Apple Should Approve Fewer But Better iPhone Apps
PC World - Fri Dec 4, 11:12 am ETWith IDC predicting the iPhone App Store could top 300,000 apps next year, perhaps the race for numbers should end.
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With IDC predicting the iPhone App Store could top 300,000 apps next year, perhaps the race for numbers should end.
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.
I often don't need to say anything more than a good Twittelator post can't handle, especially when the iPhone is my weapon of choice. But for more than 140 characters, I look to publish to one of my blogs. So I decided to test two blogging apps, CLT Studio'sBlogPress and VirtueSoft.com's BlogWriter, in a no-holds-barred iPhone blogging tools shoot out.
If you'd like use your iPhone or iPod touch to keep your blog up-to-date, both BlogPress and BlogWriter offer some appealing tools. But only one can come out on top in our head-to-head showdown of mobile blogging apps.
It's not often that trendsetting Apple falls behind the times, but Steve Jobs and company are slacking off where video calls are concerned. Just this week Tel Aviv-based Fringland updated its Fring app (free at Apple's app store or Fringland.com) that allows both voice and two-way video phone-calling via WiFi. Sounds straight outta Star Trek, right? Well, not if you have an iPhone. The app ...
The UK Department of Health has launched a new iPhone application to help people keep track of their drinking during the festive period. This is the first official alcohol tracker app for mobile phones and is available from iTunes and the NHS Choices website.
Once a game for click-wheel iPods, Song Summoner has made the transition over to the iPhone and iPod touch.
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.
Motorola has released a new ad for the Motorola Droid that likens the iPhone to a “tiara-wearing digitally clueless beauty pageant queen.” Although the commercial does not specifically mention the iPhone by name, it shows images of an iPhone-like device being admired by superficial stereotypes such as a blond woman holding a phone in front of her as she crosses the street and applies lip gloss ...
Blacksmith Games launched its Appvent Calendar 09 Web site at the beginning of December to offer free iPhone and iPod touch games during the holiday season. Site visitors will be treated to a different game each day up through December 24.
Hearst today provided details of a new digital publishing system it hopes will make digital text more widespread. Skiff will have a store as well as an underlying gateway that lets Hearst and other firms both collect ad revenue from all their sources as well as adapt the same book, magazine or newspaper to a variety of formats. A single work could be reformatted to work with an iPhone, dedicated ...
Interestingly designed, the new Sparkz Dock Projector for iPhone + iPod ($459, aka Docking Charging Projector) is a small, egg-shaped combination video projector and dock that includes its own tripod, power adapter, and twin video cables for attachment to composite or VGA video sources. With stereo speakers and a 3M projector inside, the unit boasts 640x480 and 1024x768 modes, a 15-lumens lamp ...
Welcome to this week’s second catch-up edition of iPhone Gems. We’re continuing to work through a large number of recent game releases for the iPhone and iPod touch, and today have three new titles to share with you: the three-dimensional airplane shooter Ace Combat Xi, the ball-and-maze game Labyrinth 2, and the tank warfare game Project Phoenix. The clear pick of this bunch is Labyrinth 2, but ...
As the ecosystem around iPhone apps continues to explode, the opportunity for advertising and monetization grows simultaneously. There are been an abundance of mobile and specifically iPhone centric ad-networks that have emerged, like AdMob (which was acquired by Google a few weeks ago), Greystripe, InMobi and others, to help developers make money from advertising on aps. And ad exchange ...
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.
These patent lawsuit stories are basically madlibs anyway, so what the hell: ST CLAIR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CONSULTANTS has sued APPLE COMPUTER over CAMERA TECHNOLOGY in the IPHONE. They have a...
Realski is the latest ski-related iPhone application.
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 ...