Software developer Rockstar Games announced that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will arrive for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch handsets later this fall.
[iPhone Alley] According to Touch Arcade, the game, which is presently available for the Nintendo DS, follows the story of Huang Lee, a young Triad who travels to Liberty City after the mysterious [...]

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[The iPhone Blog] Facebook 3.0.1 for iPhone [Free - iTunes link], which fixes some of the bugs found in Facebook 3.0 (others are reportedly being fixed on the Facebook backend servers), is now being served piping hot and ready from the iTunes App Store.

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According to a patent filing, Apple is working on speech-to-text technology for its iPhone and iPod product lines. Speech recognition could be the holy grail for data entry and retrieval on mobile devices, especially as they continue to shrink in size.
[InformationWeek] The Baltimore Sun found the patent and has included a diagram of how the [...]

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That little sketch above, from the Dropbox Blog post on this, is exactly how I felt when I spotted this news. Dropbox’s iPhone app has been submitted to the App Store – last week – and is just awaiting approval.[JAiPB] I’ve used a number of online backup / file sync apps on the desktop, [...]

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While many of the early successful iPhone and iPod touch games came from small-time developers, big-name content creators like Electronic Arts, id Software and Konami are flocking to the platform, using their brands and marketing muscle to compete.
The App Store has about 13,000 games in 19 separate categories, ranging from old-fashioned board games to complex [...]

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Developers will notice that applications that are rated 17+, and are submitted to the App Store do not come with up-to-50 promo codes that you would receive otherwise.
As it stands, neither the 3.0 software nor iTunes display parental warnings when using a promo code to purchase apps with a mature (17+) rating, so Apple has [...]

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Apple has earlier today announced that customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications in just one year from the Apple App Store. Aside from such, there are more than 65,000 apps available on the App Store, and there are officially over 100,000 developers in the iPhone Developer Program working on releasing these thousands of [...]

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Word has it that Apple has brought App Store rejection notices to a whole new low. It has been shown that Apple has stopped informing developers what the problem with their application is, if rejected.
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As if there weren’t already enough problems with Apple’s App Store review process already, it is now being said [...]

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A featured demo at the WWDC on Monday that stuck out to many, was the TomTom for iPhone presentation. This is a forthcoming turn-by-turn GPS navigation for your vehicle.
TomTom has mentioned that they would be bringing this to us in the past, but things have gone south since then. Now, they’re back in action, and [...]

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Want to be a beta tester?  Sure you do.  Who wouldn’t?  Beta testers get free stuff, and they get it long before anyone else does.  All they need to do is offer bug reports if they find any problems, and suggestions as to how it could be improved or changed visually and operationally.
Well, you lot [...]

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App Generator from AppLoop makes it easy to convert your site to a mobile app in less than two minutes.
AppLoop is a new service that allows anyone with a web browser and RSS feed to create an application, and submit it to the App Store, without having to write a single line of code. The [...]

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