“People don’t read anymore,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs said when he was predicting the failure of the Kindle back in 2008. According to a new statistic, books have passed games as the largest category of apps for the iPhone in …
News that Netflix will bring its streaming video service to the iPhone has been floating around the web since last year. But today we have a new sign that iPhone support could be on its way: Hacking Netflix is reporting …
Following on the heels of its legal battle with Nokia, today Apple announced that it has filed a lawsuit against HTC for “infringing on 20 Apple patents related to the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture and hardware.”
The move is …
Patently Apple has the word on a patent filed by Apple yesterday that has the potential to change the way users interact with the iPhone. The patent shows off a new method for finger gestures on the iPhone that utilizes …
Blogger Jon Atherton at iPhone app developer Chillifresh has become the de facto spokesman for those who think Apple’s new anti-smut rules for iPhone apps are too puritanical. Chillifresh’s arguably sexist — or maybe just kind of dumb — Wobble …
With little fanfare, Apple has doubled the 10MB 3G download cap for iPhones to 20MB. Apple hasn’t offered any official reasoning regarding the change, but it’s likely that it is in preparation for the launch of the iPad.
The 10MB …
Opera Software has never been one to shy away from publicity. And now that the company has to somehow convince Apple to approve its new Opera Mini iPhone application, we’ll likely see many more stunts like this one: Opera hired …
This is either a bold stand for developer rights, or a bald-faced publicity stunt by Opera Software. The Norwegian browser developer has announced that they will be showing off an iPhone version of their popular Opera Mini mobile web browser …
When Apple introduced the iPad last week, it sought to reassure application developers that nearly all of the 140,000 apps created so far for the iPhone will run fine on the iPad unchanged. But developer Marine Leroux asks, “Why would …
While the Apple iPad is dominating tech news left and right, there was another bit of news from the company yesterday that should be noted: Apple has removed restrictions that previously prevented VoIP iPhone applications from working over 3G. This …
It looks like a lot of us enjoy torturing island natives during our spare time. Bolt Creative said today that its Pocket God game has sold more than two million copies on the iPhone.
The company contends that it is …
This will probably be one of the more compelling augmented reality gaming experiences around this year.
A French company Parrot is demoing a remotely-controlled helicopter in Las Vegas during CES this week that flies depending on how you tilt your …
[Correction: This post originally and incorrectly implied that AT&T does not have MMS support for other phones already.]
AT&T has officially declared that MMS (multimedia messaging) service for the iPhone will begin on the 25th of this month. iPhone owners …
Rhapsody is the latest music application hoping to get approved for the iPhone, offering a way to select any song to play from a catalog of more than 8 million tracks.
If it does get approved, it will be the …
It was only a matter of time, I suppose. Google, to no one’s real surprise, has tied its AdSense cash machine to the mobile applications market.
As downloadable applications proliferate for Apple’s iPhone and the Android platform, the web-behemoth is …
A mid-sized bank, USAA, has become the first bank to let you snap a picture of a check with your iPhone and automatically deposit it once you hit the send button (demo in video below).
This is the sort of …
British iPhone application developer Acrossair is launching an augmented reality transit-finding app for San Francisco as soon as Apple releases a newer version of its iPhone OS in early September. Augmented reality is a nascent field that lets you superimpose …
Spotify, the Swedish streaming music startup which has racked up more than 6 million users in Europe, has released a first glimpse at its much-awaited iPhone application. Spotify’s mobile efforts have been talked about as a potential iTunes killer, or …
Commence geostalking on the iPhone.
Google added Latitude to Apple’s smartphone today, but it’s on the web instead of in the app store. Latitude, which came out in February, is a social layer over maps that shows your location in …
Finding an appropriate and convenient place to meet a business partner, friend or stranger can get pretty time-consuming. Ann Arbor-based iPhone application publisher Basara is trying to solve that problem with Meetme. It’s a fairly simple solution: the app combines …
