Apptizr, the service that provides iPhone users with personalized app recommendations and which we covered in the past, announced that it has crossed the 10 million apps recommended mark. That’s a big new for the company/service, which started working only four months ago and was instantly called the “Pandora for iPhone apps.” As part of…
Make your own topdown adventure game for iPhone with Somni Game Maker
Somni Game Maker is an interesting iPhone app that allows anyone to make its own iPhone game. Don’t think you will be able to make just about anything — you are limited to topdown room-based levels. There are predefined rooms (up to 64 on an 8×8 grid), 200 icons, background music, and the ability to…
Tesco Mobile exceeds two million users
Mobile New is reporting that Tesco Mobile now has over 2m users, after reporting a 14% increase in the last year! For those of you that don’t know Tesco, they are an all-pervasive Supermarket chain in the UK that basically does anything you could want to buy – including Mobiles! Not so very long ago they…
Save the mermaids in Atlantis – legend of the Mermaids iPhone game
A company called Hiray Information Technology is out with an iPhone game called Atlantis – legend of the Mermaids. Don’t get too excited when you read “Mermaids” — it’s not an Android title, after all. 😉 The game sees you going through underwater ruins of Atlantis, while you try to rescue kidnapped mermaids and defeat…
The mobile roundup – An iPhone walks into a bar edition
So, you may have heard that there was that next-generation iPhone leak this week but there was also some really cool stuff from Dell (of all companies!), Research In Motion, and HTC. Hop over past the jump for a thorough breakdown of this week in mobile technology.
Oprah Mobile Available on iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and webOS
Her Royal Oprah has launched mobile apps for BlackBerry, iPhone, Android and webOS, spreading her nubian dominion further into the realm of mobility. Because the twitter thing just wasn’t enough. The app allows the viewing of clips and previews of upcoming episodes of The Oprah Winfrey Show, checking showtimes anywhere in the US, weekly polls,…
Police investigating iPhone 4G leak
Remember how that fourth-generation iPhone leaked earlier this week? Well, it looks like the police are going to get involved to see if there were any laws broken. This is the supposed story: An Apple baseband engineer was testing a prototype next-gen iPhone out in the wild and then he had some delicious German beer…
Knocking Live streams live video to over 1 million iPhones and Android
When you think “live streaming video,” you’re probably going to have either Qik or Flixwagon immediately popping into your head. But, a newcomer streaming video app takes a new approach to video streaming from smartphones, and it’s already 1 million users strong! The app, Knocking Live Video, has, in just 121 days, managed to capture…
Gameloft Podcast #5 Gives Us The Goods on Iron Man 2; Announces Prince of Persia for iPhone
Gameloft has released episode #5 of their podcast and it’s chock full of gaming goodies. In this episode of the Gameloft podcast, Gameloft’s Josh and Naomi highlight some of Gameloft’s popular iPhone titles that are now available for the iPad such as Shrek Kart and James Cameron’s Avatar, as well as showing off some new…
Google not bringing Maps Navigator to iPhone, yet
There was a lot of excitement yesterday when Google brought Maps Navigation to the UK and Ireland because reports surfaced that the search giant would be bringing it to the iPhone. Immediately, you had to think TomTom and its expensive services would be destroyed because Google’s offering provides pretty good turn-by-turn audible navigation for free.…