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WSJ: Apple has pre-sold “hundreds of thousands” of iPads
According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple has pre-sold “hundreds of thousands” of iPads, just days after opening up pre-orders to the public. To put this into perspective, Apple sold its first million iPhones just 74 days after release. If the iPhone’s success is any indication of the iPad’s success, Apple may very well... »
Vlingo App Review
Vlingo is an app for everybody who finds the virtual keyboard on their iPhone a little bit too fiddly. Not only that, but it’s suited to anyone who loves the voice search found in Google’s own app, or just someone who dreamed of a little more functionality than the stock voice control feature offers... »
Apple to ban protective screen film in retail stores?
According to both iLounge and Macworld, Apple has decided to ban the sale of protective screen film from all of its retail stores. Why? Nobody really seems to know, and Apple isn’t saying a word. Not yet at least. The ban, which has been confirmed by multiple companies, would go into effect sometime in... »
Alone Review
Has the isometric platform game genre been fully exploited since the days of 8-bit gaming? Will examples such as Knight Lore, Batman and Head Over Heals remain the best because they are essentially unchallenged? Like the platform genre itself, the isometric platformer has simply evolved rather than disappeared, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t... »
Bing Becomes US-Only iPhone App
The Bing iphone application has been removed from all international iTunes App Stores bar the USA. But instead of being the work of Apple, this is the work of Microsoft themselves. Released in December last year, Bing apparently began disappearing on Monday this week, so why have Microsoft waited this long before taking it... »
According to survey, 40% of Blackberry owners want to switch to an iPhone
Crowd Science, a Silicon Valley-based research firm, just released the results of a recent survey it conducted, and found that nearly 40% of all Blackberry users would rather have an iPhone. “Nearly 40% of Blackberry users continue to prefer Apple’s iPhone as their next smartphone purchase, but a third of them would also switch... »
Documentary Filmmaker Finds Home on iPhone
Like the Paeds ED medical app we covered a while back, this is another case of someone using the App Store for something a little out of the ordinary, but with a considerable amount of potential for the future. Finnish filmmaker Kimmo Kuusniemi made a documentary entitled ‘Promised Land of Heavy Metal’, a film... »
Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz App Review
We’ll start off by saying that we will be referring to this game as abcdefg… throughout this review, as to type the entire alphabet everytime we mention the app will not only be annoying to read, but will give the impression there are a wealth of odd formatting errors! Jorg Piringer lives in Vienna,... »
PayPal app gets updated, now includes ability to Bump money
The PayPal app for the iPhone has just received what seems to be a nice overall update. To begin with, the app is now at version 2.0 and with that comes new features as well as a new look. And as a current (and frequent) PayPal app user I can say that the new... »
SimplifyMedia app being removed from the App Store — by developer
SimplifyMedia have recently announced that they will be pulling their apps from the App Store. And while they may have good plans for the future they do not seem ready to share any at this time. According to the post over on the SimplifyMedia blog; “We are unable to share our future plans at... »