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Apple’s “1 Billion App Countdown” contest launched

Earlier today, Apple launched perhaps one of its largest promotions yet, promising one lucky application downloader today “a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule, and a MacBook Pro.” “As of today, nearly one billion apps have been downloaded around the globe. So we just want to say thanks — a billion. Download [...]

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Apple opens up Push Notification Service for Developers

Apple has sent out what comes as a welcomed email for many developers announcing that the Push Notification service is now available to begin using and testing. Unfortunately, most users will still have to wait a while before we can begin to take advantage of the Push Notification services, however it is nice to see [...]

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Documents to Go for the iPhone; coming “early to mid May”

It still looks like we are going to see a battle as to who will have the first full office suite in the App Store. Just recently we saw the news that Quickoffice was planning for a Q2 release, and previously we saw that Documents To Go was also on track for a Q2 release. Unfortunately, [...]

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iPhone Dev Team releases redsn0w beta for iPod touch 2G jailbreaking

The iPhone Dev Team has recently released a beta version of redsn0w, which will hopefully “simplify the jailbreaking of your iPod touch 2G.” Unfortunately, and the reason why it is still being listed as beta is because it requires the user to run it from the command line. Of course, as with any jailbreaking, use [...]

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Tweetie, the iPhone Twitter app is being developed for the Mac

This story seems to be reverse of what we would typically expect, instead of hearing about a desktop app being developed for the iPhone, we are seeing an iPhone app being developed for the desktop. The app is the highly praised (as well as my personal favorite) Twitter client called Tweetie. In a recent posting over [...]

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Apple rumored to have ordered 100 million 8GB NAND flash chips

Just yesterday we saw some reports that suggested that some of the parts for the next-gen iPhone parts have begun to ship and today that is being followed up by a report of Apple having placed an order for a very large amount of flash based storage. So far, the story which comes courtesy of DigiTimes [...]

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iPhonefreak’s April Poll: iTunes Pricing

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iTunes variable pricing implemented, “music is now 100% iTunes plus”

We’ve been hearing about “variable pricing” for a while now (since MacWorld in San Francisco,) and Apple has finally gone through with it. As of yesterday, April 7, 2009, the most popular songs on iTunes are now $1.29, as opposed to the $0.99 that we’ve all grown so accustomed to over the past few years. Less [...]

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Elan Microelectronics suing Apple over multi-touch patents

Taiwanese company Elan Microelectronics has recently brought suit against Apple in regards to touchscreen patents. The company has filed the suit in the US District Court in San Francisco and is claiming that Apple has violated two of their touchscreen patents. These patents are not limited to just the iPhone and iPod touch, but also [...]

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iPhoneFreak Review: OtterBox Impact case for the iPhone 3G

Let me start out by saying that I am pretty picky when it comes to an iPhone case, I ALWAYS use one, but generally seem to have a hard time finding that “perfect” model. I will say that I have used hard shell cases from time to time, but I prefer to use one made [...]

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