Skype en route to iPhones

Skype (who is owned by eBay) may be launching their own iPhone app. This coming during the CTIA trade show in Las Vegas scheduled for next week. The company is hosting a press conference Tuesday afternoon in Las Vegas the day before the CTIA show kicks off. Although there is no ...

Skype for iPhone Coming Soon

Just when you thought the VOIP client for iPhone arena couldn't get any more crowded, VOIP giant Skype has hinted that an iPhone version of its P2P voice and IM service is coming. That's not all of the good news, what's more is that it should be arriving in the ...

iPhone app lets users take learning on the go

Blackboard Inc. released a free application that lets iPhone users take learning on the go by accessing their course information. This application is available to all Blackboard clients running the Blackboard Learning System license, Release 7.1 or higher or Blackboard Learn, Release 9.0. With the application, millions of students and learners ...

Skype for iPhone now live in US

It's finally here, and even a few minutes early. Skype for iPhone is now available in the US iTunes store, free of charge. We've heard great thing from the folks in Japan who've been fiddling with it for the last twelve hours. Let us know what you think -- betcha wish you could ditch that AT&T voice plan now, huh?

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Skype for iPhone now live in US originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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UPDATED: Skype for iPhone Coming Tomorrow Now Live!

UPDATE: Skype seems to be live now in the US App Store. If you find it in any other App Store’s please let us know in the comments. (Nothing in Canada yet).

[Thanks daveizzle for the tip!]

ORIGINAL: Skype for the iPhone (and second generation iPod touch), rumored last week by Om Malik, is now confirmed by the WSJ as coming to the iTunes App Store tomorrow.

Skype, the popular VoIP (voice over IP) service that sends telephone calls via the internet, will be WiFi only for calls, of course (carriers will protect their income by keeping it off 3G), but you can IM chat anywhere. How does it stack up to existing apps like Fring that already offer VoIP support? CNet, which has an early review up, quotes Skype a saying:

what the other apps use is a workaround that requires them to channel calls through a server and transcode audio, resulting in poorer-quality calls than Skype can do in its own app.

GigaOm seems pleased:

SkypeIn and SkypeOut, along with Skype Chat, are the key features of this new version of the Skype application. This is a native P2P application for the iPhone and the iPod touch. It allows group chats and conference calls and is tightly integrated with Apple’s Address Book.

Gizmodo, by contrast, thinks:

Third party apps like Fring picked up Skype’s slack a long time ago, and lump in multiprotocol IMing, something which gives them a distinct advantage over this official client on the one-app-at-a-time-please iPhone.

[Thanks to John and Icebike for sending this in! And no, we'd have mentioned Om again anyway, even though it would be great if he'd yell at us over Twitter...]

Our own editor-in-chief, Dieter Bohn will be live at CTIA 2009, where the official announcement is expected, so if anything else breaks, he’ll let us know. Meanwhile, anyone setting their alarm-clocks to download?

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UPDATED: Skype for iPhone Coming Tomorrow Now Live!

Official Skype App is Now Available in the App Store

Skype, Inc. has just released their official Skype application for the iPhone and iPod touch.

Skype is a very popular voice-over-IP (VOIP) and instant messaging application that allows you to make phone calls over the internet. Call...

First Look: MLB.com At Bat 2009

Filed under: Software, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch

Opening Day of the Major League Baseball 2009 season is just around the corner, and MLB.com At Bat 2009 (click opens iTunes) has been released. Beware -- this post contains bad baseball metaphors.

This year's app has all the tools. After you agree to a list of Terms and Conditions as lengthy as a major-league player contract, a list of all of the games currently in progress or scheduled for the day appears. Starting on April 6th, every game will have Gameday enabled, which lets you view stats and a pitch by pitch recap of what's happening. Tapping a player's name brings up a virtual baseball card, complete with career and season stats and a line score for the game in progress.

Also on April 6th, a new feature will touch all the bases -- live Gameday Audio from either the home or visiting team radio announcers streamed to your iPhone. As with last year's At Bat app, you'll be able to pull up video clips of games shortly after key plays occur.

Do you miss plays while buying a beer or standing in line for the men's room? No problem, since the app also has a live box score.

