iPhone maker Apple has technology to stop "objectionable" messages sent on its machines.

Last week, both Apple and Ingram Micro confirmed a new arrangement for Apple distribution in NZ.

I have been trying to make my iPhone 4 drop connection - or even to drop a bar or two - and have come up with several ways to make it happen.

I have solved the mystery of the dropped calls, because it's been happening to me.

While most online music ventures let us listen for free, Ping revolves around something that for many has become an anachronism - paying for it.

Whatever the truth of any Flash argument, Jobs' stance appeared to have little, if any, impact on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad sales.

In its first quarter, the iPad has almost done more business than all the other 'tablet PC' producers put together for the past three years.

Photos from the Apple media event in San Francisco.

As Apple reassures US iPad customers that it can fill demand, Orcon has become the first telco in New Zealand to sell the device.

I went into Vodafone last week and said 'my contract is about to expire, I'd like an iPhone 4 please'. They didn't exactly laugh..

Daring to suggest that Apple Mac sales are on the rise seems to have touched a nerve.

Religious fervour surrounds the latest phone technology, despite it only representing a small slice of the world market, writes John Naughton.

This is no plasticky toy - it's solid, sleek and slick, yet also very thin. And the screen looks lovely.

The whole iPhone 4 launch in New Zealand has descended into a surreal mix of blame and outright confusion.

Have you heard? iPhone 4 has a reception issue when you hold the phone a certain way.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has apologised to iPhone 4 buyers about its reception issues and offered free cases to help rectify the problem.

Macs are easy to use, so everyone says, and indeed, that's how I found them when a mate introduced me to them back at the beginning of 1988.

It's emerged that a senior engineer and antenna expert at Apple had told management last year that the iPhone 4's design may cause reception problems.

The test of a company can often be how it responds in the face of adversity, so it will be fascinating to watch Apple over the coming days and weeks.

Apple's iOS4 lock-down may cost it in the smartphone market, the same way its 'no clone' policy hit it in the 1990s.

There's always a backlash that gets picked up by the legions of Apple haters who gleefully spread negative stories far and wide, writes Mark Webster.

'If the iTunes account hacking part is true, then Apple really needs to step in and fix this,' wrote one.

CreativeTech is an Apple-centric conference concept, and the very first one is taking place in September.