Where did all the iPhones go? [Updated]

There's not an iPhone to be had -- not even for ready money -- at the flagship Apple stores in New York City, Chicago, Miami or San Francisco, according to a telephone checks conducted by AppleInsider.

Readers doing their own surveys reported stores running out in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Texas.

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster called 20 Apple stores across the county on Wednesday and found no iPhones anywhere. Zero.

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CTIA wireless trade show kicks off in Las Vegas

By Michal Lev-Ram

LAS VEGAS -- The CTIA wireless trade show kicked off Tuesday morning with a slew of keynote speeches by Federal Communications Chairman Kevin Martin, Sprint (S) CEO Dan Hesse, Virgin Mobile founder Richard Branson and Robert Bach, president of Microsoft's (MSFT) entertainment and devices division.

The Las Vegas-based wireless confab attracts more than 1,000 companies – including phone manufacturers, chip makers and mobile operators – and an estimated MORE

iPhone scores 79% in customer satisfaction survey; RIM trails at 54%

Three pictures from the latest ChangeWave smartphone survey offer good news for Apple, mixed news for Research in Motion and terrible news for Palm. All three are from a survey of 3,597 high-end consumers conducted between March 17 and March 24. See here.

The first shows current market share among the respondents. Apple's (AAPL) upward climb is accelerating, RIM (RIMM) is easing slightly but still holding its own, and Palm (PALM) MORE

Happy 32nd birthday, Apple

The iPod touch exemplifies Apple's maturity. Image: Jon Fortt

Corporate birthdays aren't often celebrated unless they're multiples of five; but since Apple (AAPL) is so popular and its birthday falls on April Fool's Day, it's easier to remember.

So today, Apple turns 32. CEO Steve Jobs is fond of recounting how the company started in his parents' garage, a location that was an obvious homage to Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), the original Silicon Valley MORE

Microsoft willing to wait on Yahoo

By Scott Moritz

In the absence of a bidding war for Yahoo! (YHOO), Microsoft (MSFT) stands pat on its original $42 billion buyout offer.

Seeing no reason to bid against itself, Microsoft looks willing to wait it out, according to a report Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal.

The news comes two weeks after Yahoo argued that it deserved a higher bid in a 37-page presentation that highlighted strong cash flow projections, MORE

Analyst: Apple's U.S. consumer market share now 21 percent

The iPhone gets the most press and the iPod sells in the largest quantities, but it's the Macintosh that really drives Apple's growth, says Gene Munster.

In the second installment of a multipart report on Apple's "3 Cylinder Engine," Piper Jaffray's chief Apple (AAPL) analyst looks at the Mac business over the next couple of years and likes what he sees. In particular:

Growth: After Apple introduced the Intel Macs, Mac sales MORE