MLB.com At Bat 2009 hits a home run! You can get the entire season (including postseason play) for US$9.99. Note that you'd pay $14.99 for just the Gameday audio on MLB.com. There's also a rookie (lite) version available for free that doesn't include the streaming audio. Check out the gallery below.

First Look: MLB.com At Bat 2009 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

First Look: MLB.com At Bat 2009 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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DirecTV beams down iPhone app

Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touch

Long rumored and eagerly awaited, DirecTV has finally posted their free iPhone app for finding and recording content. The DirecTV app [App Store link] has been pretty hard to find. It didn't come up in an iTunes search last night and this morning, but that may have been fixed.

Locating programming is much faster and friendlier than using the iPhone friendly web page that had been the way to look at the DirecTV schedule.

The new app allows you to search for any shows up to 14 days in advance. You can browse the DirecTV schedule by date and time or by channel. You can select from multiple DVRs if you have them, and you can record a single episode of a program or a series.

The app runs on either the iPhone or iPod touch with version 2.2.1 software or above. You can search the schedule even if you're not a DirecTV subscriber, but if you want to trigger recordings you must use your DirecTV password. I set up a few tests and all the recording worked, one DVR request was made 2 minutes before the program started and the data made it to the DVR via satellite in time to catch the show.

I liked the old web-based method, but this is light years better. You get good program descriptions and ratings when available, and speed over the 3G network or even EDGE was quite usable.

Note: DirecTV says the app requires DIRECTV Plus(R) DVR (models R15, R16, R22), DIRECTV Plus(R) HD DVR (models HR20, HR21, HR23) or TiVo(R) Series 2 receivers with 6.4a software.

DirecTV beams down iPhone app originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

DirecTV beams down iPhone app originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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DIRECTV Announces iPhone App: Search, Browse, Get Info, Record, Program PPV

DIRECTV for the iPhone is now live in the iTunes App Store. Features include:

• Search for any television show up to 14 days in advance
• Browse programs by channel or date & time
• Get program information instantly, including description, length and rating
• Record a single episode or an entire series
• Program Pay Per View movies to be recorded and ready to watch anytime
• Record to any DIRECTV DVR in your home

Any DIRECTV iPhone users giving it a try? How’s it working for you?

[Via Engadget Mobile]

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DIRECTV Announces iPhone App: Search, Browse, Get Info, Record, Program PPV

Giveaway: four lucky winners to get Agile Messenger for iPhone/iPod touch

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We'll have a head-to-head comparison of the just-released Agile Messenger [App Store link] versus Beejive in a few days, but why not test drive Agile Messenger yourself first? Four lucky winners will get to do just that, courtesy Agile and TUAW. Just tell us which chat protocol you prefer (AIM, Jabber, Yahoo, etc.) and we'll pick four winners at random. Sorry, we've got to limit the winners to the US, as promo codes don't work anywhere else.

• Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 and older. (Sorry, we know our international readers want to participate, but promo codes don't transfer outside the US.)
• To enter leave a comment telling us your preferred IM protocol (AIM, Jabber, etc.).
• The comment must be left before April 3, 11:59PM Eastern Time.
• You may enter only once.
• Four winners will be selected in a random drawing.
• Prize: Promo code for free copy of Agile Messenger for iPhone (US$9.99).
• Click Here for complete Official Rules.

Giveaway: four lucky winners to get Agile Messenger for iPhone/iPod touch originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Giveaway: four lucky winners to get Agile Messenger for iPhone/iPod touch originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sponsored Post: Covertec Leather Pouch Case for iPhone 3G

Sponsored Post: Covertec Leather Pouch Case for iPhone 3G

Made from the finest nappa leather this luxury case from Covertec will keep your iPhone 3G protected with style.

The case features natural beige overstitching and the inside is reinforced with heavy duty synthetic material. This distinctive case also includes a fully removable belt clip.

Covertec Leather Pouch Case for iPhone 3G is available from TiPb’s iPhone Store…

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Ghostbusters Coming to iPhone

Ok, don’t worry, the above image is actually from Activisions version of Ghostbusters for the Apple II that appeared in 1984 and not from this upcoming version. Most Ghostbuster fans out there are aware that the Ghostbusters are making their comeback this June on all of the major video game consoles with the original cast doing the voice acting. Well, most of you will be excited to know that your favorite ghostbusting trio will be making an appearance on the iPhone this June as well. Details are pretty much nil at the moment though hopefully Sony Pictures does it justice.

