As fun as EA Mobile’s Tiger Woods golf titles are, I personally am a fan of arcade style golf games over realistic ones. That’s why I’ve always enjoyed games like Hot Shots Golf and Mario Golf on the consoles, but Gameloft’s Let’s Golf has been giving the same great experience on the iPhone & Android…
Barnes & Noble Brings its Nook App to Android
If you’ve settled for Kindle on Android because there haven’t been too many other decent options for you, you’re in luck. Barnes & Noble is bringing its Nook app to Android, and while I’m not the biggest fan of reading eBooks on smartphones, screens like the ones on the HTC EVO 4G or Motorola Droid…
Leaked: BlackBerry Desktop Manager 5.0.1.40
Today must be BlackBerry Leak Day. Already I’ve come across 3 leaked OS’s, and now, I read that a new version of the BlackBerry Desktop Manager has been leaked as well. Goodness. While the leak brings us up to version 5.0.1.40 of BlackBerry Desktop Manager, nothing really appears to be new and notable. It’s suspected…
Stanford University and Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto unveil FCam camera API
Stanford University and Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto have released an open-source digital photography platform called FCam (short for “Frankencamera”) for the Nokia N900. Developed as a part of Stanford’s Camera 2.0 project, it allows developers to create new capabilities for digital cameras to “overcome some of the shortcomings of their devices or create…
Bicycle thief steals iPhone from woman who was demoing real time GPS tracking software [Hilarity]
Horatio Toure. 31 years old. San Franciscan. Idiot. The story goes like this: Horatio was on his bike one Monday afternoon, riding in the South of Market neighborhood, when he sees a woman, Jordan Sturm, using an iPhone. Shouldn’t be too much of a surprise in that part of the world; it’s hipster central. So…
Jackpot Slots turns your iPhone into one-armed bandit
A company called New Potato Technologies has created the iPhone dock pictured above. They call the product an “appcessory,” as it’s coupled with an app that detects Jackpot Slots iPhone Dock and runs the famous one-armed bandit on the device (iPhone or iPod Touch). The app itself rocks realistic graphics and sounds, allowing users to…
Verizon’s V CAST Apps now available on select BlackBerry models
Verizon Wireless announced that its mobile app store, V CAST Apps, is now available on select BlackBerry smartphones, including the BlackBerry Bold 9650, Storm2 9550, Curve 8530 and Tour 9630. Moreover, during the next couple of weeks, the service will be rolled out to more RIM-made devices like the Storm 9530 and Curve 8330. As…
Mangako’s Impact City is touted as the first “optimized for iPhone” digital comic
New digital comic publisher Mangako is launching its first comic exclusively for iPhone and iPod Touch – Impact City. Since it’s made for the two iDevices only, there’s no need to scroll around to read the comic. Each scene is made to perfectly fit the iPhone’s 3.5-inch screen, removing all zoomimg and scrolling actions that…
Juniper Research: Mobile app store downloads to reach 25 billion by 2015
As we have a growing number of app stores, Juniper Research is forecasting that the annual number of consumer-oriented handset downloads will rise from less than 2.6 billion in 2009 to more than 25 billion in 2015. The research company argues that players across the mobile value chain are seeking to emulate Apple’s AppStore success.…
Please stop encouraging tricky apps like Handy Light
By now, you should be aware that Apple pulled the Handy Light app this morning because the flashlight app could be secretly turned into a tethering program with a secret code. I would like all the people encouraging other developers to include secret functionality in apps to kindly shut up. Tricking the gatekeepers leads us…