Top iPhone and Technology Related Stories from across the web

Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs shared a secret with his audience at a technology conference outside Los Angeles Tuesday: The idea for the iPad came before the iPhone. Apple’s Jobs says iPad idea came before iPhone

Skype, a leading provider of inexpensive phone calls over the Internet, has finally completed a long-awaited move to make its service available over AT&T’s 3G network. Skype on the iPhone Goes 3G … Finally

The demand for news related to the next-generation iPhone is such that even errant parts of the device are making headlines. More iPhone parts leak

With the rise of a new army of high-end smart phones using Google’s Android operating system, consumers are finding a host of powerful alternatives to the iPhone that offer much of the same capabilities but with unique attributes that speak to the individual preferences of users. Android army steps up assault on iPhone with 2 new devices

Apple and Microsoft continue to negotiate the addition of Bing to the iPhone, according to a report citing sources familiar with the talks, but as things stand, this will not see the ejection of Google from Steve Jobs’ handheld status symbol. Bing on iPhone rumor returns to boil

Thumbplay Music launched an iPhone version of its music subscription service on Tuesday, making it the first such service available for the top three mobile-phone platforms in the United States: iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry. Thumbplay comes to iPhone

If you’ve been looking for a way to convince your company’s IT department into picking up some iPhones and iPads, media and security software maker Equinux just added a big new bullet point to your list. On Tuesday, the company released Tarmac, its medium-to-large enterprise-provisioning system for iPad and iPhone. Equinux Releases Tarmac IPad and IPhone Provisioning System

After AT&T announced that 40 percent of the people who bought iPhones in 2010 were business users, there was a flurry of headlines conveniently dropping the “in 2010″ and suggesting that a substantial minority of AT&T’s iPhone customers were, in fact, using the smartphone for work. How AT&T is spinning its iPhone sales

Given that AT&Ts network already seems to be creaking under the load of millions of iPhone users checking their email, watching YouTube and uploading new LOLcats, “unlimited” really was an offer too good to last. AT&T is announcing changes to it’s iPhone and iPad data plans that try to wean data-hungry users off the all-you-can-eat plans. AT&T starts putting the brakes on unlimited iPhone/iPad data

A new software bundle called Smokescreen promises to bring Flash animations and interactivity to the iPad and iPhone by converting them into JavaScript on the fly. Smokescreen brings Flash to the iPhone