joe Kissell's article in Macworld on tips for presenting with the iPad.
- And finally, I'm sure that anyone who loves their iPhone would love to have this iPhone-inspired art in their home or office: (Electroboutique via Gizmodo.)
