Universal Music Group (UMG) wants to directly monetize on its content in the mobile gaming space. Hence, the company has unveiled Six-String iPhone game, which pretty much works like Tap Tap Revenge, delivering “a dynamic guitar experience.” You can play in 2 different modes – Practice Mode or Studio Mode. The former lets you get…
Electric Pocket’s BugMe! Brings Sticky Notes to the iPhone – Even on the Home Screen
Electric Pocket have kindly told us they are introducing BugMe!, the popular note-taker and reminder application, to iPhone users. For well over a decade, PDA and smartphone users have been using the App to create notes and set reminder alarms to keep them on-task and on-time. “BugMe! for iPhone brings the classic app to a…
Yowza!! now in version 2.2; Adds support for Austin, Texas
y Yowza!! — the free location-based mobile coupon application/service that comes from actor Greg Grunberg whom you may know as Heroes’ mind reader Matt Parkman — is adding Austin, Texas to the list of supported cities. Among the local businesses included in the update are the most popular places to eat and drink such as…
Bet you can’t type this fast on your iPhone
Think you can type fast on your desktop or laptop computer’s keyboard? Well, chances are pretty good that the iPhone user in the video below can tap-type significantly faster with his two thumbs than you can with eight fingers helping your two thumbs. According to an iPhone typing speed test, YouTube user “konceptzoflife” can hit…
Dark Horse Comics Releasing Something Horrible on the iPhone, Dr. Horrible That Is
Internet musical sensation Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog first came to the scene in the Summer of 2008. The 42 minute long “blog” starred Neil Patrick Harris and Felicia Day and for the most part was a huge success. But in order to understand the complexity of Dr. Horrible, we’d have to go back to his origins, and that’s…
China Mobile asks Apple to make iPhone variant for its home-grown 3G network
China Mobile has yet to bring the Apple iPhone under its wing, but that doesn’t mean it’s not trying. Following years of butting heads with Apple over revenue-sharing negotiations, China Mobile is apparently crawling back to Steve Jobs in hopes that the iPhone Godfather will give the wireless network an iPhone variant that’s compatible with…
Brief: Bharti Airtel finally getting the iPhone 3GS; no date or price given
Bharti Airtel, India’s largest operator with over 124 million customers, has announced that they’re going to carry the iPhone 3GS. They’ve been selling the iPhone 3G since August 2008, and the iPhone 3GS was released internationally during the summer of 2009, so people there are probably a bit anxious. Will they get the new iPhone,…
Garfield returns to the iPhone in Pooky Quest
There’s a new Garfield game available in the AppStore called Pooky Quest. It’s a platformer a la Doodle Jump that sees you jumping up, up and away to save a teddy bear named Pooky. Along the way, you’ll pick various power ups such as sweets and of course lasagna. The game links into the new…
New Apple patent hints at iGroups location-based social network
Location-based social networks are all the rage these days. Any mobile app worth its salt has some sort of tie-in with geo-location data. Apple may soon be jumping into the social networking waters themselves. A new patent application hints at Apple’s plans for a new type of location aware social network that gives groups of…
New Square-Enix RPG, Chaos Rings, Releasing on the iPhone This Year [Update]
It’s been nearly a month since Square-Enix released Final Fantasy I & Final Fantasy II on the iPhone, but it seems like they’re already planning on releasing another RPG on the platform some time this year. According to a job posting on Japanese developer Media.Vision’s website, the game is called Chaos Rings and will be a 3D title whose story…