Sony says the Ghostbusters iPhone game will see you playing as the traditional team from the Ghostbusters movies, tackling New York borough by borough, trapping pesky poltergeists and stopping innocent citizens from being slimed. Think Halloween Harry, only with Ghostbusters’ Peter Venkman deadpanning it all the way through.

It should be interesting to see how the developers take advantage of the iPhones accelerometer in terms of control. So what do all of the fans think of this comeback? This is pretty big for those of us who here at TiPb grew up in the 1980’s, so we’re pretty excited to this game is coming.

[Via Electricpig]

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Ghostbusters Coming to iPhone

Skype for iPhone Available on App Store

Review: Tumblr for iPhone

After its acquisition and rebranding by the folks behind Tumblr, the renamed Tumblr app for the iPhone and iPod touch makes mobile posting to the blogging platform easier than ever.

iPhone Wins Gadget of the Year, Smartphone of the Year at Engadget Awards

Yep, the iPhone has won Engadget’s Gadget of the Year and Smartphone of the Year awards, not just from the editors, but from the readers as well. That’s quadrupal honors for those keeping score at home.

For the Engadget Awards in general, the editors also picked the unibody MacBook, and iPod touch (handheld and portable), and gave the BlackBerry Storm the worst gadget honors. Readers, meanwhile went far more Apple, with for iMac, unibody MacBook, 24″ LED Cinema Display, the iPod touch (for both handheld and portable), and Time Capsule for storage. Zune was worst gadget.

TiPb’s own Editor Awards and Reader’s Choice Awards were handed out on New Year and Oscar Sunday respectively.

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iPhone Wins Gadget of the Year, Smartphone of the Year at Engadget Awards

Macworld 2010 Changes Dates to February 9-13

Macworld has just sent out an email telling interested parties that they’re changing the dates for their annual Expo from the traditional early January, to roughly a month later:

As we began the planning process for 2010, the Mac community - exhibitors, attendees, media and fans of the show - made it clear that February would be a more ideal time to hold the event, so we listened. The Conference programs are scheduled for Tuesday through Saturday, February 9 - 13 and the Expo will be held Thursday through Saturday, February 11-13th.

Now that Apple will no longer be attending Macworld, of course, not going up against the juggernaut that is CES — which is already, and controversially, wooing Mac and iPhone exhibitors — could also be A Good Thing.

On our end, we’re wondering if, between CES, Macworld, MWC, and CTIA we’re going to have to clone Dieter sooner than we anticipated! Were you thinking of attending Macworld 2010? Do the new dates make you more likely to attend now? And are there too many iPhone-involved shows too closely lumped together now?

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Macworld 2010 Changes Dates to February 9-13

Macworld Expo 2010 to be Held February 9th-13th

IDG announced today on its Macworld Expo page and in an e-mail to previous attendees that the 2010 event will take place from February 9th through 13th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

IDG World Expo announced today that Macwor...

Skype for iPhone goes live in Japan

When they said "Tuesday," they meant it. Not long ago, the clock struck midnight in the Land of the Rising Sun, and sure enough, the bona fide Skype application for Apple's iPhone has gone live. It's absolutely free to download, but early reports from Japan haven't been totally awesome. We're told that a "No Microphone" error popped up when trying to use the iPhone 3G's built-in mic and speaker -- which may or may not be related to using iPhone OS 3.0 before it's good and ready -- but that sound quality was super when using an external headphone / mic setup. We're fully expecting it to roll out elsewhere as Tuesday (March 31st) arrives in various time zones, so make sure you (and at least one Skype buddy) stay up late to try 'er out.

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Skype for iPhone goes live in Japan originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Wolfenstein 3D coming to iPhone

id Software today launched its classic Wolfenstein 3D for the iPhone and iPod Touch users. The iPhone version of classic 1991 Nazi-hunting PC game that launched the first-person shooter genre is available on the iTunes App Store for $4.99. "Play the legendary original games that launched the first person shooter genre. ...

App Store features Independent Games Festival entrants

The App Store now has a page featuring IGF Mobile Game Awards finalists and winners.