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Apple on Thursday added support for its App Store to 13 additional countries.
This is a very big day for us here at The Loop. Today we entered into a strategic partnership with freshcode, makers of Bodega.
Apple has some of the best selling computers in the market, it’s the No. 1 music distributor, it sells movies, TV shows, iPods and it’s changing the mobile space with the iPhone and App Store. It’s also one of the most copied companies in the world, but can anyone beat them?
Apple on Tuesday revealed iTunes’ list of top selling media from the iTunes Store in a new feature called iTunes Rewind 2009.
I’ve been a vocal critic of Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch App Store approval process. I’m as frustrated with some of the decisions as anyone and tend to speak my mind, but recent comments from Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, Phil Schiller, have me rethinking my position.
As competition heats up in the mobile phone space from companies like Google and Motorola, a new study points to Apple’s iPod touch as the company’s secret weapon.
The iPhone and iPod touch both make great handheld gaming systems. The iPhone 3GS and latest-generation iPod touch sport some under-the-hood improvements that make games load faster and perform better than before. Here’s a roundup of thirty games that will keep you busy into the wee hours with your iPhone or iPod touch.
eBay on Monday released a new app for the iPhone and iPod touch called Deals, giving users the ability to find the best deals on eBay.
After a few pretenders and some bona fide music games in their own right have made appearances on the App Store, EA Mobile has released a real version of Rock Band, the popular music rhythm game, for the iPhone and iPod touch. It’s available for download now for $10.
In a note sent to iPhone developers on Thursday and seen by The Loop, Apple gave the thumbs-up to in-app purchases for free apps.
Sonos on Tuesday expanded its multi-room music system catalog with the new ZonePlayer S5, a new wireless music system that works with iTunes and uses the iPhone or iPod touch as a controller. It costs $399 and will be available later this month.
Asbury Park, NJ. Coney Island, NY. Santa Cruz, Calif. All of these places conjure a very specific and very American sense of having fun — fun at old-style arcades just like you’d find on the carnival midway or boardwalk near the beach. I want to draw your attention to two recently-released products on the App [...]
I’m depressed to realize I actually find this app useful, but my vision is going. Too many years of toiling away in dimly lit monasteries working on illuminated manuscript, I expect.
With over 65,000 apps available, and 1.5 billion downloaded in its first year, Apple’s App Store is being touted as one of the main reasons for the success of the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G.
Apple executives were probably hoping for a little break from the spotlight, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen. Word came on Monday that RealNetworks is going to submit its Rhapsody iPhone app to Apple for approval.
I was sitting among 90,000 people at an AC/DC concert on Thursday when news broke that Apple’s Phil Schiller had responded to media reports saying Apple had censored a dictionary in order for it to be included in the App Store.
Apple on Thursday took the unusual step of responding to a story about an iPhone app that had reportedly been censored by Apple to get into the App Store.
Lollapalooza, one of the U.S.’s biggest festivals, is just three days away. If you’re planning to attend this year’s multi-day music event and you have an iPhone, there’s some good news for you.
Apple’s App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch has been hugely successful, and now IDFusion is going to try to do the same thing for the Mac with a new app called Bodega.
It’s not much, but it’s something. iPhone app developers on Saturday got a little gift from Apple when they logged into their accounts — estimated approval times.