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Risqué iPhone Game Finally Approved for App Store [del.icio.us]
Six months after being submitted for approval, IUGO Mobile Entertainment's A.D.D. - a package of mini-games ranging from silly to straight-up tasteless, finally has been cleared for sale on Apple's iTunes App Store....
iLingual\'s Virtual Phrasebook App Brings Us Closer to the Babel Fish ... [del.icio.us]
In Douglas Adams’s best-selling novel The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a space traveler could stick the Babel fish right into his ear, making it so he could understand speakers in any language. Emirates airlines’ iLingual iPhone app doesnâ€...
iPhone Hints: Access MobileMe site via iPhone [del.icio.us]
Honestly, we hope you never need this week’s iPhone tip, but just in case, you may be glad that you have it. Say you’re out shopping in this run-up to the holiday season and, when your back is turned, your iPhone mysterious vanishes—purloined b...
textPlus 2.0 Hits The App Store For Free Texting [del.icio.us]
textPlus, a text messaging app that’s powered by GOGII, has just hit the App Store. textPlus lets any iPhone or iPod Touch send free text messages to any cell number by using in-app advertising to cover its costs. There is no limit on how many text...
Black Friday 2009: Hunt for Deals from Your iPhone [del.icio.us]
If you’re determined to shake down some deals during the mother of all U.S. shopping days, then forgive the cliche when we tell you there’s an app for that. Powered by dealnews, the just-released version 2 of their Black Friday app (iTunes link) ...
Achtung! Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies infests iPhone [del.icio.us]
No doubt strategically timed between last week's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 launch and this week's Left 4 Dead 2 launch, Activision just announced Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies, a $9.99 iPhone game based on the zombie-themed multi...
Apple battles \'jailbreakers\' over iPhone control [del.icio.us]
When he was 17, George Hotz poured hundreds of hours of his summer vacation into a special project: learning the iPhone's secrets. His unpaid labor eventually paid off. With the help of a soldering iron, he was the first to unlock the iPhone, de...
Drive a car with an iPhone [del.icio.us]
… and now we’re driving cars with iPhones. We all know that texting and driving is distracting, but what about using your iPhone to actually drive a car? Someone actually figured out how to do this, and here’s the video. This seems nice and saf...
How do iPhone\'s location sensors work together to determine orientation ... [del.icio.us]
How do the iPhone's sensors work together to determine orientation? The answer is a little more complex than one might think. Here's a shorter answer over at O'Reilly Answers, here's the longer one at O'Reilly Radar. SPOILER:...
Worm Hits Jailbroken iPhones; Apple Plans Jailbreak Crackdown [del.icio.us]
A number of jailbroken iPhone owners in Australia have found their lock screen wallpaper replaced by Rick Astley, as the first real worm spreads itself around. That's just one more reason any jailbreaker should change their root password immedia...
Forget iPhone MMS, Share 100 Pictures In An Instant With Knocking [del.icio.us]
As we were all painfully aware, it took AT&T forever to bring MMS to the iPhone. A new app has just been released that hopes to one-up it. Knocking, made by Pointy Heads Software, is basically a photo-sharing app on steroids. With it, you can pr...
Google Serves Up Free Wi-Fi at 47 Airports for the Holidays [del.icio.us]
Holiday season air travel just got a little less crappy—freebie access starts today, and runs through to January 15. Read on for the full list of airports, and info on free Wi-Fi promos from Yahoo and Microsoft, too. You may also remember that Goo...
When It Comes To In-App Purchases On The iPhone, Games, Social Networking, And Books Rule [del.icio.us]
Now that in-app purchasing has been live for a few weeks in the iTunes App Store, and Apple is now ranking the top-grossing apps, whether they start out as free or paid, we have some initial data on what kinds of apps are pulling in the most money fr...
Mobile Application to Diagnose Disease by Hearing you Cough [del.icio.us]
Feeling a bit under the weather? Soon you'll be able to cough into your mobile phone for an instant diagnosis. A research firm called STAR Analytical Services is working to develop software that can analyze the sound of a cough and identify it a...
App Store officially passes 100,000 app mark [del.icio.us]
We’ve known it was coming for a while now, but the milestone has finally been passed: Apple announced on Wednesday that the App Store now boasts more than 100,000 applications available for download. And download the people have, more than two bill...
