Since the iPhone launched more than two years ago, a handful of crime-fighting tools have emerged among the thousands of innovative apps. They give ordinary citizens the capability to sleuth and guard themselves against crime. Users can conduct a background checks or avoid walking through a high-crime area.

Applications for the apple iPhone usually fall into the categories of games and entertainment. But a new top selling app is serving a more serious purpose.

The iPhone is having a major impact on how the competition is designing its own phones…From form, to applications, to a touch screen.

Apple unveiled its newest iPhone software with 100 new features.  There’s new, faster iPhone hardware as well, the 3GS.

The apple iPhone has revolutionized the world with its cool features. But nothing is cooler than the apps, or applications, little programs you can download that turn the phone into all sorts of things from entertaining, to practical, to downright diabolical. 

Players can illegally use the Apple iPhone to help them beat the house in blackjack.