Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., the world's largest contract maker of electronics, reported an 18 percent gain in second-quarter profit as it began production of iPhone handsets and Nintendo Co.'s Wii game consoles.

Two months after the much-anticipated launch of the iPhone, San Antonio-based AT&T Inc. plans to hire 550 retail and customer service specialists in northern California and Reno, Nev.

Experts in coding and product design say Apple has a lot more work to do on the iPhone.

After two months of steady iPhone use, Computerworld's Michael DeAgonia concludes that Apple's latest device continues the company's tradition of rocking industry complacency, with the brilliance of the iPhone shining brighter the more you use it.

The class-action suit charges that the companies violated California law by failing to inform iPhone purchasers that it costs $100 to replace the phone's battery.

In brief: The Woz talks Segway, waiting in line for an iPhone and more in a new podcast, Sonnet qualifies a 1TB drive for use in its RAID array system, Pavilion themes now have HD and iPhone versions, a set of iPhone-optimized railway maps has debuted, and a widget for tracking ranking in the game Frenzic has been released ... Steve Wozniak, co-fou...

An upgrade to WebEx PCNow 3.0 remote access software will let iPhone users check their Microsoft Outlook e-mail and view the files stored on their remote Windows computers.

The class-action suit charges that the companies violated California law by failing to inform iPhone purchasers that it costs $100 to replace the phone's battery.

As if the iPhone hype machine needed more fuel, early adopters have been treated to a series of proclamations that the device, through a sophisticated manipulation of the phone's inner workings, could be released from the shackles of Apple's exclusive service-provider contract with AT&T. The buzz spread quickly through blogs and, later, television interviews posted to YouTube that the iPhone hack ...

BitSplit Enterprises has released iFuntastic 3.0.3, a graphical utility that allows any user with no technical knowledge to "unshackle" an iPhone and change various aspects of the cellular handset. iFuntastic 3.0.3 features large, simple buttons along the left side of a window that guide users through the process of unshackling the phone, changing ...