Apple Stores Will Use iPod Touches as Checkouts [del.icio.us]
Until now, the Apple Stores have used Windows CE-based handheld computers to check out your purchases. The convenience of not having to queue at a counter to pay meant that Steve Jobs has doubtless spent the last few years squirming that his company ...
The Price Is Wrong: 13 Overpriced iPhone Apps [del.icio.us]
We love apps on the iPhone. Lurve them. They are capable of keeping track of your budget, translating foreign languages and even delivering ample doses of cow bell. But we can’t give every app out there a ringing endorsement. More than a few stinke...
New Study Paints iPhone Owners as Materialistic, Fickle Egomaniacs [del.icio.us]
Are iPhone users really that bad? We're not buying it. It's odd that a consumer electronics outlet would sponsor a study that paints such a lousy picture of iPhone owners, but that's exactly what shopping site Retrevo.com has done. (Pe...
Doom Classic soon to hurt us plenty on iPhone [del.icio.us]
An electronic device isn't a game machine these days until it passes the crucial "Does it run Doom" test. John Carmack has been hard at work on Doom Classic, an official port of id Software's groundbreaking FPS for iPhone, and now...
Gmail for iPhone gets \'never-ending\' compose box [del.icio.us]
Even with the most practiced digits, composing long e-mail on the iPhone's virtual keyboard is the slow, awkward pits compared with typing on a desktop keyboard. However, Google released a small new feature on Monday just for long-winded iPhone ...
eBay-toting iPhone users like to Buy It Now [del.icio.us]
eBay, the Internet’s garage sale or auction house, depending on your point of view, is reaping the benefits of having a free iPhone app. According to this Financial Times report, users of eBay’s iPhone app have spent over $400 million over a vari...
WOW: iPhone Reaches 100,000 Approved Apps [del.icio.us]
It hasn’t been publicly announced by Apple, who like pointing out milestones that make them look great, but if you look at the stats over at unofficial iPhone App directory App Shopper, there are currently 101,751 approved apps available for the iP...
The Next App Store: Google Wave [del.icio.us]
Google Wave may still be in its infancy, but it’s already looking towards the future – a future that includes monetization. And part of that monetization will apparently come from an iPhone (or Android)-like app store, where developers can market...
Augmented Reality App Shows Recovery.gov Funding Near You [del.icio.us]
Want to see who got part of the hundreds of billions of dollars in Recovery.gov funds near you? Now you can point your iPhone 3Gs or Android phone in any direction and see the closest recipients, thanks to the publication of the official data set ont...
Verizon has iPhone envy [del.icio.us]
Verizon Communications CEO Ivan Seidenberg said Monday during the company's third-quarter conference call that the wireless operator would be more than happy to have the iPhone on its network. But he said it wasn't up to Verizon. "This...
Inexplicably expensive iPhone accessory (video stabilizer) [del.icio.us]
This is a $300 "professional" video grip for the iPhone 3Gs. However, I can't imagine any "professional" choosing to shoot video with their iPhone, much less have a KIT to do it....
Harvard Medical School Launches Swine Flu iPhone App [del.icio.us]
As the threat of the swine flu (otherwise known as H1N1) pandemic become more serious and President Obama declares a national emergency over the rapidly spreading virus, Harvard Medical School is hoping to help educate people with its new iPhone app....
IBM Debuts Food Traceability iPhone App [del.icio.us]
Today at the IBM Information on Demand event, IBM will demo a new app that will bring the Internet of Things to the iPhone. The as yet unreleased iPhone app is called Breadcrumbs and it will give consumers access to information about grocery food ite...
How Moms Use Their iPhones [del.icio.us]
According to a new survey by mobile advertising network Greystripe, mothers with iPhones regularly let their children use their phones, download games specifically for their children, and often use their phones at grocery stores to compare prices and...
The Problem With iPhone Killers… [del.icio.us]
Here we are again. The hype leading up to a new mobile device is reaching a fever pitch. Motorola’s Droid sounds, looks, and by some accounts, is impressive. As such, everyone’s favorite superlative is being thrown out there once again: “iPhone...
