It’s nice to see more and more dev houses hop on to the iPhone/Touch platform from the Palm and PocketPC worlds. Having come from both worlds myself it makes me feel a little more like the iPhone is starting to get all the good companies I knew and loved from Ye Olden Tymes. [...]

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Got it bad for hardcore strategy games that will drain your battery and cause you to lose all track of time? Then you’ll love this press release:
Arlington, VA – Hendrickson Software Components (HSC) announced today that it has signed an agreement with Virtual Programming Ltd. (VP) to port their best selling game, Europa Universalis, [...]

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So, we don’t yet have any useful metrics to determine how well apps are doing in the App Store other than Apple’s general “Over 10,000,000 served” opening weekend figure, but one company is proud enough to crow about their roaring success:
Boston, MA – uLocate Communications, Inc. today announced its award-winning, location-based application, WHERE(TM), is among [...]

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Now here’s an interesting twist on the RSS reader: One that can prefetch pages so you can read them offline. This finally brings the realm of RSS reading to a practical level to iPod Touch users. Sure, it ain’t live, but if you’re heading off on a trip, or even your daily transit [...]

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Winnipeg, Canada – Stunt Software is pleased to announce the immediate release of 4 in a Row, a new game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The application is available today on Apple’s App store. This release brings the classic game to the iPhone that’s easy to understand, but difficult to master. Your goal is [...]

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In an effort to improve our recent track record in giving you all the news that’s fit to print, we will now be posting full press releases on the latest iPhone and iPod Touch news via prMac. We’ve been recieving PRs from them for some time now, but I have just now updated the [...]

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You remember last year? Remember when the iPhone first came out? The hype, the excitement, the lineups? Remember when Blendtec’s Tom Dickson showed off how well his Blendtec blender could make an iPhone smoothie? Good times, good times. Well, except for the iPhone smoothie part, which just made some people [...]

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I took the plunge. I upgraded my iPod Touch to 2.0. Easy? Absolutely! Does it kick Chuck Norris’ ass? Eh, not so much.
It isn’t that the firmware isn’t cool, because it is. The app store is excellent, the new features of the firmware are welcome, and overall it would [...]

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We all saw this coming. Apple has taken on so many new tasks that it has crashed. Think about it. Apple has just released its holy grail of a phone. It is pretty much sold out already, on its first day. Then you have the new firmware. This firmware is going to completely change how [...]

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Lest you think it’s going to be a bit of a wait before you can jailbreak your shiny new Firmware 2.0 device (be it a first-gen iPhone or iPod Touch with 2.0, or a glossy iPhone 3G), rest assured, the iPhone Dev Team are on the case, and they’ve got the video to prove it.
Their [...]

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Today’s iPhone launch across Canada was pretty intense, mirroring much of the same sort of thing seen in the US, but not everyone could get to the store, and not everyone is within a reasonable distance from their local Rogers outlet. It’s fortunate then that Rogers has decided to offer up the coveted [...]

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Holy hell on a taco. Did you think you’d live to see the day? The day that Rogers backs down on screwing their customers, even an inch? I certainly didn’t — and yet here we are, because Rogers have grudgingly given a wee bit of ground on their iPhone plans.
It seems that [...]

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This afternoon there was a piece on Global TV about new higher text messaging rates coming down the pipe from Rogers (and by extension Fido), Bell and Telus. Evidently, the new rates will charge $0.15 per text message — receiving or sending, if you don’t already have a text messaging plan.
But that’s not what [...]

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And so it starts. According to Lehman Brothers analyst Ben Reitzes, orders for the 8GB iPod Touch are starting to experience a “small but significant” delay of 1-2 business days to get it in stock, indicating that stocks of this particular model of Touch may be running low and Apple is not replenishing them.
This [...]

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