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There are a lot of great apps for the iPhone, but to experience the ultimate in cool apps you have to look for those built to utilize the newest technologies in the iPhone 4. Apple included a built-in three-axis gyroscope, an accelerometer and the retina display in the new iPhone, allowing users to experience apps [...]
Customers of Citigroup may want to update their iPhone banking app as soon as possible. The bank on Monday warned the app had a security flaw and needs updating.
Apple rejects iPhone app for using its RSS feed
Apple rejected apps in the past and after looking at some of them, I can see their point. Apple has rules and they have the right to accept or reject whatever they want. However, on Friday Apple rejected a movie trailer app because there is no public API for trailers. Well, that’s true, but it’s [...]
Apple on Tuesday released a new app for its users built specifically for the iPhone and iPod touch.
Like many people on Wednesday, I downloaded the new free Twitter for iPhone app as soon as it was released. I’ve already made my decision, I’m sticking with Twitterrific.
IK Multimedia is bringing the guitar to the iPhone. The maker of amp and effects modeling software, AmpliTube, on Thursday said it would bring the software to the iPhone with a hardware interface, called iRig.
The antitrust probe into Apple’s business practices in the U.S. started after Adobe complained to the government, according to reports published on Tuesday.
Apple’s decision to require developers to use its tools to program apps for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch could have it in hot water with federal regulators.
Apple is on quite a buying spree this week. The company’s newest reported acquisition is mobile app assistant firm, Siri.
Google on Thursday said it would bring free turn-by-turn navigation to Apple’s iPhone. The revelation came during a press conference in the U.K. where the company announced the feature for Android phones.
Adobe caused quite a stir when it first introduced its iPhone app building technology in Flash CS5, but it seems the company will abandon it before anyone really gets a chance to utilize it.
One of the Mac industry’s long time developers, TLA Systems, has brought its RPN calculator, PCalc, to the iPad.
One of the guitar resources I use the most on the Web, Ultimate-Guitar.com, has jumped into the iPhone app business.
More on iPhone app review payola
There’s been a lot of talk since last week when it came to light that some iPhone app review sites were charging developers to do reviews of their products. Shawn King and I talked about this last night on Your Mac Life — readers should go to sites they trust. As a reader, I don’t [...]
A promising new music app is making its way to the iPhone and iPod touch on Tuesday from Wonder Warp Software.
GDC: Ngmoco on building Eliminate for iPhone
The Game Developers Conference is this week in San Francisco and there is a lot going on. Of course, Peter Cohen is reporting from the show, but our friends at TUAW.com have some great coverage too. One article that got my attention today is about a panel lead by Ngmoco discussing how they built Eliminate. [...]
It’s a big part of the world we live in these days — jobs are scarce and when you do find something, the competition is fierce.
iPhone, Android users fall for botnet scam
I suppose this is a good argument for why Apple wants to have control of the apps that people have access to on the App Store. Researchers got almost 8,000 people to install an app and while they have created a “malicious version of the app capable of harvesting data, posting fake updates on social [...]
If you’re a movie buff, this is going to be a big weekend for you. The 82nd Annual Academy Awards take place on Sunday with hosts Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. Seeing those two together may be enough of a reason to watch the awards.
Banning free apps from the iPad App Store
I read an interesting article this morning from technology writer Joe Wilcox. He believes Apple should not allow any free apps into the iPad App Store, instead only allowing premium paid apps. Wilcox argues this would help distinguish the iPad from the iPhone and iPod touch. Apple could pitch the iPad as the better App [...]
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