For the second year running Vodafone is holding their best mobile app competition where this year the price pot is an incredible 1million euros, with the winner of the app competition raking in a well earned 100k euros for their efforts. Time is short so get your app in there!

The iTunes App Store has used less than 100 days to add another billion app dowloads, bringing the new total count to an impressive 3 billion since launch less than 18 months ago, and there are no signs that it is slowing down anytime soon.

Evil animals have broken into Santa’s grotto on the northpole and he needs help collecting all the presents for the children. Santa’s Sack is a simple, fun, and addictive game for the iPhone and iPod Touch that will keep you entertained for Christmas.

Orange has just launched their first ever iPhone app by bringing the Orange Wednesday experience to iPhone and iPod Touch owners in the UK. The app features functionality for getting the 2-for-1 deal codes as well as getting cinema listings and movie reviews.

The iTunes App Store can now officially say it has over 100,000 applications available to download for the iPhone and iPod Touch, but is it quantity over quality? We have looked at the growth of the iTunes App Store and how we use the growing number of apps.

Jamie Oliver brings his cooking skills to you directly on your iPhone with one of the best iPhone apps around, the Jamie 20 minute meals app. This app gives you 50 of Jamie’s favourite dishes with illustrated guides and shopping list integration that even i could follow.

It is rumored that Mozilla will be delivering an app for the iPhone and iPod Touch within the next few weeks, pending approval from Apple onto the iTunes App Store of course. It is still unknown whether we are talking about a mobile Firefox browser or another application.

As Apple announces the opening of in-app purchases for free iPhone and iPod Touch apps, we are asking what wider impact this might have on the app economy going forward. Will in-app purchases lead to higher cost for the most popular apps, or will it just improve the overall business model for everyone?

A recent tweet by Facebook iPhone App developer Joe Hewitt confirms that the popular Facebook App will soon come with a push notification upgrade, in upgrade Facebook 3.1. Before then however there will be a bug fix upgrade. Find out more about coming upgrades here.

I have always been a fan of the Tweetie App for the iPhone, and with the new Tweetie 2 App the best just got a lot better. If you are still using any other Twitter application for your iPhone or iPod Touch, i highly recommend you give Tweetie 2 a shot, as the new features are the best out there.

All fans of South Indian cinema will be glad to know that the largest circulating english magazine covering South Indian Cinema has released an iPhone App. The Galatta Cinema App brings you the magazine, including articles and images, directly to your iPhone for free.

At the recent FOWA conference in London Digg founder Kevin Rose revealed that they are working on an official Digg iPhone App. It was not an official announcement, but two bloggers attending the conference picked up that he was playing with the app on his iPhone.

This is the great new app from Five that provides you with live stream of UEFA Europe League matches featuring British teams such as Everton, Fulham and Celtic. Should you find yourself away from the television at match time you can now watch the game on your iPhone.

Apple and the iTunes App Store has reached another amazing milestone with over 2 billion downloaded applications worldwide, fueling the success of both their iPhone and iPod Touch, and the 85,000 or so applications available to download through the iTunes App Store.

Fancy your chances to earn money delivering photographs to global media? Now all you need on your way to becoming paparazzi is your iPhone and Photofame app. Photofame is the first app that allows you to send your own newsworthy photos to a leading global photoagency.

The much anticipated Facebook 3.0 upgraded app is now available to download to the iPhone and iPod Touch, featuring many new and improved functionality, such as better navigation, landscape view, add favourite friends shortcuts and more. We have looked at what they have delivered and what should come next.

One of the most important things to keep a training regime going is motivation, and sometimes we need a little help. There are some great applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch to help you achieve your goals and keep you motivated along the way. We have tested some of them and thought we would share our opinion with you.

Ebay Mobile has now upgraded their popular iPhone application to include push notifications, in-app payment through Paypal, and a few more goodies that we have all been asking for. They are also announcing that they are working on improving it further, so there is more to come.

iWound iPhone application brings the famous contemporary art magazine Wound to all iPhone and iPod Touch owners out there through iTunes App Store, packed full of great features on art, fashion, architecture and design from around the globe in an innovative presentation.

As Apple declined the Google Voice application the tech world are once again questioning the approval process of applications to the iTunes App Store, and is this charade starting to hurt the quality of apps available to us as iPhone owners? As always we have shared our opinion.

Recent information from iPhoneAppQuotes indicate that there is a shift in type of iPhone applications being developed to more business oriented apps, including medical, educational, business, and book applications as there is currently over 65,000 apps and 100,000 registered developers.

The popular music streaming service Spotify is now available to download from the iTunes App Store following weeks of discussion online about whether or not Apple would approve the app that could have an impact on Apple’s own iTunes music sales.

