iPhone Books Now Outnumber Games

Here’s a fun fact for those who think reading is dead – the number of books available for the iPhone/iPod Touch has just exceeded the amount of games on the platform. According to Mobclix, we’re currently at 26,569 books compared with 25,079 games, which is incredible for a system that displays books in a tiny, hard [...more]

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Mar 07 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

Wi-Fi Stumblers Vanish From App Store

Apple’s really gotta knock this off. Once again, we all wake up to a story of Apple arbitrarily removing apps from their iTunes App Store – some which have been sold for years – for vauge and arbitrary reasons. Today’s victims? Wi-Fi stumbling programs like WiFiFoFum, WiFi-Where and yFy Network Finder, which are all designed to [...more]

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Mar 05 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

Final Fantasy: Now on the iPhone

And a great horde of moogles and chocobos rejoiced, as their franchise, straight and true, landed on that most chosen of platforms! Final Fantasy – specifically, Final Fantasy’s I and II – have arrived for the iPhone, greedily sucking apart whatever was left of your free time. The twin franchise leaders – the second of which [...more]

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Mar 03 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

5 Adult Apps Still In The iPhone App Store

I thought something like this might happen. Apple, which recently culled five thousand apps from the iPhone App Store due to “adult content” hasn’t touched the  following five apps, according to a report from PCWorld. The apps are: Adult Sex Life, an app which features sexual positions and a “little black book” of your sexual conquests iKamasutra, [...more]

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Feb 24 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

2 iPhone Apps To Help Battle Climate Change Deniers

FastCompany, a website I fall in love with more and more each day, has created a list of two iPhone apps to help you spread the news that the planet is dying. Fun! Their first recommendation is SkepticalScience, an app that provides you with common climate change denier talking points, and then gives  you the appropriate [...more]

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Feb 22 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

PMSBuddy Tracks Girlfriend’s Periods, You Jerk

TechCrunch just turned me on to an iPhone app that’s as unnecessary as it is hilarious. It’s called PMSBuddy, and is designed to tell you, a frightened male who’s uncomfortable with how the female body works, when he should hide in his room playing Fallout 3. As someone who’s actually dated girls, let me tell you [...more]

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Feb 22 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

60,000 Android Handsets Shipped Daily

Android invasion! In an announcement that serves to only further infuriate me, a man who cannot afford an android handset, Google’s just announced that 60,000 android enabled handsets are shipping daily. That’s 21.9 million handsets per year. The idea of a standardized, universal operating system for phones has long been a dream of the mobile consumer. [...more]

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Feb 19 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

Nexus One Moves “Only” 80,000 Units

The same Flurry mobile analytics team who estimated that the Nexus One sold 20,000 units in its first week has come back with first month numbers – 80,000 units sold. At first glance, these numbers aren’t great. The iPhone sold around 600,000 units in their first month, and the Droid recently moved about 525,000. But this [...more]

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Feb 10 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

Wolfram Alpha Updates Their $50 iPhone App

For those who don’t remember, Wolfram Alpha is a website that answers user questions by directly computing the answer, instead of crawling the web for the answer like a traditional search engine. They sell an iPhone app of their website that sells for…get this…FIFTY DOLLARS. Going to the Wolfram Alpha website? Free. Visiting the Wolfram Alpha [...more]

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Feb 09 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

Apple Bans The Word “Android” From The App Store

“Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?” could soon read, “Do ********s Dream Of Electric Sheep?” At least in the App store. Last week new regulations came down the pipe from Apple banning the word “Android” from being mentioned in any app descriptions. The culprit that caused the ban was Tim Novikov, whose “Flash of Genius” [...more]

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Feb 08 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos