China Mobile Still Pushing Apple to Adopt TD-SCDMA for iPhone

The Financial Times reports (registration required) that China Mobile continues to express interest in bringing the iPhone to its network, but that little progress has been made on convincing Apple to ado...

Apple Keeping Tight Wraps on iPad as Lucky Developers Gain Restricted Access

Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports that select developers have been provided access to the iPad ahead of its official April 3rd launch, allowing them the opportunity to build and test their application directly on the device rather than having to...

Novothink Solar Surge for iPhone and iPod touch debuts

The Solar Surge is a slip on case that is a bit reminiscent of the Mophie Juice Pack with an open top. The Surge has a solar panel on the back and an internal lithium ion battery that provides extra run time for your iPhonw. The Solar Surge can also be ...

DJ Anywhere with Cue.Play.DJ. - World Class Digital DJing for the iPhone

Capsulated Software Ltd., today announces the availability of Cue.Play.DJ. 1.0, the most advanced digital DJing solution ever created for the iPhone OS platform. CUE.PLAY.DJ has the needs of existing DJs in mind, offering a familiar interface and feature-set comparable to existing desktop digital DJ solutions costing hundreds of dollars, while ...

Magic Card 2.0.1 - Clever iPhone Illusion used by Pro Magicians On Sale

Most iPhone magic apps use unsatisfying virtual playing cards, but Renditions Design's "Magic Card" uses a real deck of cards and the iPhone's camera to create the convincing illusion that Apple's amazing device came with the power to see through cards. Although popular with professional magicians, the clever secret is ...

BlackBerry Users Willing to Swap for an iPhone

BlackBerry is still the most popular smartphone brand in terms of market share, Crowd Science's study shows, but many Research In Motion devices users would be more than happy to move to a different smartphone platform if given the chance. The study also found that the majority of smartphone users claim ...

Facetwin memory game uses your pictures or pictures of people you know.

Facetwin is a memory match game that pulls its pictures from your friend's Facebook pics. The photos are always changing and usually quite interesting because of this. The first round of Facetwin is easy. Just three pictures to match up. Every time you finish a level successfully, more images are added ...

PasswordWallet 4.5 for Mac and iPhone - All New MobileMe Sync

Selznick Scientific Software, LLC today is pleased to announce the release of PasswordWallet 4.5, a major update to their best-selling Macintosh and iPhone password management solution. The app now allows the user to automatically sync all passwords between their Mac, iPhone and MobileMe accounts, as well as their Windows (now ...

wuonm introduces DisCover 1.0 for iPhone

wuonm just released DisCover 1.0, their one tap music player for iPhone, iPod and iPad devices. DisCover allows anyone to add icons onto the home screen using artwork from their music library. The album can be played by simply tapping the created icon on their springboard. Feature highlights include: * Unlimited number ...

Tally-O brings a world of adventure to the iPhone

Tally-O brings a world of adventure to the iPhone. The Tally-O 1.1 update, just released, adds an exciting set of new features and refinements to the app, making it a must-have for travelers, scavenger hunters and geocaching fans, and anyone that enjoys exploring unique places in the world. Tally-O searches for ...

Plants 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch - Plant Care Made Easy

Tuparev Technologies today is pleased to introduce Plants 1.0 for the iPhone and iPod touch. The Plants application consists of a photo reference guide to plants, and a plant maintenance scheduler. Using its simple, stylish interface, the user can easily provide all her plants at multiple locations with individualized care. ...

52 Ways to Promote Your iPhone App

Publicist and Internet Marketing Specialist Scott Lorenz has compiled a list of 52 tips on how to promote an iPhone App - tips he garnered from his extensive experience as a public relations professional in promoting all types of products, inventions, books and services. Apple has almost 150,000 iPhone applications ...

Windows Phone 7 mirrors iPhone missing features

As more details emerge regarding the upcoming Windows Phone 7 series, it seems to be defined more by the features and functions it lacks.

Intel Experiencing Shortages of Notebook Chips?

DigiTimes reports that Intel is currently experiencing tight supply of its Core i3, i5, and i7 notebook chips introduced in January. Apple is expected to use several of the chips in a highly-anticipated ...

TiPb Apps 5.5: Creature24 (GDC 2010)

Live from GDC 2010, Rene talks to Bob Koon of Binary Hammer about the Creature24 project that tried to make a complete, polished iPhone game in 24 hours.

The goal of Creature24 was to create a real, polished iPhone game in 24 hrs, transparently on the internet. They didn’t make their deadline, but were valiant in the attempt. They’re going to complete the game, and perhaps do an iPad version of the challenge (with a slightly expanded time limit) next year.

Watch along after the break!

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BugMe brings sticky notes to your home screen

Electric Pocket’s BugMe allows you to jot down on stick notes with your fingers and have them displayed on the home screen.

One More Build of Mac OS X 10.6.3 Seeded to Developers

iPhone in Canada yesterday reported that Apple has seeded Build 10D572 of Mac OS X 10.6.3 to developers. The new release comes just two days after the previous seed and carries only a single increment in...

iPad is coming, but where are the content deals?

The Wall Street Journal reports that, with the iPad arriving in stores and on doorsteps in just a few weeks, Apple is still “scrambling” to secure content deals for their magical and revolutionary new device. Why?

Apple hasn’t yet reached a deal with many major TV producers on the price cut, these people said. Some are concerned a price cut could hurt their existing businesses, these people said, including jeopardizing the tens of billions of dollars in subscription fees they are paid by cable and satellite companies for their traditional TV networks.

At the same time, some magazine and newspaper publishers said they are hamstrung by several factors that could delay the apps they are developing for the iPad from being ready by the time of the device’s release.

iBooks is the exception, but is it because book publishers are smarter, more desperate for the digital age, or just softened by existing devices like the Kindle? 9to5Mac provides our favorite answer to why TV and other companies aren’t racing to embrace the iPad: they’re self-destructively crazy (via the Viacom vs. Youtube lawsuit):

For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately “roughed up” the videos to make them look stolen or leaked. It opened YouTube accounts using phony email addresses. It even sent employees to Kinko’s to upload clips from computers that couldn’t be traced to Viacom. And in an effort to promote its own shows, as a matter of company policy Viacom routinely left up clips from shows that had been uploaded to YouTube by ordinary users. Executives as high up as the president of Comedy Central and the head of MTV Networks felt “very strongly” that clips from shows like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report should remain on YouTube.

Viacom’s efforts to disguise its promotional use of YouTube worked so well that even its own employees could not keep track of everything it was posting or leaving up on the site. As a result, on countless occasions Viacom demanded the removal of clips that it had uploaded to YouTube, only to return later to sheepishly ask for their reinstatement. In fact, some of the very clips that Viacom is suing us over were actually uploaded by Viacom itself.

Dear Hollywood, hire some young, new-media savvy executives, sign deals with Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc. Give us your content, your TV shows, movies, magazines, newspapers, comic books, and everything else at a fair price and under fair terms, and we’ll give you our money with ridiculous abandon. Everyone will be happy. B’okay?

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Apple Developing iGroups Social Networking App for iPhone? — Patent Watch

According to Patently Apple, Apple is laying the foundations for a potential iGroups app that would allow like-minded iPhone (or iPod touch and iPad users, presumably) to set up MobileMe-powered social networks at events like WWDC (Apple’s yearly World Wide Developers Conference).

The idea is to allow groups of friends or colleagues attending such events as a concert, a tradeshow, business meeting, wedding or rally to stay in communication with each other as a group to share information or reactions to live events as they’re occurring. The technology behind the new iGroup social networking applications works with a very sophisticated cryptographic key generation system to ensure security and privacy of your communications. Interestingly, the patent states that if one of the devices in your group happens to be without true positioning technology, it appears that Apple’s MobileMe service will provide some sort of “virtual GPS” capability to that user so that they could be aware of the locations of others in the group. Apple’s patent provides us with example scenarios of both a concert and WWDC event to clarify the service. This marks Apple’s fourth social networking application made public since the start of 2010 – which clearly indicates that Apple now has this hot new sector in its crosshairs.

As with anything Apple patent-related, whether or not it ever makes its way in front of consumers is anyone’s guess. Still, this looks interesting and given how other companies and devices are embracing the social experience, it’s something Apple has to be paying attention to.

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Review: Grand Theft Auto for iPhone

Rockstar Games doesn't do anything half-way, and the first iPhone version of its Grand Theft Auto series is no exception. The game for the iPhone and iPod touch is a big, ugly, raw title that's huge in scale and depth.