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DigiDrummer App Review: Finger Tapping Fun

Cody Buchanan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:12 +0000

Are you one of those people that taps your pen or fingers on your desk at work or school? Do you constantly drive your classmates or coworkers crazy with your incessant tapping? Well how about putting those fingers to good use? The DigiDrummer app can turn your fingers into musical instruments and your habit into [...]

Apple Now World’s Most Profitable Handset Maker, Surpasses Nokia

Devindra Hardawar — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:37:33 +0000

GigaOM points out that a recent analyst report has named Apple as the world’s most profitable handset vendor for the third quarter of this year. The report by Strategy Analytics is currently only available to subscribers, but GigaOM has shared the relevant bits from analyst Alex Spektor: We estimate Apple’s operating profit for its iPhone handset [...]

How Verizon May Be Fudging the Facts on AT&T’s Wireless Network

Devindra Hardawar — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:25:01 +0000

AppleInsider has a great piece that’s worth reading if you’re wondering how factual Verizon is being with their recent criticisms of AT&T’s 3G network. They point out that Verizon conveniently doesn’t mention that their network is on the whole slower than AT&T’s 3G, and that Verizon also left out AT&T’s Edge data coverage even though [...]

Bejeweled Blitz, the Facebook app coming to the iPhone

Robert Nelson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:03:12 +0000

This news should be nice for any current Bejeweled 2 users that have also been touched by the Facebook app called Bejeweled Blitz. It seems that PopCap Games is going to be adding Bejeweled Blitz to the current Bejeweled 2 app, and as a bonus it will come as a free update. The iPhone version of [...]

Got Root? If Not, Here is How to Secure Your iPhone

Andy Boxall — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:02:59 +0000

The Ikee iPhone worm has been hitting the headlines this week and although there doesn’t seem anything malicious about this particular one – although many would say Rick Astley wallpaper is inhuman enough - the code has been made public, so it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that we’ll be seeing some far more [...]

Commodore 64 emulator C64 makes it way back into the App Store

Robert Nelson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:47:22 +0000

The Commodore 64 emulator had been approved and added to the App Store back in the beginning of September. Of course, that app was also quickly removed due to a little back door trick that left a BASIC interpreter open for users. Which if you remember back, that BASIC interpreter was one of the original [...]

Real-time traffic updates now available in Navigon’s MobileNavigator app

Robert Nelson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:31:40 +0000

Back in mid-September we saw the announcement from Navigon that real-time traffic updates would be coming soon. Well it seems like “soon” has arrived and those promised traffic updates are now available for purchase. #NAVIGON Traffic Live U.S. for #IPhone navigation app now available as in-app purchase within new update The traffic updates will come by way [...]

Pollution App Review: Pollution of the Planet

Cody Buchanan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:10:51 +0000

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m the closet it gets to a modern day hippy. I drive a hybrid car, recycle everything I can, protest against anything harmful to the environment, and I know a heck of a lot about it. And I happen to know that one of the biggest problems facing [...]

HD Radio iPhone App is Doomed to Fail From the Start

Devindra Hardawar — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:08:28 +0000

HD Radio is a technology that had a lot of promise initially, especially since it offered CD-quality sound to replace FM transmissions and FM-quality sound to replace AM, but as the years go on its widespread adoption seems to be weighted down by a combination of consumer confusion and apathy. The upcoming HD Radio app [...]

Snowdome App Review: Get in the Spirit

Cody Buchanan — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:27:35 +0000

It’s almost that time of year again. The time of year when stars seem to shine a little brighter, people seem to be a little cheerier, and there’s an unexplainable feeling in the air. The winter holidays bring about one of the most beloved times of year. And people think of all types of ways [...]