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With Apple's decision to release the tools necessary to develop iPhone apps, developers have taken our favorite mobile device to places you wouldn't expect. Ocarina encouraged iPhone users to think of their phone as a unique musical instrument. Now, academia wants to push that idea even further.
When award-winning tech entrepreneur and Santa Cruz sailor Philippe Kahn sails a grueling ocean race, his navigation bag holds something unexpected: an iPhone. A growing number of mobile applications, or "apps," are helping to keep boaters informed, on course...
Research firm IDC says Apple's App Store could stock in excess of a quarter million iPhone and iPod Touch applications, tripling current levels by the end of 2010. That's some number. Contrast with an estimated 10,000 Windows 7-compatible apps, over 700 (released as well as announced) Xbox 360 games, nearly 600 PS3 games, over 1,000 Wii games, over 600 DS games (from September 2008), and over ...
How can you get pornographic apps on your iPhone? By magic. The new Sex App Shop, run by a Las Vegas magician, uses a little-known mobile Safari feature to sell local apps outside of Apple's App Store.
In its latest, and perhaps harshest, assault on the iPhone, Verizon's Droid reserves much active bile for its alleged rival, while admitting that the Droid itself is not pretty.
It looks like we may soon need an iPhone application that keeps track of all the new iPhone applications.
Between the harmless but cautionary Rickrolling worm and the much less friendly iPhone/Privacy.A worm that was able to access personal data without any indication, iPhone jailbreaking has been getting a lot of coverage lately- though not necessarily the kind of coverage the community wants or needs. On top of the recent influx of worms, jailbreakers also have to worry about Apple's repeated ...
Song Summoner was originally released for the click-wheel iPod in July 2008, and presented a novel twist on the tactical RPG by affecting your soldiers (or "tune troopers" as they're called in the game) based on the music you have in your device's library. Square-Enix has now tweaked the game as Song Summoner: The Unsung Heroes - Encore (iTunes link) on the iPhone and iPod Touch. According to ...
The College of Charleston has a new way to show itself to prospective students: a tour of the school that can be downloaded for free to Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch.
Bowing to reality, Microsoft is working on a Bing iPhone app, although it won't say when the software will be ready or just which features it will have.
AVON, Colo. (AP) — Skiers stuck on a mountain with no trail map but with an iPhone 3GS in their pockets could get help finding their way with another iPhone application from a Colorado company.
Associated Press - December 4, 2009 4:34 AM ET AVON, Colo. (AP) - Skiers stuck on a mountain with no trail map but with an iPhone 3GS in their pockets could get help finding their way with...
OK, this is getting nasty. In their latest Droid Does TV ad, Verizon and Motorola clearly mock the iPhone as a self-obsessed beauty queen that may be pretty on the outside, but it’s slow on the inside. On the other hand, Droid is portrayed as a rough, fast, nasty, living-on-the-edge phone that cares less about looks and more about performance. “Should a phone be pretty,” the ad asks. “Should it ...
Verizon tonight cut deep by launching a new ad (seen below) for the Motorola Droid. The new spot directly attacks the iPhone and calls Apple's handset a "digitally clueless pageant queen," making fun of its focus on style and even mocking the glass case Apple used to display the phone at its launch in 2007. It meanwhile thrives on the Droid's powerful, masculine image and, among other things ...
SUMMIT COUNTY - iPhone and iPod Touch users considering whether to drive home after a few cocktails can get a better idea of their bodies' alcohol content through an application from the Colorado Department of Transportation. The "R-U-Buzzed BAC Calculator" figures weight, gender and how long one has been drinking to calculate an estimated blood alcohol concentration number. The estimate doesn't ...
Ohhh shit, y'all. This is getting dirty. Motorola/Verizon's newest Droid ad not only depicts the iPhone as a tiara-wearing, Sandra-Bullock-worshipping Barbie doll, it actually shows a clearly...
Looking for another way to listen to your favorite news program or gabfest on the go? Stitcher, an iPhone app that offers radio programs on demand, has upped the...
What's Your Reaction? The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library has come up with a new way for Reaganites to bask in the glory of Ronaldus Magnus: A free iPhone application!
( Cornell University ) Looking for larks? Searching for surfbirds? Checking for chickadees? There's an app for that. BirdsEye, a new application for the iPhone and the iPod touch, is now available.
The iPhone can be very beneficial for the person on the go. Many iPhone users claim that there is life before the iPhone and life after the iPhone. The iPhone’s creation has been an icon for this generation and it’s especially helped music lovers. Several applications allow you to “capture” a song, let you watch a [...]
Half a year after the official launch of Microsoft's Bing search engine, Bing still has no presence on the popular Apple App Store. The reason is pretty obvious: Microsoft would prefer you ditched your iPhone for a Windows-equipped handset. But in an interview Wednesday with CNET, Microsoft principal group program manager ...
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