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Super Monkey Ball producer interviewed: iPhone gaming ‘terrific’

by Chris Davies on April 16, 2008

While enterprise features such as Exchange support and VPN might make your company IT department tremble with excitement, the rest of us are slyly eyeing up the possibility of arcade-style gaming on the iPhone.  Back at the roadmap event, Apple announced it had been working with SEGA to bring Super Monkey Ball to the handset, using the iPhone's accelerometers to guide the simian around the track.  GameCyte caught up with Ethan Einhorn, ... continued »

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fring VoIP & IM app released for iPhone

by Chris Davies on April 15, 2008

VoIP company fring has announced what it's calling the world's first publicly available mobile VoIP app for the iPhone, putting the beta version out for download.  That means they've beaten rival Jajah - who recently announced their intention to release an iPhone VoIP client over the Summer - although Jajah are using the official SDK to develop their software whereas fring currently requires a Jailbroken or otherwise hacked "open" handset.  The ... continued »

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iPhone Xylo T2 Reflect Chrome case - bling bling!

by James Allan Brady on April 14, 2008

This case not only covers your entire iPhone in a scratch resistant hard shell, but it gives it that shiny chrome reflection you’ve always wanted. The upside is that it doesn’t mess with the way you interact with your iPhone’s screen due to the way it’s made. continued »

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Native blogging applications coming to the iPhone

by ashoperon on April 11, 2008

Blogging has become very popular in the last few years. People use it to break news, write about experiences, and about things that interest them. Also, the iPhone has become very popular. So what would you get if you could somehow bring blogging to the iPhone? Well, you would have yourself one popular application. continued »

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iPhone threatening open ethos of internet, warns Oxford academic

by Chris Davies on April 11, 2008

The iPhone's dominance as a mobile internet device continues to grow, with StatCounter stating that 0.23-percent of US web traffic is via the cellphone, and with it grows fears from some quarters that the relatively open development phase of the internet has passed on to a more closed, manufacturer-controlled experience.  According to Jonathan Zittrain, a professor at Oxford University, the proliferation of locked-down browsers on devices like the iPhone, Nintendo's ... continued »

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Analyst calls iPhone significant rival to RIM, Palm & ‘inept’ Windows Mobile

by Chris Davies on April 9, 2008

Many iPhone-addicts have been saying it for a long time already, but analyst Charlie Wolf from researchers Needham & Co. has issued a strongly-worded note to his clients suggesting that both RIM and Palm will continue to feel pressure from Apple's cellphone, particularly as the consumer smartphone market develops, with results visible in the place it hurts most: their bank balance.  In two separate pieces, Wolf described a maturing user ... continued »

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Apple AppStore icon trademarked

by Chris Davies on April 9, 2008

Soon to find its way to your iPhone homescreen, the AppStore logo is the subject of Apple's latest venture through the US Patent and Trademark Office, highlighting once again the Cupertino company's strong-handed control of each element that makes up the iPhone ecosystem.  The icon itself resembles OS X Leopard's Application folder, with the 'A' made up of a paintbrush, pencil and ruler, and will be included as part of the ... continued »

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