F1 fans, get ready to put the pedal (or eerrrm… finger) down and race with the BMW Sauber F1 team… on your iPhone! Artificial Life together with the BMW AG are teaming up to produce a BMW Sauber F1 Team racing game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Can’t wait to get my hands on…
Amazon Launches Free Kindle App for iPhone
Amazon sure wasn’t kidding about spreading out to other mobile platforms at the Kindle 2 launch; you can now grab their application for free from the iTunes store and start shopping for books right from your iPhone. Even if you already have a Kindle, the WhisperSync feature will save your spot across multiple devices, which…
Have you noticed better MobileMe performance?
At this point, it’s already old news that Apple has updated their MobileMe service with faster web-apps, more reliable “push” data functionality, and faster cloud-syncing. But, just how much of a difference did Apple’s MobileMe update make? From our vantage point, MobileMe has been working well enough for the past couple months that the new…
Watchmen MMO game coming to iPhone
Watchmen is, without a doubt, one of the most anticipated movie releases of 2009. Legions of fans have been waiting to put eyes on the graphic novel-turned-movie since last year, and the hype is building to a frenzy. So, it’s befitting that the much-hyped Watchmen movie is getting a little positive PR from the likewise-hyped…
Godiva gets an iPhone app; iChocolate lovers rejoice!
Like any other company that appreciates its brand, Godiva Chocolatier is joining the “iPhone wave” with a dedicated application. Developed in partnership with Digby, Godiva Mobile for iPhone allows users to install a Godiva Mobile storefront on their iPhone or iPod Touch. But it’s not just the ordinary web shop you’ll get with Godiva’s iPhone…
Taito brings Space Invaders, Cooking Mama to the iPhone, iPod Touch
Taito announced two games for the iPhone – the pioneering shooting game SPACE INVADERS and the cooking action game COOKING MAMA. If you don’t know what Space Invaders is all about, what can I say – you’ve been living under a rock. A dedicated Wikipedia page will tell you more about it. I’ll just add…
Notes Pro iPhone app partially syncs notes with Google Docs
Notes Pro is a neat notes app for the iPhone that lets you take notes, search and partially sync them with Google Docs. The “partially” part is problematic, as far as I’m concerned. It can only upload notes to your Google Docs, but can’t read existing documents. If it provided two-way syncing as well as…
Mac OS 7 running on an iPhone!
Just how powerful are our mobile phones these days? Powerful enough to run a desktop-class operating system from just a dozen, or so, years ago. This time around, the iPhone is being used as a surrogate computer for the Apple computer OS known to harder-core Mac enthusiasts as Mac OS 7, or System 7. A…
Gates to Kids: No iPhone for You
This isn’t much of a surprise, but Bill Gates doesn’t let the kiddies use an iPod on iPhone in the house, according to an interview with wife Melinda Gates. Heck, if you were Bill Gates, would you? That would be some seriously bad press if anyone found out – you can just see the headline:…
Dashboard widgets coming to a jailbroken iPhone near you
Adding a Dashboard-like widgets to your iPhone is a neat idea, or is it? The way I see it, iPhone’s UI is pretty much widgetized by design and adding an extra “widget-like look and feel” may make the device less intuitive to use — after all, every app is already few clicks and/or swipes away.…