Late last summer, Rockstar announced it was bringing Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars to the iPhone / iPod Touch platform. Originally, Rockstar Games had planned to release the game in Fall 2009, but they quietly pushed back the release date. Today, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars can finally be downloaded through the App Store for…
UK Supermarket Tesco continues iPhone pricing offensive
Recession? What recession! Tesco, which is the leading UK Supermarket chain (with stores everywhere) is continuing it’s iPhone pricing offensive in to the New Year, with the news that it’s even easier to buy the Apple iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. How you might ask? Well, they’ve set up a toll-free (for all our US…
Ultrabrief: Apple files complaint against Nokia with the U.S. International Trade Commission
Nokia sues Apple, Apple countersues Nokia, Nokia files a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission, twice, and now Apple is responding today by filing their own complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission according to Bloomberg. Is it ever going to end? Probably, but by the time it happens I’ll have grandchildren who laugh…
Indie Relief – iPhone app developers donating revenue to Haiti efforts
Things are bad in Haiti, but help is coming from a group of independent iPhone developers who are banding together to donate app sales to help relief efforts. The devs will be giving revenue from their iPhone apps to charities that are working to help relief efforts on the ground in Haiti. It’s called the…
Apple mulling people-centric Contacts app in iPhone OS 4.0?
If you’re like us, you’ve been craving some next-generation iPhone news since CES 2010 wrapped last week. Well, today a new patent application from Apple gives us a little taste of a new feature in the next major iPhone OS update. The patent application hints at a new homescreen Contacts apps that would gives users…
Kodak Sues Apple, RIM for Image Preview Patent Infringement
A little over a year ago, Kodak opened up on LG, Samsung, and RIM (who promptly countersued) for infringing on image capture and compression technology. As a result, LG and Samsung joined Motorola, Nokia, and Sony Ericsson as licensors of Kodak tech, but it looks like RIM didn’t get nailed for anything. Lately, however, Kodak…
iPhone SteadyCam ‘Smoothee’ – Useless until iPhone supports HD video recording
The iPhone isn’t the best video recording platform out there, but that hasn’t stopped third-party accessory makers from making iPhone add-ons that help you make smooth video and stream it to the web. The latest iPhone video recording accessory is something that might not be all that useful until the iPhone supports high-resolution video recording,…
Apple C/Ds Valleywag’s Apple Tablet bounty, kind of confirms Tablet
Those of you still looking for proof of the Apple Tablet’s existence, Apple’s latest move to put and end to Valleywag.com’s Apple Tablet bounty might be the best evidence yet that Apple is indeed planning to launch a tablet device in the near term. If the rumored tablet‘s allegedly leaked glass face-plate, rumored specs, and…
More Apple Tablet rumors peg device as 10-inch ‘iPhone on steroids’
In the rundown after CES, we’re seeing a good bit of Apple-related hearsay crossing the wires. If it’s not some next-generation iPhone rumor, it’s some speculation about the rumored Apple Tablet – some are calling it the iSlate. The latest whispers from unconfirmed sources have the Apple tablet running the iPhone OS on a powerful…
Apple to launch next-generation iPhone 4G with dual-core processor in April?
CES 2010 has barely shuttered its doors for the year and we’re already seeing next-generation iPhone rumors coming to light. According to a report citing comments from South Korea’s KT execs, Apple’s upcoming iPhone successor could feature a removable battery, OLED display, video calling, and a new dual-core processor alongside upgraded graphics processing hardware. If…