The MLB Baseball application At Bat is the first to start bringing live streaming video of sports games to iphone and iPod Touch owners out there through their premier MLB.tv service, but what is most interesting is the opportunities and challenges it creates on a global scale.

As Apple and the iTunes App Store celebrates the one year anniversary we have looked at what has gone well in the first year, what has been bad, and what are the challenges ahead to keep both developers and applications users happy.

If you are sitting on a great iPhone application idea but is lacking the development skills to develop it yourself and don’t have any close friends that can help you or big investment. Don’t worry as there are some new services developing that can help you still chase the iPhone App millionaire dream, such as the App Incubator.

The Tiger Woods PGA Tour App from Eletronic Arts shows what can happen when the big time game developers starts taking the iPhone and iPod Touch as a serious game platform - as this game of golf delivers good quality visual experience and the player and game controls that makes it into a challenging game of golf.

Want to join the band as a drummer but don’t own a drum set yet? Then you might want to check out the new vDrummer App for the iPhone and iPod Touch. vDrummer is both visually and functionality wise very well made as it allows you amongst other drum along to your favourite tunes on your iPod Touch or iPhone.

Developing applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch has already generated plenty of “rags to riches” stories in this modern day goldrush. And as Apple closes in on 1 billion downloaded applications through the iTunes App Store, thousands of new developers are chasing their dream - creating that next big application.

The iPhone and the iTunes App Store have very much been part of the revolution of change - change in terms of the way business is done, change in the way we communicate, and change in the distribution of products and services. This is the first in a series of looking at applications that are representing change.

This evening the Apple countdown towards 1 billion application download milestone stopped as they finally broke through the billion downloaded applications. We join the queue in congratulating Apple on the success of the iPhone, the iPod, and the iTunes App Store.

We have been waiting a few months for this and finally Skype has launched the official Skype Application for the iPhone and iPod Touch, now available to download from the iTunes App Store featuring all the lovely functionality that we have grown accustomed to from Skype.

Nimbuzz is a free mobile social messenger application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that is available to download from the iTunes App Store, providing instant messaging and VOiP across such popular platforms as Skype, Live Messenger, Yahoo messenger, ICQ, Google Talk, AIM, as well as social networks such as Facebook and MySpace.

iSendMMS is the latest application for the iPhone from Swedish company Mobispine that brings MMS functionality to the iPhone, although it is currently only operational in Sweden, but the company is in talks with other operators and Apple to bring it worldwide.

iTunes App Store reaches another milestone with over 27,000 apps available to download, including over 6,200 games, but future might be more challenging as competition increases with some experts predicting Android smartphones to outstrip the iPhone in sales by 2012.

After a couple of days or rest and recreation better known as weekend i am back and looking at what has happened in the world of iPhone apps in the last week, including the news about a new Rogue App store opening for business for those with a jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch.

Last night a new and useful application was launched on the iTunes App Store as Amazon launched their Kindle book reader application for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and it can be downloaded for free,unless you live in the UK in which case you will have to wait a bit longer.
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10 years ago many would propably thought that this was as distant as Star Trek itself, but now you can get episodes of the popular show straight to your iPhone or iPod Touch with the new Tv.com application from CBS - Beam me up Scottie!

Great news for all Tiger Woods fans, he is coming back from injury to save the PGA Tour, and EA Mobile is working on Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 for the iPhone and iPod Touch with expected release date sometime this summer, and featuring some heavy 3D graphics that will utilize and display the iPhone as gaming platform to the max.

It was just a question of time before palm reading came to the iPhone and the iPod Touch and the first ones to deliver it is iCOOLgeeks with their palmReader 1.0, an palm reading simulation application that will tell you your future. Question is, do you trust the iPhone to predict your future?

This is the second part of our look into the evolving business model of the iPhone and iPod Touch Apps were we cover the latest usage trends of iPhone apps and discuss one new application that could potentially represent a change in the distribution model of digital music.

As we are increasingly starting to see iPhone App developers making millions on their applications through the iTunes App Store on single sales at a value of often less than £1/$1 one has to ask the question as to how sustainable their business model is, and how long it will take before one can start charging for upgrades to the applications.

Although it is difficult to argue that South Park is not offensive occassionaly (read: most times), it is difficult to understand why that is a good argument for rejecting the South Park iPhone application from Apple as they are currently selling season 1-12 of the show on iTunes as well as the movie. Why has Apple killed Kenny?

At the Mobile World Congress in Spain earlier this week Yahoo announced that they are also joining the growing number of iPhone/iPod Touch applications with their own Yahoo iPhone app, following on in the footsteps of their main rival Google which has been in the iPhone App market since it first launched.

The iPhone and iPod Touch has now turned into a problem for the casinos around the world, as like taken straight out of one of the Oceans ‘many’ movies, applications that help you count cards in blackjack are now available to download from the iTunes App Store creating headache for gambling regulators in Las Vegas and other gambling capitols.

