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OpenFeint Plans Cross Platform Support, Introduces Gaming Invites

The gaming social network has reached version 2.6 and with it comes one major new feature and news of a second, intriguing one, as it tries to gain more users ahead of Apple’s Game Center release.  With 35 million registered users, Open Feint is hardly likely to disappear overnight though. With version 2.6 recently released, players [...]

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id’s Rage Demoed on iPhone 4

QuakeCon may be known as a massive LAN party for players of Quake and other similar games to attend, but it’s also where id Software get the chance to have a chat with the players, demo their games and hopefully, announce some juicy new ones at the same time. We’re currently right in the middle of [...]

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iPhone to Wear Google Goggles Soon

Google Goggles will be familiar more to Android phone users than to iPhone users, but this situation is set to change in the, hopefully near, future.  Google Goggles is an image recognition application that performs a search based on items you’ve taken a picture of with your phone.  It’s not as basic as a barcode [...]

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Square Enix’s Chaos Rings Gets Spectacular Trailer

Square Enix are best known as the team behind the massively popular Final Fantasy franchise of games, so fantasy RPG fans should be getting excited about the prospect of Chaos Rings, their exclusive iPhone game expected to be released very soon. According to producer Takehiro Ando, who spoke to Pocket Gamer, Chaos Rings is ‘almost fully [...]

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Recent available updates: iTunes 9.0.3, iPhone OS 3.1.3

Apple has recently released two minor updates that will affect iTunes, iPhone and iPod touch users. First up was the release of iTunes, which is now at version 9.0.3. According to the change log; iTunes no longer ignores your “Remember password for purchases” setting. Addresses problems with syncing some Smart Playlists and Podcasts with iPod. Resolves a problem [...]

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iPhone 3GS Wins Out in Browser Speed Battle vs. Droid and Eris

No, I’m not gloating, but it’s worth pointing out that despite the Droid’s hardware superiority over the iPhone 3GS in certain respects, the trusty iPhone still loads web pages faster according to this Android Central shootout. And after all, when we’re throwing down with our smartphone brethren, isn’t that what really matters? Well, not really, [...]

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Popular Google App to Come to the iPhone?

While the industry is getting hyped up over a Google versus Apple war with the forthcoming release of Verizon’s Droid phone (which runs Google’s Android operating platform) but that isn’t stopping the two rivals from potentially teaming up on the app front. Google just revealed a free online navigation service that will be integrated into its [...]

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Mozilla Confirms Mystery iPhone App

The Apple iPhone has been earning quite a rep for attracting the interest of some of the biggest software companies on the globe and it looks like another powerhouse player is about to come on board. Mozilla, a company well known for its Firefox browser, confirms that their first iPhone app is on its way. Unfortunately, little [...]

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An update from Apple and a warning from the Dev Team

Just as you would expect following an update from Apple, the Dev-Team has stepped in to remind us (those who jailbreak and unlock) not to update to version 3.1.2. Of course, anyone who has been jailbreaking for any amount of time most likely already knew that, so this is almost like stating the obvious, but [...]

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Recent available updates: iPhone 3.1.2, iPod touch 3.1.2, AT&T Carrier File 5.6

Both Apple and AT&T have recently released updates for the iPhone and iPod touch. Well more specifically, Apple has released version 3.1.2 for the iPhone and iPod touch and AT&T has released Carrier File 5.6 for the iPhone. In regards to the iPhone update, according to the change log this update; Resolves sporadic issues that may cause [...]

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