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Ten iOS Games for Nintendo Fans, Part One

Although it was always a long shot, the news that Nintendo still has absolutely no plans to publish their games on any other platforms will have come as a disappointment to many.  But not to worry, as help is at hand for those who don’t mind substituting the real thing for a clone or two! Here [...]

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New iPhone Ads Concentrate on iOS Features, Not iPhone 4

Have you heard?  There’s a new iPhone coming sometime soon!  But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t buy an iPhone 4, as according to Apple they’re still really great provided you’ve got friends with iPhones or iPads, or an Apple TV.  At least, that’s the message sent by this pair of new TV spots for the [...]

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GetJar Becomes Apple’s Next ‘App Store’ Trademark Target

One battle may be almost over, but the war on naughty application stores using the app store phrase has only just begun for Apple, as they tell old hands GetJar to stop using the term to describe their own store, from which unsurprisingly, they sell apps. GetJar has been supplying mobile applications since 2005 and first [...]

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Top iPhone and iPad Apps Out This Week

Browsing the App Store this weekend?  If so, here are ten applications released recently. Songify. Turn your voice into a song with this clever, and sure to be very popular app!  Your device will need a microphone though.  The app’s free for a limited time only.  Free. Instacolor. A mash-up of Instagram with the mechanics of Color, where you’ll [...]

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Nintendo Continue to Shun iOS, Should They Consider Changing Their Ways?

Nintendo like doing things their own way, and unlike some of their competitors – Sega for example – they’ve never embraced other company’s platforms, steadfastly refusing to launch the likes of a Mario game on any other system.  It’s admirable in a way, as it would almost certainly make them a fortune. However, with the rise [...]

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App Store Reaches 15 Billion Downloads

It’s almost exactly a month ago that Steve Jobs took to the stage at WWDC and said the App Store had seen 14 billion downloads, a figure which has now been increased by a billion more; meaning the App Store has produced 15 billion downloads since opening its virtual doors three years ago. There are 425,000 [...]

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Apple’s Appstore Injunction Denied, While Amahi Get Creative Over Their Own Cease and Desist

Back in May, we summarized a few of the lawsuits either being instigated by Apple, or instigated against them for the use of the term App Store.  One of the latter was between Apple and Amazon, with the computer giant objecting to the online store naming their Android application store, the Amazon Appstore. Apple said it [...]

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Enjoy Jailbreakme 3.0 While You Can, Apple Fix Coming Soon

If you’re getting an overwhelming sense of deja vu, then don’t worry, you’ve not slipped down a time hole or anything, as we really have seen and heard all this before.  Yesterday, a new version of the online jailbreak tool Jailbreakme.com went live, offering iOS 4.3.3 users an easy way to break free from Apple’s [...]

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Facebook Didn’t Announce an iPad App, Suggest Other Developers Do it Better

When Facebook announced a special ‘awesome’ event last week, the rumors of an announcement of a dedicated iPad app immediately sprang up.  Would the social network fill that hole in their line-up?  Now the event has run we’ve got our answer, and it’s no. What they did announce was group chat, a new chat design and [...]

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Greedy Bankers Multiplayer Mode Caught on Video

A couple of weeks ago we published a few details on the iPad version of Greedy Bankers, one of our favorite iPhone puzzle games of recent months.  Rather than just do the same thing but on a larger scale, the iPad edition will be known as Greedy Bankers vs. the World and will feature a [...]

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