Highlights for Children is launching its first iPhone app – the original Highlights Hidden Pictures game, which (as you can presume) targets iPhone and/or iPod Touch-ownin’ parents. The seek-and-find game is designed to challenge child’s visual skills to allow him/her to locate hidden objects within Highlights’ classic kid-friendly illustrations. There are over a hundred hidden…
Bell HSPA Network Goes Live, Featuring BlackBerry Bold 9700, iPhone 3GS, OMNIA II, and Video Calling
Bell has today gone ahead and flipped the switch on their brand new HSPA network. Coupled with telus launching their own tomorrow, Rogers will no longer have a lockdown on hot GSM handsets like the iPhone, and Canadians will get some much-needed choice in service providers. The only devices Bell was forthcoming about before today’s announcement…
Video: The Spirit of Berlin, an iPhone controlled minivan
A few students at the Freie Universität Berlin got together and modified a Dodge minivan (also called people carrier in the UK) into a remote control car, with the controller being an iPhone. It’s pretty freaking wild.
Apple App Store Crosses 100,000 App Threshold
Apple has just announced a milestone of sorts. 100,000 apps are now available in the App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch. 15,000 of which are fart apps (kidding). “The App Store, now with over 100,000 applications available, is clearly a major differentiator for millions of iPhone and iPod touch customers around the world,”…
Shameless self-promotion: 4 free quote apps I helped make hit the AppStore
Disclaimer: I was personally involved in the development of these apps! Don’t know about you, but I like reading quotes from time to time. Not like reading dozens of them, but few per day just to keep me entertained and eventually to learn something new. Hence, I was working with a friend on 4 free…
Google extends the reach of its Analytics product to mobile apps
Google has recently updated its Analytics product to help developers see how people are using specific parts of their iPhone and Android applications. As with websites, you can track pageviews and events. Since there are no HTML pages involved in mobile apps, developers should determine when their apps should trigger pageview requests. Google Analytics then…
Point and click adventure Dracula: the Path of the Dragon hitting AppStore soon
A new point and click adventure will be hitting the AppStore later this fall. It’s called Dracula: the Path of the Dragon and it promises to deliver tons of fun, mixing myth and reality, science and history, and medicine and superstition. The storyline sees you controlling Father Arno Moriani, who is sent to investigate a…
Unlock your factory fresh iPhone 3GS with ‘blacksn0w’ (OS 3.1.2 and baseband 05.11 friendly)!
If you accidentally updated your iPhone 3G/3GS to the latest iPhone OS 3.1/3.1.2, then you’re also stuck with baseband version 05.11. If you recently bought a factory fresh iPhone 3GS with OS 3.1 or 3.1.2 already loaded, then you’re in the same boat. That used to be a bad thing, because baseband 05.11 couldn’t be…
China Unicom: Only 5K new iPhone users since launch
China is the world’s largest mobile phone market. Even with crappy sales of iPhones, you’d think the sheer size of the Chinese market was enough to move some serious iPhone volume. And, you’d be wrong. The iPhone went live on China Unicom’s network last week, but has reportedly only sold a disappointing 5,000 iPhones to…
Want Verizon Wireless 3G coverage ads? AT&T’s got a lawsuit for that!
If you’ve glanced at your TV recently, chances are good you’ve seen those Verizon Wireless ads mocking AT&T for having an allegedly spotty 3G network. The TV commercials play off those “there’s an app for that” iPhone ads, declaring that “there’s a Verizon Wireless 3G coverage map” to show you just why Verizon’s 3G network…