Reports indicate that Apple has changed their view on thousands of iPhone Apps over the last couple of weeks, removing over 5,000 apps that have content that in some ways can be deemed as “overtly sexual”. Could sex be the downfall for Apple in the smartphone battle?

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.

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.

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.

A recent survey shows how iPod Touch owners are 80% more app addicted than iPhone owners, and it is the freebies that attract the iPod Touch users as iPhone owners on average download more paid apps. Find more interesting facts from the app download survey here.

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.

The mobile VoIP solution provider Vopium, which also has an iPhone application, recently announced that their service is now available in 25 new countries, including north and south America, Africa, Middle East, and Asia Pacific.
Vopium is now available in 45 countries, and the 25 new countries are: Argentina, Bahrain, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, […]

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.

Skype is spreading across the iPhone and iPod Touch community with full speed as a report indicate that 10% of all iPhone and iPod Touch users have the Skype App, making them one of the most popular applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

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.

The producer of the Stanza ebook application, Lexcycle, just recently announced that they had been taken over by Amazon, a move that might be positive for all parties as the combined knowledge of the companies could drive the ebook innovation further.

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.

Update 21st August 2009
Our Danish friends at Vopium just told us about this offer they are currently running giving double minutes on some of their packages. Here is what they had to say:
“Vopium new offer is now in place, “Reach out Package” gives 2000 minutes instead of 1000 minutes in same old price of 12.95 […]

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.

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.
The Amazon Kindle has been […]

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.

Are you looking for a reason to check out the iTunes App Store or buy an iPod Touch or an iPhone? How about we give you 20,000 reasons. Less than a month after the iTunes App Store reached the milestone of half a billion downloads and around 15,000 applications in the library, they have now announced that the iTunes App Store has hit 20,000 available applications.

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!

With the iTunes App Store having already reached half a billion downloaded applications after only 6 months of existence, and over 15,000 applications available through the iTunes App Store, it comes as no surprise that perhaps the most booming economy in 2009 will be the iPhone/iPod Touch Application development.

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.

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.

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.