Pass the Bomb is the latest iPhone App/game from UK based iFantastic which in its simplicity could be a hit on iTunes App Store among partyers worldwide as it works perfectly as a fun, entertaining, and perhaps a bit simple drinking game, which sometimes comes in handy when the drinks are taking over your thinking powers!

The latest iPod Touch application that will allow you to make calls and texting, just like on the iPhone, is the Jajah App. Jajah joins the likes of Fring and Truphone in providing calling and texting for the iPod Touch 2G, giving users access to Skype when online.

The iPhone/iPod Touch which is so fittingly called “Hammer Time” is the ultimate Mc Hammer fan application where you can follow the once popular artists latest activities, including upcoming events and concerts in your area, watch videos and follow the artists tweets.

Not long after Apple declined the much discussed iBoob application because it was deemed to be indecent as it was geared towards a spesific part of a womans anatomy, they have now approved the Wobble animation application for the iPhone and iPod Touch, that also lets you wobble boobs.

This is the iPhone and iPod Touch application that all creative souls have been waiting for. The Brushes Application is the latest addition to the iTunes App Store that allows you to explore your creative side by generating paintings/images right there on your iPod Touch or iPhone screen.

Talk Radio is the iPhone/iPod Touch application from Juicy Development, that will be streaming the inauguration of Barack Obama as the next US President live, covering the historic event of the first African American to serve as President of the United States.

There are now over 15,000 applications available for iPhone and iPod Touch users to download, and growing every day in all categories, from games to business applications. This has so far resulted in over half a billion downloaded applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Some would say that it was just a matter of time before Apple would have to open up their iPhone and iPod Touch to competitor applications, such as other web browsers than the Safari browser that comes with the iPhone and iPod Touch. Well the wait seems to be over as reports are coming in that third party browsers such as the free Edge browser and WebMate tabbed browser are now available from the iTunes App Store.

This is the classic game that people have used to resolve personal feuds and conflicts for ages and a sure fire solution to resolving any discussion in a fair way; Rock Paper Scissors have arrived on the iPod Touch and iPhone through the Rochambeau application from the people at Zerion Software.

With the knowledge that the iPod Touch was one of the top stocking fillers this Christmas and reports from Google that searches related to the Apple iPod Touch has gone through the roof since morning Christmas day, we thought we would share our list of favorite iPod Touch Apps and free iPod Touch games.

The web video service Joost, brainchild of the people behind Skype and Kazaa, is the latest application to be launched for the iPhone and iPod Touch delivering tv shows and other tv entertainment over Wi-Fi. Tv entertainment on the iPhone and iPod Touch is a fast growing market

Barfly is a GPS enabled travel guide that will help you find the best bars and clubs around the globe based on your location. If you find yourself in for example New York, Paris, Tokyo, or perhaps Havana and want to find the ultimate Mojito, Barfly will guide you to the hottest places to be seen and enjoy a good drink and music.

Those of you who are used to writing emails on the iPhone or the iPod Touch all know that it is not necessarily a quick and easy task. Don’t get me wrong, it is user friendly and functional, but can be a bit time consuming. The new release of Wide Email 2.0 from LizzardWerks could be a solution for just that.

iPass is one of the worlds leading providers of mobility services used by many of the largest companies in the world, and has now launched an iPhone/iPod Touch application that gives you one click access to more than 100,000 commercial hotspots from over 100 Wi-Fi providers worldwide.

The latest shopping application to reach the iPhone and iPod Touch market comes from no other than leading online retailer Amazon.com and is set to give users one click access to purchase thousands of products and includes their innovative new feature “Amazon Remembers”.

The update to the Google mobile application for the iPhone and iPod Touch featuring voice search has been much talked about over the last week, and now it is finally here and available for downloading at the Apple Application Store.

How about a trip to see the seven wonders of the world on the commute back from work or during a slightly boring university lecture. Now you can with the newly relased Google Earth application for the iPhone and the iPod Touch on free download.

Good news for everyone that has been waiting on news about Skype being available on the new 2nd generation iPod Touch and the iPhone - Fring to the rescue with the first VOiP application supporting Skype calls.

The Obama presidential campaign have moved their focus into the world of iPhone applications launching a brand new application that will allow followers and volunteers to get in contact with each other and stay up to date on all the campaign news.

Apple can announce that over 60 million applications have been downloaded so far from their new iPhone Application Store, and information that sales from their App Store could reach $1 billion.

According to The Telegraph software developers have found piece of code buried in the iPhone OS that could enable Apple to delete third party applications on your iPhone.

Phantom Fish has now released their RSS news reader Byline that allows you to browse and read your Google Reader feeds while offline on your iPhone and iPod Touch.
Even when there is no internet connection Byline will allow  you to read your updated news feeds in full, meaning full offline access to web page. According […]